…THE MAID OF NORWAY
Jun 13, 2020
2 minutes
he sudden death in 1286 of Alexander III – fatally thrown from his horse during a night-time ride along the Fife coast – is usually viewed as the starting-point for the Wars of Independence, the long series of conflicts with England that dominated Scottish history until the mid-14th century at least. But in a more immediate sense, Alexander’s demise also signalled the brief emergence onto the
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