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Challenging the traditional assumptions about the nature of Viking settlements in the Inner Hebrides, this book aims to stimulate the debate on what happened in Islay 1,200 years ago, when Viking settlers from Norway clashed with the indigenous Scots of Dal Riada. The Hebridean island of Islay is well known for its whisky, its wildlife, and its association with the MacDonald Lords of the Isles. There would seem to be little reason to dwell on its fate at the hands of the marauding Northmen during the Viking Age. Despite a pivotal location on the sea road from Norway to Ireland, there are no convincing records of the Vikings ever having been there. In recent years, historians have been keen to marginalize the island s Viking experience, choosing instead to focus on the enduring stability of native Celtic culture, and tracing the island s modern Gaelic traditions back in an unbroken chain to the dawn of the Christian era. With no written accounts to go by, the real story of Islay s Viking Age has to be read from another type of course material: the silent witness of the names and local places. "The Vikings in Islay" presents a detailed historical-philological survey and systematic review of approximately 240 of the island s farm and nature names. The conclusions drawn turn traditional assumptions on their head. The romance of Islay s names, it seems, masks a harrowing tale of invasion, apartheid, and ethnic cleansing."

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