In the years before Nechtansmere (685), Ecgfrith of Northumbria conducted a series of campaigns into Pictland. In 682 he raided northward and temporarily subjugated Pictish tribes north of the Forth. This expansion seemed to mark Northumbrian supremacy over the whole of north Britain — which makes his disaster at Nechtansmere three years later all the more catastrophic.
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