Scotland Before Scotland

Alt Clut the Kingdom of the Rock

More nations have vanished from this Earth than exist today. It is hard to imagine that Scotland or India will one day not exist, yet history is the graveyard of nations. This is the story of one such country, brief in its compass, because like a once mighty ship, a Titan, who has sunk into the ocean of history, its wreckage and remains are meager. It is the story of a Kingdom called Alt Clut that existed for 600, perhaps 700 years, and is now almost unheard of and unknown. The story of Alt Clut only survives in archaeological finds, linguistic whispers, the chronicles of its neighbors and enemies, king-lists, poetry, and legends.

©2013 Tim Dalgleish (P)2022 Tim Dalgleish