ISBN: 9781153784481

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustra… Mehr…

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 Excerpt: ...in regnum Pictorum'' (ib. 149), and the series of independent rulers of Dalriada ended. kingdom. Now we come to Alpin the father of Kenneth. That he Kenneth'' was a Dalriad Scot on his father''s side is certain. But that he f??r'' Alpin. was also through his mother a Pictish prince is very nearly certain from (1) his name, (2) the fact that in the chronicle which gives most particulars of him he is called '' rex Scotorum'', without any indication that he had obtained that position by force. We have seen that the '' rex Scotorum '' was for long before this time either always or nearly always a member of the Pictish royal family. The last Pictish ruler of Dalriada whom we have previously mentioned was Eoganan. In 834 Eoganan became king of the Picts, and in the same year we find Alpin called ''rex Scotorum''. Apparently, however, Eoganan refused to make over the principality to him: for he is not admitted into the list of Dalriad kings in the Synchronisms of Flann Mainistreach (Skene, Chronicles, 2i). Either for this reason or as a competitor for the Pictish throne, he led the Scots against 1 I have already suggested that Brude''s father may have been the well-known Maglocunus or Maelgwn, king of Gwynedd; and there may have been a war of succession between partisans of the Scots and partisans of the Kymry. the Picts at Easter, and won a battle in which ''plures de nobilioribus Pictorum ceciderunt''. But it is hinted that his elation led him to neglect the precautions necessary to maintain his position1, and in a second battle, on July 20, he was defeated and beheaded. Had Alpin been not a Pictish prince at all, but simply the leader of a rebellion of the Scots against the Picts, his defeat ought to have been followed by the accounts of further struggles in Dalriada before... Edward Williams Byron Nicholson, Books, History, Keltic researches; studies in the history and distribution of the ancient Goidelic language and peoples Books>History, General Books LLC<

ISBN: 9781153784481

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustra… Mehr…

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 Excerpt: ...in regnum Pictorum'' (ib. 149), and the series of independent rulers of Dalriada ended. kingdom. Now we come to Alpin the father of Kenneth. That he Kenneth'' was a Dalriad Scot on his father''s side is certain. But that he f??r'' Alpin. was also through his mother a Pictish prince is very nearly certain from (1) his name, (2) the fact that in the chronicle which gives most particulars of him he is called '' rex Scotorum'', without any indication that he had obtained that position by force. We have seen that the '' rex Scotorum '' was for long before this time either always or nearly always a member of the Pictish royal family. The last Pictish ruler of Dalriada whom we have previously mentioned was Eoganan. In 834 Eoganan became king of the Picts, and in the same year we find Alpin called ''rex Scotorum''. Apparently, however, Eoganan refused to make over the principality to him: for he is not admitted into the list of Dalriad kings in the Synchronisms of Flann Mainistreach (Skene, Chronicles, 2i). Either for this reason or as a competitor for the Pictish throne, he led the Scots against 1 I have already suggested that Brude''s father may have been the well-known Maglocunus or Maelgwn, king of Gwynedd; and there may have been a war of succession between partisans of the Scots and partisans of the Kymry. the Picts at Easter, and won a battle in which ''plures de nobilioribus Pictorum ceciderunt''. But it is hinted that his elation led him to neglect the precautions necessary to maintain his position1, and in a second battle, on July 20, he was defeated and beheaded. Had Alpin been not a Pictish prince at all, but simply the leader of a rebellion of the Scots against the Picts, his defeat ought to have been followed by the accounts of further struggles in Dalriada before... Edward Williams Byron Nicholson, Books, History, Keltic researches; studies in the history and distribution of the ancient Goidelic language and peoples Books>History <

ISBN: 1153784483

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