High Kings And Vikings: Nigel Tranter

As Christendom approached the first Millennium, conflict and war prevailed throughout a troubled Scotland. The population was under constant threat from the bloody Viking raids and the High Kings of the Scots came and went, their brief reigns usually coming to a violent end. In 995, young Cormac mac Farquhar, newly succeeding his father as Thane of Glamis, is reluctantly involved in the misfortunes of the reigning monarch, Kenneth II and the ensuing national chaos. But Cormas did not know that out of this legacy of hatred, he would find unexpected happiness.