What the records say
- When
- 875
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 56.16° N, 3.67° W
- Description
- fought in 875 at Dollar, Scotland
Battle of Dollar
Battle between Scottish and Viking forces (875 AD)
The Battle of Dollar was fought in 875 at Dollar, Scotland, between Viking invaders under Halfdan Ragnarsson and the defenders led by King Constantine I. The Vikings had previously been part of the Great Heathen Army which had been assaulting the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England before moving to a base by the river Tyne to raid the lands of the Picts and Strathclyde Britons.
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- Wikidata: battles and siegesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Battle of Dollar: Invading Danish Vikings defeat the Scots and the Picts, under King Constantine I, at Dollar”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Битва при Долларе между захватчиками из Дании под предводительством ярла Торстейна Рыжего и шотландским войском, возглавляемым королём Константином I.”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page