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The dubh gall in southern Scotland: the politics of Northumbria, Dublin, and the Community of St Cuthbert in the Viking Age, c. 870-950 CE
Shane McLeod
University of Stirling
The wide-ranging interests of the Scandinavians who controlled Dublin from 851, known as the dubh gall (and later the Uí Ímair), have been noted by some scholars. At various times they are thought to have controlled or exercised some form of over-lordship over the Kingdom of Northumbria, northern Wales, and southern Scotland, including the Kingdom of Strathclyde.
Although evidence from present-day northern England and southern Scotland are often assessed separately, it is important to note that much of southern Scotland was part of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Northumbria up to c. 950 CE. It is argued in this paper that the political interests of Scandinavian kings of York (members of the dubh gall/Uí Ímair), often aligned with the Archbishop of York and the Community of St Cuthbert, explains much of the evidence of Scandinavian burial and settlement.
Although it is commonplace to use modern political boundaries to demarcate regions for study, this does not always reflect the political realities of earlier periods.
For example, it needs to be remembered that during the early Viking Age ‘Scotland’ did not yet exist, and that southern Scotland was part of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria.
1 At the start of the Viking Age Northumbria stretched as far north as the River Forth in eastern and central Scotland, encompassing the current council areas of the Scottish Borders, East Lothian, Midlothian, West Lothian, and City of Edinburgh. It also included Dumfries and Galloway in Scotland’s south-west and South Ayrshire and most of East Ayrshire further north.
2 The ninth-century Scandinavian conquest and settlement of Northumbria had a large impact on those parts which are now in England in terms of such things as political control, onomastics, and art-styles, particularly in the area around York and in what is now Cumbria.3 Although a Scandinavian impact on the very north of Northumbria, what is now southern Scotland, was not as pronounced it has been noted by scholars previously: it is most obviously seen in place-names, and recent archaeological finds have added significantly to our knowledge. Although not part of Northumbria, this paper will also include evidence from Midross in Argyll in the former Kingdom of Strathclyde, which may have been under Scandinavian domination for part of the Viking Age.
Shane McLeod
University of Stirling
The wide-ranging interests of the Scandinavians who controlled Dublin from 851, known as the dubh gall (and later the Uí Ímair), have been noted by some scholars. At various times they are thought to have controlled or exercised some form of over-lordship over the Kingdom of Northumbria, northern Wales, and southern Scotland, including the Kingdom of Strathclyde.
Although evidence from present-day northern England and southern Scotland are often assessed separately, it is important to note that much of southern Scotland was part of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Northumbria up to c. 950 CE. It is argued in this paper that the political interests of Scandinavian kings of York (members of the dubh gall/Uí Ímair), often aligned with the Archbishop of York and the Community of St Cuthbert, explains much of the evidence of Scandinavian burial and settlement.
Although it is commonplace to use modern political boundaries to demarcate regions for study, this does not always reflect the political realities of earlier periods.
For example, it needs to be remembered that during the early Viking Age ‘Scotland’ did not yet exist, and that southern Scotland was part of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria.
1 At the start of the Viking Age Northumbria stretched as far north as the River Forth in eastern and central Scotland, encompassing the current council areas of the Scottish Borders, East Lothian, Midlothian, West Lothian, and City of Edinburgh. It also included Dumfries and Galloway in Scotland’s south-west and South Ayrshire and most of East Ayrshire further north.
2 The ninth-century Scandinavian conquest and settlement of Northumbria had a large impact on those parts which are now in England in terms of such things as political control, onomastics, and art-styles, particularly in the area around York and in what is now Cumbria.3 Although a Scandinavian impact on the very north of Northumbria, what is now southern Scotland, was not as pronounced it has been noted by scholars previously: it is most obviously seen in place-names, and recent archaeological finds have added significantly to our knowledge. Although not part of Northumbria, this paper will also include evidence from Midross in Argyll in the former Kingdom of Strathclyde, which may have been under Scandinavian domination for part of the Viking Age.