The Gaels gave Scotland its name from 'Scoti', a racially ... At the heart of the Gaelic kingdom – Dál Riata – was a formidable hill fort. The rocky outcrop of Dunadd, Argyll, was far more ...

Ida was the warlord who carved out the northern-most Anglian kingdom, Bernicia ... and Anglian power finally crumbled in Scotland when Malcolm II defeated the Northumbrians at the Battle of ...