Vikings War Of Clans Stronghold
Boone Southern
Vikings: War of Clans is a strategy massively multiplayer online game developed and published by Plarium. The game is free-to-play though certain features are available for players to buy.
In Vikings: War of Clans, players have to cooperate with each other to create their own clan. Each clan has a ruling hierarchy from a ranker to the chief, and each player has their corresponding authority extent.[3]
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New competitions have been implemented into the game, which allows you to fight and become the king of the entire land. Players have to travel to the kingdom of Jotunheim to compete in the legendary competition.
Players can team up into groups that can contain up to 100-125 persons (depending on the strength of the clan and their stronghold) united by a single clan name, shield, regulations, and management structure. Players create clans to achieve collective goals such as capturing the Place of Power, taking part in clan competitions and helping clan members to develop.[5]
In creating the game, the development team used information from articles and books about the Scandinavian Peninsula's history, and from television shows and movies depicting war marches and the day-to-day life of the Vikings, as well as other sources containing info on early medieval Scandinavia.[6]
For the theory to have any substance it needs to fit with the circumstances of the period. In this regard it does not seem too preposterous. Everything we know, or can guess, about 10th-century Strathclyde suggests that the kingdom developed close links with several Viking powers. Relations in the previous century had been dominated by a significant event in 870: the destruction of Alt Clut, the ancient capital of the Clyde kings at Dumbarton Rock, by a Viking force from Dublin. By the early 900s, however, these two erstwhile foes were getting along much better. Alliances were forged and combined military expeditions were undertaken, often in co-operation with Scottish kings against mutual enemies in England. Dynastic marriages between the Strathclyde royal family and the Scandinavian dynasties of Dublin and York probably sealed a few of these political agreements. When the last Viking kings of York were expelled by the English in the middle of the 10th century, it is quite possible that some of their henchmen sought sanctuary with the Clyde Britons. This would, at least, provide a plausible context for the Scandinavian-style hogback tombstones at Govan, the main centre of political and religious power in Strathclyde.
Tim, I like this theory. I think its worth working on. Perhaps they were considered Irish or British because of their native language that may have continued as an accept into later times. Its not hard to imagine that a Viking warrior would join the retinue of a Strathclyde king, be given a local wife, and be given land where they became among the trusted retainers of the king. Children would probably be proud of their mixed ancestry from a high ranking local woman and a Viking who gained local respect.
I imagine the show of hands at Traquair House would also be mirrored 1000 years ago. Ethnic identities were probably just as blurred back then, at least in the upper levels of society where there was more scope to seek opportunities outside the area of origin.
Re: Wallace and the origins of his name. I lean towards the view that the family came originally from Wales and already had this name (given by the English) when they came to Scotland as Anglo-Norman knights.
Living on the northwest coast of scotland the viking connection is still visible in place and family names. The norse continued to hold sway in the isles until the Treaty of Perth, the battle of Largs being inconclusive but setting the scene for the absorption of the isles under the control of the scottish crown.
It is also possible that certain parts of the isles had a tradition of pirating before the norse arrived and that wider pirating opportunity without the ensuing repercussions made possible under norse overlordship would make alliance with the norse a very attractive proposition to the local gaels.
It was often complained in later times that Mhic Nail of Barra was nothing other than a pirate, old habits dying slowly perhaps. Indeed after 1746 it was felt more expedient that the now rebel MacNeil should be persuaded to accept the peace offering on the table rather than try to winkle him out from his island stronghold by force. This provides some understanding of the security these islands afforded if the then mighty royal navy, the dominant world naval power of the time, would rather sue for peace rather than loose their cannon. Castle bay is well named in that regard.
Camus na Gall (shore dwelling of the foreigners), is one local name that is held up as a place name indicating a one time viking presence. It can be found on OS 33 and is a bay on the southern shore of lochalsh just out of the main current pull of the Kyle Rhea narrows. I think it such a handy spot to await a favorable tide that it was no doubt used by vikings and may even have been held by them for a time, controlling a significant coastal route as it does and affording the possibility to beach boats.
It would also be a handy ambush base from which to pirate shipping heading north out of the narrows, as any aspirant pirate would be out of sight until the last moment. So this name appears to point to a possible viking presence termed in gaelic rather than a norse name taken into gaelic, as is the norm up and down the coast here.
Having said that it is equally likely that the bay was used by travelers and traders over the years to the extent that it was simply termed as such to indicate their presence, and only later acquiring a specific viking association.
Thanks for these encouraging words, Jon. While drafting the post I hesitated at several points, wondering if it was too speculative even for the blogosphere, but the response has been quite positive so far.
Aware that Camus Na Gall, if dealt with in that volume (Camus Na Gall, technically, is not located within the county of Ross-Shire), would be on the extreme geographical limit of the region covered. I was pleased then to find that it had been included in the chapter covering Glensheil.
The name of the island associated with them on Loch Lomond however is named: Inchgalbraith (island of the foreign britains, termed in gaelic in an area where both languages would have been current at one time, and one can well imagine the conversation on a high pass over looking the loch from the west where the land marks are being pointed out and named), could it be that the Gall element in the family name is simply taken from their association with the island thus named?
Cambuswallace, nearby, or Cambuskenneth down stream on the Forth at Stirling would suggest that river transport was a feature of the district and that Camus was a term associated with business on the rivers here.
Discussions on this with Dr. Alan James were revived in the summer of 2010 and it became clear that one should not think of Galbraith as a family but a ethnic group. I then noted this to my fellow Kincaid researchers (see -07/1279470439).
All in all, I certainly concur that Viking Briton is plausible. Kincaids, taking their name from lands granted to one of these Britons (and more likely than any of being directly descended from him) have been shown to have DNA common to the area where some of the Vikings came from.
Thank you for your reply. Kincaid is recognized as a Clan, but this is a modern creation. I documented this clearly at: Kyncades was formed by myself to document our real history. The site for this is at
Similar discussions with Dr. Alan James led to the conclusion that Kincaid was a tract or territory of land with parcels being labelled with the same meaning (wood head), but in the language of the time it was allocated. Kincaid was first and derives from the Brittonic pen-ced, but has a Gaelic influence. Next came the portion known as Kinkell which is its full Gaelic equivalent (deriving from ceann [na] coille). Last came the residue known as the Lennox estate of Woodhead (deriving from the Scots wuidheid).
Anyone who thinks southwest Loch Lomond was a region of Highland clans has Gaelic biases. This was once the heart of Briton territory with the once fortress of the Britons being only five miles from the south end of Loch Lomond. Above the north side of Loch Lomond was a marker believed to have been to noted the border of the Briton kingdom. This was all clearly Briton lands. Certainly Highlanders later moved in, but this was first Briton territory.
In an anonymous history of the Galbraiths of the Lennox, dated 1944, Gilchrist is not mentioned as the patriarch of the Galbraiths. From what I have seen, Gilchrist Bretnach has been added since. Gilchrist Bretnach was simply the name of a witness to the gift of Moybothelbeg (Maybole beg), etc. to Melrose Abbey in 1193. I do not recall seeing any tradition or records linking him to the Galbraiths of the Lennox.
It seems to me the notion of the Galbraiths being a highland or Gaelic clan is a myth created by clan enthusiasts; just like with the Kincaids (see my article touching the Kincaid myth at ). The genesis of this seems to be the 1944 article in which the author states:
At the moment, I cannot see where the presumed connection between Gilchrist and the Galbraiths originates. On the POMS database of Scottish charters the ancestor of the Galbraiths is identified as Gillespic Galbrait, nephew/grandson of Earl Alwin c.1200.
Last year, I pointed out to a Glasgow archaeologist an interesting site on the edge of the Kincaid lands. It is a hill at Carlston and its Google map reference is 55.949873,-4.191027. On the Ordnance survey maps the hill is noted as Castle Hill. There is no written record of a castle there so one would have to look prior to the 14th century. Aerial imagery does indicate significant debris or rubble there. Nearby is supposed to be a cairn. This location has excellent sight lines and certainly is a strategic place for an ancient fortress protecting the eastern approaches to Dumbarton. It would be nice to see some field work done there someday.
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