title: The Borders: A History of the Borders from Earliest Times
author:  Alistair Moffat 
description: This is the story of the border: a place of beginnings and endings, of differences and similarities. It is the story of England and Scotland, told not from the remoteness of London or Edinburgh or in the tired terms of national histories, but up close and personal, toe to toe and eyeball to eyeball across the tweed, the Cheviots, the Esk and the tidal races of the upper Solway. This is a tale told in blood, fun and granite-hard memory. This is the story of an ancient place; where hunter-gatherers penetrated into the virgin interior, where Celtic warlords ruled, the Romans came but could not conquer, where the glittering kingdom of Northumbria thrived, the place where David MacMalcolm raised great abbeys, where the border rivers rode into history, and where Walter Scott sat at Abbotsford and brooded on the area's rich and historic legacy.
zlib_text: Crossing Borders in the  
  Insular Middle Ages
  
  Previously published volumes in this series are listed at the back of the book.
  Volume 30
  MEDIEVAL TEXTS AND CULTURES OF NORTHERN EUROPE
  General Editor
  Rory Naismith, Kings College, London
  Editorial Board
   Elizabeth Boyle, Maynooth University 
  Sharon Kinoshita, University of California, Santa Cruz 
  Carolyne Larrington, University of Oxford 
  Erik Niblaeus, Durham University 
  Emily V. Thornbury, Yale University
  
  Crossing Borders in the  
  Insular Middle Ages
  Edited by
  Aisling Byrne and  
  Victoria Flood
  
  British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
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  © 2019, Brepols Publishers n.v., Turnhout, Belgium
  All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced,
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  D/2019/0095/159
  ISBN: 97