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Alban and the northern Saxons, and fought a battle
in which the Scots were victorious at first but were
routed by Ragrivald’s ambush; the same tactics he
had used just before to decide a battle in Ireland.
The Pictish Chronicle tells that Constantine in his
eighteenth year (918) fought Ragnvald at Tinemore
(Tynemoor, near Corbridge) and the Scots were
victorious. The fact remains that next year Ragnvald
took York.
Ragnvald O’Ivar, king of White and Black Gaill–
of his own Norse and the Danes of Northumbria–
died in 921 (Annals of Ulster). If 921 is the year
of the submission of the North at Bakewell, the
chronological difficulty about Ragnvald’s part in it
vanishes. In the same year Guthfrith OIvar took
Dublin, driving out Sigtrygg Gale O’Ivar, who
thereupon took Ragnvald’s place at York. In 925
he went to Tamworth on a visit, was baptised, and
married Æthelstan’s sister.
Æthelstan was now pushing his influence still
farther north than his father Eadward had reached.
In 926 he met Constantine, king of Scots, Owain, king
of Cumbria (the land from Derwentwater to Dumbarton)
and Ealdred of Bamborough at Dacor, probably
Dacre in Cumberland on the borders of territory in
the Strathclyde and Scottish power. It may be that
a young son of the Scottish king was baptised on the
occasion; the tie of "compaternity" with Æthelstan
was worth obtaining. It may also be that the northern
kings promised to renounce – if not "idolatry" –
their alliance with heathens. Constantine’s
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