Were the Scots Irish?(migration theory, Scotland and Ireland, historical research)(Illustration)

From: Antiquity | Date: June 1, 2001| Author: | Copyright information

The traditional historical account of the origin of the Scottish kingdom states that the Scots founded the early kingdom of Dal Riata in western Scotland in the early 6th century, having migrated there from northeastern Antrim, Ireland. In the process they displaced a native Pictish or British people from an area roughly equivalent to the modern county of Argyll. Later, in the mid 9th century, these Scots of Dal Riata took over the Pictish kingdom of eastern Scotland to form the united kingdom of Alba, later to become known as Scotland. To the classical authors of late antiquity, ...

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