Chapter V: The Four Kingdoms (3)

See the _N. S. A._, vol. ii. p. 146, for the tradition of the battle
and a notice of these stone coffins.

Footnote 351:

_Chron. Picts and Scots_, p. 402.

Footnote 352:

Ex quo tempore spes cœpit et virtus regni Anglorum fluere, ac retro
sublapsa referri. Nam et Picti terram possessionis suæ quam tenuerunt
Angli, et Scotti qui erant in Brittania, Brettonum quoque pars
nonnulla, libertatem receperunt, quam et hactenus habent per annos
circiter quadraginta sex.—B. iv. c. 26.

Footnote 353:

Et nunquam addiderunt Saxones Ambronum ut a Pictis vectigal
exigerent.—Nennius Con. _Chron. Picts and Scots_, p. 11.

Footnote 354:

Distructumque regni statum, quamvis intra fines angustiores, nobiliter
recuperavit.—B. iv. c. xxvi.

Footnote 355:

Inter plurimos gentis Anglorum vel interemptos gladio vel servitio
addictos, vel de terra Pictorum fuga lapsos, etiam reverendissimus vir
Dei Trumuini, qui in eos episcopatum acceperat, recessit cum suis qui
erant in monasterio Aebbercurnig, posito quidem in regione Anglorum,
sed in vicinia freti quod Anglorum terras, Pictorumque disterminat.—B.
iv. c. xxvi. Trumuin appears to have fled himself from the province of
the Picts, but, instead of remaining at Abercorn, to have retreated
from thence with its monks, as too near the Pictish territory. In
fact, as it had been but recently established in connection with the
bishopric over the Picts which he had now lost, he had no object in
remaining there.

Footnote 356:

A.D. 693 Bruidhe mac Bile rex Fortrend moritur et Alpin mac
Nechtain.—_Tigh._

Footnote 357:

_Chronicles of the Picts and Scots_, p. 408.

Footnote 358:

A.D. 694 Obsessio Duin Fother.—_An. Ult._ A.D. 697 Tarachin _ar na
scriss as a flaithius_ (driven from the lordship).—_Tigh._

Footnote 359:

A.D. 698 Cath etir Saxones et Pictos ubi cecidit filius Bernith qui
dicebatur Brechtraig.—_Tigh._ 698 Berctred dux regius Nordanhymbrorum
a Pictis interfectus.—Bede, _Chron._ 699 Tarain ad Hiberniam
fugit.—_An. Ult._

Footnote 360:

706 Brude mac Derile mortuus est.—_Tigh._

Footnote 361:

711 Strages Pictorum in campo Manand ab Saxonis ubi Findgaine mac
Deleroith immatura morte jacuit.—_Tigh._ 711 Berctfrid præfectus cum
Pictis pugnavieum regnatt.—Bede, _Chron._ 710. In the same year the
Aldorman Beorhtfrith fought against the Picts between Hæfe and
Cære.—_Sax. Chron._ in Thorpe’s trans.

Footnote 362:

Bede’s expression in referring to Candida Casa or Whitherne as ‘locus
ad provinciam Berniciorum pertinens’ (B. iii. c. iv.), implies that it
still belonged to the Northumbrians; and Simeon of Durham, in his
history of St. Cuthbert, says that King Ecgfrid gave him in 685
‘villam quæ vocatur Creca ... et quia videbatur parva terra, adjecit
civitatem quæ vocatur Luel, quæ habet in circuitu quindecim milliaria,
et in eadem civitate posuit congregationem sanctimonialium, et
abbatissam ordinavit et scholas constituit.’‘—Ed. Surtees, p. 141. The
Angles would have been entirely separated from Galloway, and could not
have communicated with it, if they had not possessed the south shore
of the Solway Firth also.

Footnote 363:

694 Domnall mac Avin rex Alochluaithe moritur.—_Tigh._

Footnote 364:

696 Jugulatio Domhnaill filii Conaill Crandamnai.—_An. Ult._ 697
Fearchar Fota moritur.—_Tigh._ Euchu nepos Domhnall jugulatus
est.—_An. Ult._ 698 Combustio Duin Onlaig. Expulsio Ainbhcellaig filii
Ferchar de regno et vinctus ad Hiberniam vehitur.—_An. Ult._

Footnote 365:

These kings are included in the list of kings of Dalriada in the
Synchronisms of Flann Mainistrech, and in the Albanic Duan; but as
their joint reigns amount to 64 years, while from the death of Domnall
Brecc in 642, to the expulsion of Ainbhcellaig in 698, there are only
56, it is plain that they were not all consecutive reigns, but ruled
over different parts of Dalriada at the same time.

Footnote 366:

701 Destructio Duin Onlaigh apud Sealbach. Jugulatio generis
Cathboth.—_An. Ult._

Footnote 367:

Tighernac has, in 621, ‘Cath Cindelgthen in quo ceciderunt da mic
Libran mic Illaind mic Cerbaill. Conall mac Suibne victor erat et
Domnall breacc cum eo. Conaing mac Aedan mic Gabrain diversus est.
Bimudine eiceas cecinit.’ The poem may be thus translated:—

‘The resplendent billows of the sea,
The sun that raised them
My grief, the pale storms (are)
Against Conang with his army
The woman of the fair locks
Was in the Curach with Conang.
Lamentation pursueth with us
This day at Bili Tortan.’

In the tract on the Men of Alban the descendants of Conang are called
‘the men of the half portion of Conang, or half of the _tuath_ or
barony.’—_Chron. Picts and Scots_, p. 315.

Footnote 368:

701 Destructio Duin Onlaigh apud Sealbach. Jugulatio generis
Cathboth.—_An. Ult._ 704 Strages Dalriada in Glenlemnae.—_Tigh._ 707
Becc nepos Duncadho jugulatur.—_An. Ult._ 711 Congressio Brittonum et
Dalriadha for Loirgeclat ubi Britones devicti.—_Tigh._ 712 Obsessio
Aberte apud Selbacum.—_An. Ult._ 714 Duin Onlaig construitur apud
Selbacum.—_Tigh._ 717 Congressio Dalriada et Britonum in lapide qui
vocatur Minvircc et Britones devicti sunt.—_Tigh._