Qualla: Dunfermline https://qualla.com/dunfermline en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:16 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/w/dunfermline-wk/hero-small.webp Qualla: Dunfermline https://qualla.com/dunfermline Dunfermline: Introduction https://qualla.com/dunfermline/ Photo credit Kim Traynor, CC BY-SA 3.0. "The king sits in Dunfermline toune, drinking the blude reid wine," begins the old ballad of Sir Patrick Spens, and for centuries that king was real. Dunfermline was the working capital of Scotland from the 11th century until the Stuarts moved their court to London in 1603. Seven kings are buried at its abbey, the last of them Robert the Bruce in 1329. The last monarch born here was Charles I in 1600. Then the crowns united, the patronage flowed south, and Dunfermline became what it remains today: a city that has been somewhere important for very nearly a thousand years.

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/w/dunfermline-wk/gcvw-dunfermline-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Dunfermline: Crooked Stream on a Fortified Hill https://qualla.com/dunfermline/ Photo credit Yoostar, CC BY-SA 3.0. The name Dunfermline mixes "dun" (a fortified hill or outcrop) with "ferm lynn," which is thought to mean a crooked stream, though no one is entirely sure. People have been living on this defensible site since around 3000 BC. The town only enters recorded history around 1070, whe...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/w/dunfermline-wk/gcvw-dunfermline-crooked-stream-on-a-fortified-hill.mp3 0:06 2 full Dunfermline: The Bones of the Bruce https://qualla.com/dunfermline/ Photo credit Mcwesty (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0. When Robert the Bruce died in 1329, his body was brought to Dunfermline Abbey for burial. His heart was removed first, packed in a casket, and carried on crusade by Sir James Douglas, who threw it into the thick of a battle against the Moors in Spain shouting, "Forward, brave hea...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/w/dunfermline-wk/gcvw-dunfermline-the-bones-of-the-bruce.mp3 0:06 3 full Dunfermline: Carnegie Comes Home https://qualla.com/dunfermline/ Photo credit Paul McIlroy, CC BY-SA 2.0. In November 1835, in a small handloom weaver's cottage at 2 Moodie Street, Andrew Carnegie was born. His father William was a damask weaver whose trade was being destroyed by mechanised looms. The family emigrated to Pittsburgh in 1848, where the twelve-year-old Andrew began work...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/w/dunfermline-wk/gcvw-dunfermline-carnegie-comes-home.mp3 0:06 4 full Dunfermline: After the Fire https://qualla.com/dunfermline/ Photo credit Kim Traynor, CC BY-SA 3.0. The town burned down on 25 May 1624, and the patronage that had once flowed from royal Scotland was already gone. Coal mining, salt panning, limestone quarrying, and linen weaving sustained the area through the next two centuries, until the Victorian railways and shipping concent...

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