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Vikings in Scotland
The native people whom the Vikings encountered in the Northern Isles were Picts and the Brough of Birsay in north west Orkney was inhabited by a Pictish community.
The Norse settlement appears to have been established early in the ninth century and the discovery of native Pictish artefacts in the Norse houses of the ninth and tenth century demonstrates that there was contact between the two peoples.
These include native Pictish types, Scandinavian artefacts and imports from Ireland and Anglo-Saxon England.
Birsay is mentioned in the Norse Orkneyinga Saga written around 1200 AD.
These pages are mainly about the Brough of Birsay although artefacts from other Orkney locations are included.
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