The Highland Battles: Warfare on Scotland's Northern Frontier in the Early Middle Ages

This in-depth history of medieval Scottish warfare highlights the rivalries between the Norse warlords and the early Scottish kings.

Between the ninth and fourteenth centuries, Scotland's northern and western highlands underwent a turbulent period of significant wars. The Highlands and islands were controlled by the kings of Norway or by Norse or Norse-Celtic warlords, who not only resisted Scottish royal authority but on occasion seemed likely to overthrow it.

In The Highland Battles, Chr...