Thursday, March 12, 2020

On the Battle of Largs 1263

This is battle that very few people have heard of and, while no, it isn't as important as Stalingrad, Gettysburg, Hastings, Waterloo, Thermopylae, Tours, Somme, or Normandy, it's certainly of great importance to the people of Scotland in that it was this battle that finally helped end the nearly 500 years of Viking rule in the Scottish highlands and its surrounding island chains. And, while, yes, a lot of the Norwegians stayed in Scotland after the treaty was complete, the fact that most of them seamlessly assimilated into Scottish society while contributing to it immensely actually made Scotland a much richer place............until that is the British came, which we'll save for another time.  

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