with "Fib" or Fife, and including "Fortrenn" or Perth, and "Got" or "Caith" in the Irish versions, which is Caithness. The Irish versions further state that all the seven divisions of North Alban were under the paramount rule of "Onbeccan, son of Caith." This prominence given to Caith (which, we shall see, is the tribal title "Catti") and his son indicates that the succession in Scotland passed from son to son, from the first king Pruithne (as Celtic scholars explain "Cruithne ") who appears to be the Prwt (or Part-olon) of the Newton Stone, and that other four kings named with Onbeccan, after the seven provinces, were probably names in the contemporary branch dynasty in Ireland. The succession also in the case at least of the last two of these four kings, namely Gest and Wur-Gest or UrGest, was clearly from son to son, as we shall see that the prefix Ur means" son of." This fact is of great significance, as showing that these early kings of the Picts succeeded in the paternal line and not in the maternal line, and were therefore presumably Aryan and not themselves Picts, which latter were in their matrilinear succession, which, we shall see, was a vestige of the primitive Matriarchist promiscuity of the Picts. After these preliminary kings there now follows an unbroken line of twenty-nine kings of the Picts, each bearing the title of Brude" or "Bruide"; and they are stated to have ruled jointly over both Hibernia and [North] Alban. This remarkable list of "Brude or "Bruide" kings is as follows, and it will be noted that some of the names are essentially Aryan the version in the Irish list, when differing in spelling from the Colbertine MS., is added within brackets: 1. Brude Bont 2. Brude or Bruide-Pant (B.Pont 3. Brude-Ur-pant (-Ur-pont) 4. Brude-Leo 5. Brude-Ur-Leo (Uleo) 'S.C.P. xxii; 4 and 24. 6. Brude-Gant 7. Brude-Ur-gant 8. Brude-Guith" (Gnith) 9. Brude-Ur-Guith (-Ur-Gnith) 10. Brude or Bruide-Fecir (-Feth) 2 Colbertine MS. ed.S.C.P., 23. * Ib., 4 and 24 Thus Leo, and Gant = Knut or Canut (?), Guith = Goth, and so on. The Colbertine MS. reads here Ur-leo; see A.C.N., 137. " " " • Ib. Guith and "Urguith," 137, and Skene's eye copy facsimile also may be so read. II. Brude-Ur- Fecir (- Ur- 20. Brude-Gart 21. Brude-Ur-gart 22. Brude-Cinid (Cind) 25. Brude-Ur-Uip 26. Brude-Grid 27. Brude-Ur-Grid 19. Brude or Bruide-Uru2 (Ero) 29. Brude-Ur-mūnd (Ur-Muin) In scanning this king-list it is seen that "Brude" or "Bruide" is clearly used as a title, prefixed to the proper personal name of each king. Indeed, the Irish text says, "And Bruide was the name of each man of them, and of the divisions of the other men of the tribe (Cruithne) "—and this latter statement is important, as presumably meaning that the "other Cruithne men" also bore this title of "Bruide" or "Briton." It is also noteworthy that all of the names after the first are in pairs, in which the second is formed by first surname repeated with the prefix Ur. This Ur presumably represents the Celtic Ua "a descendant or son"; and, what is of great importance is that this practice is precisely paralleled in the Sanskrit and Pali king-lists of the Aryan Barat kings, which often prefix Upa or son of " to the name of a king This fact now appears " bearing the same name as his father. to disclose the Aryan source of the Cymric prefix Ap or Up in personal names, such as "Ap-John Ap-John" or "Up-John," with the meaning of " Son of John." And it also proves that at least half (if not the whole) of these "Brude" kings were, like the first on the list, succeeded by their sons, i.e., by patrilinear succession. Similarly, amongst the historical kings of the Picts, succeeding Columba's patron Brude (or "Bruide" or " Bridesh"), A.C.N., 37, and Skene's eye copy also may be so read. . Ib. 137. • See Škene's translation op. cit. 26. The Irish text of the Books of Ballymote and Lecan is : "Bruide adberthea fri gach fir dib, randa na fear aile; ro gabsadar 1. ar c. ut est illeabraibh na Cruithneach." •Cp. C.A.N., 360. " Upa in Sanskrit and Pali=" below", "under," and when prefixed to personal names, as it often is, means son" cp. M.S.D., 194. " "BRUDE" KINGS & PART-OLON 89 or who is surnamed "son of Malkom (or "Melchon" "Melcho ")," of 556 A.D.,1 are the following bearers of this title Brude " Brude or "Breidei," son of Fathe or Wid, 640 A.D. Brude or " Bredei," son of Bili or Bile", 674-693 A.D., contemporary with and mentioned by Adamnan. Brude or "Bredei," son of Derelei, 699 A.D. Brude or Bredi or Brete, son of Wirguist or Tenegus, 761 A.D. Bred or Brude, son of Ferat or Fotel, the last King of the Picts, 842 A.D.3 Now, it is significant to find that, although these kings, entitled "Brude," Bruide " or " Bridei," were kings of the Picts -a race which, we shall see, were non-Aryan and pre-Briton aborigines-they themselves appear to have been not Picts in race but "Bart-ons" or Brit-on Scots, i.e. Aryans. The second of these later Brudes, or "Bredei-the-son-ofBili (or Bile)," was the son of the Scot king" Bili " or " Bile " (that is a namesake of the Phoenician Sun-god Bil or Bel of our inscription) who is called "King of Strath-Clyde' and whose dun or fort was Dun-Barton or The Fort of the Bartons (i.e., Barat-ons) or Britons on the Clyde. His son Brude or Bredei is called "King of Fortrenn" or Perth, indicating his residence there. He had, besides, a kinsman who was also king and called "King Brude," who latterly assisted in the defence of Dun-Barton against the AngloSaxon invaders." This presumes that the people whom Partolon-the-Scot ruled from the Don Valley in the fourth century B.C. were also Picts; and that these later kings, bearing the title of Brudes or" Bruides," and claiming descent from " Pruithne," were of " " " 'He was born 504 A.D. and died 583. Another king Bruidhi son of Maelchon was slain in battle at Coicin (Kincardine) in 752 A.D., according to The Annals of Tighernas," and in the same year "Taudar son of Bile and king of Alclyde (or Dunbarton) died (S.C.P., 76). This king Bile (named after the Sun-god Bil) of Dunbarton died 722 and was succeeded by his son. 2 For these variant spellings of the name Brude or Bruide in the Colb. MS. and Irish books see S.C.P. 3 and 28, etc.; also "Register of the Priory of St. Andrew's." Fol. 46-49 in A.C.N. 145, etc. See foregoing also A.C.N. 139-147. This last king of the Picts was succeeded in 843 by Kinade son of Alpin or Kenneth MacAlpin, whose son was Constantine. his kindred, if not remote lineal descendants; and that the confederacy between the Picts and the Scots, of which we hear so much in the history text-books, was a confederacy in which the Scots were the rulers and leaders in battle, and the Picts the subjects whom they had civilized, more or less. This relationship appears to have continued down to the ninth century A.D. when the Scot "kings of the Picts" were still using a dialectic form of the old ruling Aryan Catti title of "Barat," like the AryanPhoenician Khatti-Kassi king of our Newton Stone inscription, "Prat-(gya-) olowonie" or "Part-olon, King of the Scots," who, I find, also presumably bore the alternative title of "Cath-laun," as the first traditional king of the Picts (see Appendix II). And, as a fact, the Don Valley was an especial abode of the Picts in prehistoric times. The remains of their subterranean dwellings are especially numerous there.1 This now brings us face to face with the much-vexed and hitherto unsolved question "Who were the Picts?" This question, however, can be better tackled after we have examined through our new lights the traces of the prehistoric aborigines whom Part-olon found in occupation of Ireland, which was also a Land of the Picts. 'Writing on " Picts' earth houses" J. L. Burton (Hist. of Scotland, i, 98) says "They exist in many places in Scotland, but chiefly they concentrate themselves near Glenkindy and Kildrumony on the upper reaches of the River Don in Aberdeenshire. There they may be found so thickly strewn as to form subterranean villages or even towns. The fields are honeycombed with them." And cp. J. Stuart on Subterranean Habitations in Aberdeenshire." Archæologia Scotica, 1822, ii, 53-8. " PART-OLON'S INVASION OF IRELAND ABOUT 400 B.C. DISCOVERS FIRST PEOPLING OF IRELAND AND ALBION IN STONE AGE BY MATRIARCHST VAN OR FEN "DWARFS " Disclosing Van or "Fein" Origin of Irish Aborigines and of their Serpent-Worship of St. Brigid and of the Matrilinear Customs of the Irish and Picts. IN searching the Irish-Scot traditional records for references to Part-olon and his Phoenician invasion of Ireland, the relative historicity of a considerable part of the Irish tradition for the remoter pre-historic period, extending back to the Stone Age, becomes presumably apparent. Although the old tradition, as found in the Books of Ballymote, Lecan, Leinster, etc., is manifestly overlaid thickly with later legend and myth by the medieval Irish bards who compiled these books from older sources, and expanded them with many anachronisms and trivial conjectural details, introduced by uninformed later bards to explain fancied affinities on an etymological basis; nevertheless, we seem to find in these books a residual outline of consistent tradition, which appears to preserve some genuine memory of the remote prehistoric period. This enables us, in the new light of our discoveries in regard to Part-olon, to recover the outline of a seemingly genuine tradition for the prehistory of Erin and Alban, and for the first peopling of Erin in the hitherto dark prehistoric 1 Ed. Joyce. |