Degsastan, battle of

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Degsastan, battle of, 603. This was apparently a very severe defeat for Ædan, king of Dalriada, at the hands of Æthelfrith of Northumbria. The site of the battle is usually taken to be at Dawston Rigg, near Saughtree in Liddesdale. Bede, writing some 130 years afterwards, declared that ‘almost all his army was cut to pieces’ and that ‘no Irish king in Britain’ had dared to make war on the English since.

J. A. Cannon

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