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Somerled
and the Emergence of Gaelic Scotland
~John Marsden      

  
The author assembles, evaluates and interprets the full spectrum of evidence - from Scottish and Manx chroniclers, Irish annalists and Gaelic tradition-bearers - for Somerled's life and legend. Individual chapters investigate his emergence in the forefront of the Gaelic-Norse aristocracy of the western seaboard, his part in Gaeldom's challenge to the Canmore kings of Scots, his war on the Manx king of the Isles, his importance for the church on Iona, and his extraordinary invasion of the Clyde which was cut short by his violent death at Renfrew in 1164.

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