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Dalriada: The Land of the First Scots |
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However, relations with the new neighbours were not always friendly, particularly during the reign of King Aedan mac Gabhrain. 
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Aedan, the great grandson of Fergus, was crowned overking of Dalriada in 573, by no less a person than St Columba - a huge PR triumph for Aedan, giving his reign an extra symbolism that no pretender could hope to match, and also perhaps, sending out a signal to the neighbouring kingdoms that he had God, and certainly the head of the Celtic Church, on his side.
Aedan intended to expand the Dalriadan kingdom by force, and launched raids on surrounding territories, even as far away as the Isle of Man and the Orkney Islands. However, the Scots were crushed by the Angles at the Battle of Degsastan in 603 and, in Ireland, by the Ui Neills at the Battle of Mag Rath in 637.
By the middle of the 8th Century the Picts were the pre-eminent kingdom in the land. They had defeated the Angles of Northumbria in 685 and the Scots in 741. So how did the Scots come to be the dominant force in the country?
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