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Wood or church? Deciphering the place-name 'Kilbuiack'
In which I try to figure out if a now-lost Moray place-name is relevant to my research.
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Sicut rivulus descendit in Massat: A lost Pictish cultic site?
In which I ponder the significance of a lost river confluence mentioned in a twelfth-century charter of Kinloss Abbey
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'Tubernafein': A folkloric, literary or historical place-name?
In which I investigate how a lost well in Moray might have got its intriguing name.
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Where are Scotland’s early medieval water mills?
In which I try to find any evidence at all for water-mills in northern Scotland prior to 1150
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An early mention of Sueno’s Stone in the Historia Regum Britanniae?
In which I examine Alex Woolf’s idea that Sueno’s Stone makes a cameo appearance in Geoffrey of Monmouth’s twelfth-century History of the Kings of Britain.
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Does Sueno’s Stone record the battle of Sigurd the Powerful and Máel Brigte ‘Tooth’?
In which I examine W.F. Skene’s suggestion that Sueno’s Stone records a legendary ninth-century battle.
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Did ‘vikings’ conquer Moray in the 9th century?
Or was it a twelfth-century geographical misunderstanding?
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Bell, broch or bloomery? Deciphering the ‘tower-like object’ on Sueno’s Stone
In which I consider an intriguing theory about a key element of the stone’s battle iconography
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Was there an earlier Pictish monastery on the Kinloss Abbey site?
In which I test Neil McGuigan’s theory that there was an early medieval monastery near to—and connected with—Sueno’s Stone
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What can the Pillar of Eliseg tell us about Sueno's Stone?
In which I think about analysing Sueno's Stone using techniques applied with great success to the ninth-century Pillar of Eliseg in north Wales
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In civitate Nrurím: A medieval place-name mystery
In which I examine three theories about where king Áed mac Cináeda died in 878 AD