Of Kings and A Saint

De: Tom Gauthier

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

“Of Kings and A Saint”
The tale of how a tiny group of people calling themselves the Scoti were led by Fergus Mor macErc north from Ireland to Argyll, settling and establishing their kingdom of Dál Riata, and becoming, over one-thousand-two hundred-years later, the kingdom of all Scotland, is a tale worth telling.
Long before the Scoti emerged, small Celtic tribes followed nomadic herds across the land bridge of Doggerland from the continent of Europe, eventually settling this island, the size of the U.S. state of South Carolina. Then the seas rose and, now isolated, they began to build a civilization that would have an outsized impact on the history of peoples from the Vikings of Norðrvegr to the Angles and Saxons of Englaland, from the Franks of Gaul to the Visigoths of Hispania, and beyond.
Written in the genre of Historical Fiction, breathing life into our ancestors, the tale “Of Kings and A Saint” follows the lives of selected rulers through the tumultuous times between the 9th and 13th centuries, from Kenneth MacAlpin to King Malcolm III and his wife Queen Margaret Ætheling – who would become Saint Margaret of Scotland.
Witness the treacherous assassinations of Pict nobles by the Scoti king MacAlpin. Stand with the nine year old Malcolm as he watches his father, King Duncan I of Alba, die of battle wounds inflicted by the treacherous Macbeth. Then live the bloody clash of the grown Malcolm and Macbeth, fought to regain the kingdom of Alba, and follow the life of Malcolm through marriage with a Viking noblewoman, clashes with the Norman Duke William during his conquest of England, burying a wife and finding Margaret of Hungary who would bear him eight children – all impacting the history and future.
This is the little known story of how Scotland became Scotland. There was a time before clans and kilts, before the great Castle of Edinburgh, and it is filled with all the romance, treachery, tears and laughter, battles and tenderness that define a history of a unique and great people.
“Of Kings and A Saint” will not disappoint those who seek to know more about their flesh and blood ancestors. Written to entertain, evoking emotion, and to educate, evoking curiosity to learn more, this is “Of Kings and A Saint” by the International Award winning novelist, Tom Gauthier.