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985: 1164: 1104: 1098: 979: 1040: 122:, begged Saint Brigid to beseech God for him. And she prayed for him and said: "If thou reach thy country, the Lord will have pity on thee. Thou shalt possess in peace the kingdom of the Picts." 106:(the Great). He is said to have reigned for twenty-four years. In a rare change from a bald statement of names and years, the king lists provide a tradition linking Nechtan to the foundation of 118:, to the day of judgement, Abernethy, with its territories ... Now the cause of the offering was this. Nectonius, living in a life of exile, when his brother Drest expelled him to 417: 1201: 1148: 1024: 410: 1081: 264: 1235: 403: 320: 354: 145:
It has been suggested that these traditions should be associated with a later Pictish king, with the very similar name of
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is named, claims that BuĂ­te raised Nechtan from the dead, and associated him with
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This biography of a member of Scottish royalty is a
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Index

King of the Picts
Talorc I
Drest II
king of the Picts
epithets
Latin
Abernethy
Saint Brigid
Ireland
BuĂ­te of Monasterboice
Monasterboice
Kirkbuddo
Strathmore
Nechtan nepos Uerb
Anderson, Alan Orr
ISBN
1-871615-03-8
Anderson, Marjorie O.
Kings and Kingship in Early Scotland
ISBN
0-7011-1604-8
"Royal succession and kingship among the Picts"
doi
10.3366/e0020157x08000140
hdl
20.500.11820/657d2747-c29d-4254-989d-eb23970a9684
ISSN
0020-157X
Fraser, James E.
ISBN

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