The Origins Of Scotland
Dan Snow's History Hit
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Are You Always Expecting a Viking Raid?
port mahomac was never documented. It doesn't show up in any of the irish sources. So we only know that there was a catastrophic burning event there from the archaeology. But it's an outlier because it's the only one of these monasteries, documented or otherwise, that has anything like that. Clear evidence for a big burning event. That doesn't mean that it was a viking raid. Of course, other people were committing violence and atro s, even against monasteries. We have that well documented in ireland, from the late eighth century especially. And i'm sure scotland is no exception. In terms of the archaeology of a
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