• Siward, the earl of Northumbria who defeated Macbeth in battle, was said to have been descended from a polar bear?

Facts on topics related to Macbeth of Scotland

Malcolm III of Scotland

• when the King of Scotland told King Magnus of Norway he could have any land he could circumnavigate, Magnus had a longship (reconstruction pictured) dragged across an isthmus to East Loch Tarbert, Argyll and claimed Kintyre?

Malcolm II of Scotland

• kings of the House of Alpin ruled Pictland and the kingdom of Alba, in modern Scotland, beginning with Cináed mac Ailpín in the 840s and ending with the death of Máel Coluim mac Cináeda in 1034?

Kenneth MacAlpin

• according to legend, the eponymous ancestor of Clan McCorquodale was awarded lands for recovering the decapitated head of Alpin, father of Kenneth MacAlpin, King of Scots?