We have context for this btw! The *Life of Margaret*, an Anglo-Latin biography of Máel Coluim III's queen, says that the king customarily donated gold coins to the church at mass, coins that would have come from the Islamic world or Byzantium. Was such the practice of his sons too?
June 9: Feast of Colum Cille (Columba) (†597), founder-abbot of Iona. Irishman who anointed Áedán mac Gabráin as king of Dál Riata, preached to ‘the tribes of Tay’, became apostle of the northern Picts and reputedly banished a monster from the River Ness. 📸Bodleian Libraries
Today, finally, the UK publication of the paperback version of *Máel Coluim III, 'Canmore: An Eleventh-Century Scottish King* with John Donald/ @birlinn.bsky.social
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Officially released TODAY!!!
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With Scotland v Morocco coming up, here is an 11th-century connection. About the time the Almoravid ruler Yusuf ibn Tashfin cofounded Marrakesh, the Scottish king Máel Coluim III founded a monastery at Monymusk. And there, in modern times, a gold dinar from Marrakesh, minted c.1097, has been found!
With Scotland v Morocco coming up, here is an 11th-century connection. About the time the Almoravid ruler Yusuf ibn Tashfin cofounded Marrakesh, the Scottish king Máel Coluim III founded a monastery at Monymusk. And there, in modern times, a gold dinar from Marrakesh, minted c.1097, has been found!
Paperback of the Malkie book, it's finally here (although arriving a bit earlier than expected)!
Paperback of the Malkie book, it's finally here (although arriving a bit earlier than expected)!
Pterōtón Stratópedon, 'Winged Camp', on a 13th-century Byzantine map(ping of Ptolemy) of Scotland. Suggested identifications have included Burghead and Inchtuthil. The visualization of the fortifications are something else!
Pterōtón Stratópedon, 'Winged Camp', on a 13th-century Byzantine map(ping of Ptolemy) of Scotland. Suggested identifications have included Burghead and Inchtuthil. The visualization of the fortifications are something else!
