Malcolm III's second invasion of England came in the aftermath of the Norman Conquest. He raided deeply into the north, taking enormous amounts of plunder and thousands of English captives as slaves. Contemporary sources including the Life of St Margaret record that Scotland became so full of English slaves after this raid that the price of a captive Englishman fell dramatically. Margaret herself is said to have worked to ransom as many as she could. The invasion consolidated Malcolm's position as the dominant power in northern Britain in the years immediately after 1066.
Many Northumbrians killed, enslaved or displaced
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