"Big Red" wrote in message
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> Norse attack the Irish, in the north (easiet part to access). The
> battle is fierce, and eventually, a truce immerges. Irish nobles submit
> to the Norse King, but Irish lands remain unpillaged. Meanwhile, the
> norse minority is assimalted, and Ireland is reunited.
> Bound by religon, the norse send their armies, and the Picts and Scotts
> join the Irish for reasons of faith and common background (Celtic).
If we're talking about hundreds of years after the original Norse invasion
then it's too late to be talking about Picts and Scotti. Due to Norse power
down the Hebrides the power of Dalriada (Scotti) was lost and they were
being forced inland. Pictish power had also been defeated by the Norse, and
in the ensuing chaos the two peoples came together in a new Gaelic entity
called Alba (Scotland).
I think the closes thing to a pan-Celtic movement came much later in the
reign of Robert the Bruce. The Scots invaded Ireland in an attempt to break
English power there and at least some Irish accepted Edward Bruce as King of
Ireland. Noises were made about an invasion of Wales too though it came to
nothing.
Allan
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