Summary of Alistair Moffat's Arthur and the Lost Kingdoms

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#1 I found that the names of places in the Scottish Borders were a rich source for the history of Kelso and the Scottish Borders. My dad knew the land around Kelso intimately, and we talked a lot about change and how it could obliterate history.

#2 I am a Moffat, first from western Berwickshire, earlier from Dumfriesshire. I know this place. The landscape of the Scottish Border country is part of me, and I am proud of it.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Sep 12, 2022
• ISBN: 9798350001235

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Insights on Alistair Moffat's Arthur and the Lost Kingdoms

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I found that the names of places in the Scottish Borders were a rich source for the history of Kelso and the Scottish Borders. My dad knew the land around Kelso intimately, and we talked a lot about change and how it could obliterate history.

#2

I am a Moffat, first from western Berwickshire, earlier from Dumfriesshire. I know this place. The landscape of the Scottish Border country is part of me, and I am proud of it.

Insights from Chapter 2

#1

The Kelso Liber is a collection of 562 documents or charters written by the monks of Kelso Abbey. They describe important places, a busy economy, and great wealth gifted to the Church. King David I moved the Tironensian monks from his Forest of Selkirk to Kelso so that he could concentrate economic, military, administrative, and spiritual power in one place.

#2

The town of Berwick-upon-Tweed was the main exit point and trading post for the raw wool shipped out to the primitive cloth factories of Flanders and the Rhine estuary. The colonies of Flemings and Germans were settled in the town in the early twelfth century.

#3

The Tironensians arrived in the Borders from France, and they would have understood little of what local people had to say to them. As members of the French-speaking ruling élite imported into Scotland by David I, that may not have mattered much.

#4

The Old Welsh names of Scotland were discarded as English speakers made these places their own. But what this process of renaming also showed me was that the Old Welsh language culture was near the surface.

#5

The history of my native place, Kelso, revealed to me that through