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Dunsinane

Elevation of the Sidlaw Hills in Perth and Kinross unitary authority, Scotland, rising 15 km/9 mi northeast of Perth to a height of 308 m/1,010 ft. On its summit lie the remains of ‘Macbeth's Castle’, where Siward, Earl of Northumbria, is reputed to have defeated Macbeth in 1054. The playwright William Shakespeare produced a dramatic version of the event in his tragedy Macbeth.



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The witches in Shakespeare's Macbeth assured the Scottish monarch that "Macbeth shall never vanquish'd be until, Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane hill, Shall come against him.
 
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