Page:Chronicles of the Picts, chronicles of the Scots, and other early memorials of Scottish history.djvu/114

 CVl PEEFACE. find ourselves upon historic ground, for this king is likewise mentioned by Adomnan in his " Life of St. " Columba," who describes him as having his palace on the banks of the river Ness, where it issues from the lake of that name. He also occurs in all the lists of the Pictish kings as having reigned thirty years, and his death is recorded by Tighernac in the year 583, which would place his ninth year in the year 562, while he records the mission of St. Columba in the following year. The chronicles, in the main, agree in his successors down to the period of the reign of Oswald. Brude was succeeded by Gamait, son of Donald, and he by Nectan, son or grandson of Verb,' after whom comes Cinoch, son of Luchtren, and he is followed by three brothers, who reigned in succession, Garnad, Bredei, and Talorc, sons of Wid or Foith, who occupied the Pictish throne during the whole of the reign of Oswald. The Picts then possessed the whole of Scotland north of the Firths of Forth and Clyde, with the exception of the comparatively small district lying to the north of the Firth of Clyde, termed Dalriada, ' The " Irish Aunals" mention the death of Garnad in 599, of Cinaeth mac Luchtren in 531, and of Garnad mac Foith in 633, Bnide mac Foith in 641, and Echtolarg mac Foith in 653, but omit Nectan. He is also omitted in two of the lists of Pictish kings, Nos. XXIII. and xxxii. The "Pictish Chronicle" has an earlier Nectan, son of Erp, who founds Abemethy. This foundation is attributed by the other lists to Garnad, who died in 599 ; and as the " Chronicle of St. Andrews" adds after this Kectan, " Hie " fundavit Abemethy," it is pro- bable that the later date of the foundation has caused the rein- sertion of the same Nectan after Garnad.