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Group: Osnabrück, Prince-Bishopric of
People: Meister Eckhart
Topic: Degsastan, Battle of
Location: Eraclea Veneto Italy

Degsastan, Battle of

Years: 603 - 603

The Battle of Degsastan is fought c. 603 between king Æthelfrith of Bernicia and the Gaels under Áedán mac Gabráin, king of Dál Riada.

Æthelfrith carries the day, winning a decisive victory, although his brother Theodbald is killed.

We know almost nothing else about the battle, not even where "Degsastan" was supposed to be.

Some suspect it was Dawstane in Liddesdale, Scotland.

"{Readers} take infinitely more pleasure in knowing the variety of incidents that are contained in them, without ever thinking of imitating them, believing the imitation not only difficult, but impossible: as if heaven, the sun, the elements, and men should have changed the order of their motions and power, from what they were anciently"

― Niccolò Machiavelli, Discourses on Livy (1517)