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Raiders of the Norse Largs
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LARGS is famous for its views across the Clyde estuary and the
islands of Bute and Cumbrae just offshore, as well as for Nardini's
ice-cream.
It is also home to a significant part of Scotland's Viking
heritage, which is celebrated this weekend as part of the annual
Largs Viking Festival.
The festival, which ends tomorrow, commemorates the Battle of
Largs - more of a skirmish, really - between Viking raiders and the
Scottish defenders in 1263. Late in the summer of that year, King
Haakon IV of Norway sailed into the Firth of Clyde in a large ship
complete with dragon's head. At that time, he ...
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