Dunsinane Hill
Dunsinane Hill is a hill in the Sidlaw Range near Collace, Perthshire . He is mentioned in William Shakespeare's play Macbeth , in which Macbeth is informed by a supernatural being: "Macbeth will never be defeated until one day / The great Birnams-Wald rises to Dunsinan / Enemy."
The hill is 310 meters (1020 feet) high and offers expansive views of the surrounding landscape. It consists of a hill fort from the late Iron Age , the impressive walls of which are still visible. The site was damaged by undocumented amateur excavations by archaeologists in the 19th century who were drawn to the site by its association with Shakespeare. Little of value was learned from the history of the monument from these unscientific activities.
Dunsinane is the narrated site of a battle of 1054 in which Siward, Earl of Northumbria , defeated King Macbeth of Scotland . The much older Iron Age mountain fortress has long been known as Macbeth's Castle, although there is no archaeological evidence that it was used by him or anyone in the mid-11th century.
literature
- Nick Aitchison: Macbeth: Man and Myth. Sutton Publishing, Stroud 1999, ISBN 978-0-7509-1891-6
Individual evidence
- ↑ Macbeth, Act IV, scene 1: "Macbeth shall never vanquish'd be until / Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane hill / Shall come against him." (Translation Dorothea Tieck )
Coordinates: 56 ° 28 ′ 13.4 " N , 3 ° 16 ′ 40.8" W.