Constantine II of Scotland actively engaged in the politics and warfare of northern England as Viking York threatened to absorb more territory. At Corbridge in 918 he allied with the Northumbrian English against Ragnall, the Norse-Irish king of York. The battle was indecisive but marked Scottish intervention in Lowland border politics that would characterise relations for the next century. Constantine took the opportunity to assert Scottish interests in the border zone.
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