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What Do You Think of David the First of Scotland?
David the first has been such an enduring image in the history of not only mediaeval scotland, but early, also early modern and modern scotland. What do you think his longer term legacy is? For the first time we can start to see a geographical entity that we would begin to recognize as scotland proper. He's going into parts of mainland scotland that his predecessors had at best gone maybe for a raid or two every now and then. But he is going there, and heis planting his people there,. establishing monasteries there., regulating and re establishing dioceses and things like that. So that, i think, is david's true legacy