The Highlanders of Scotland - Clan Strachan Society

APPEND.] OF SCOTLAND 163
exception, the names of the fourteen sons of Brude given by the
Pictish Chronicle. This will appear from the following table,
and as the names in the one list are Gaelic, and in the other
Greek, it will be necessary to add to the former the forms they
would assume by pronunciation, and the use of the aspirate in
the oblique cases, which has the effect in Gaelic, as is well
known, of sometimes changing the form of the letter, and sometimes
rendering it silent.^
Pant or Phant
Leo Leo
Gant . . . pronounced . . . Kant
Guith . . . pronounced . . . Kai
Feth or Ped
Cal or Kal
Cuit or Tuic
Fee Fee
Eru Eru
Gart ^
. . . pronounced . . . Kar
Cinid Cinid
Uip or Uiph
Grith . . . pronounced . . . Kre
Muin or Vuin
Novaniai. ^
Lougol
A'a/z/eai.
A'azWno'i.
Epid\6\.
A'a/edonioi.
Ta/'/^saloi.
Vakovc\?i%o\.
Mortal.
A'amones.
Damnonioi.
Y^owxwaovioi. *
A>^ones.
^V«ricontes.
In comparing these names, it must be recollected that the
Gaelic names are monosyllabic, while the Greek are not. But
\\-hen, in fourteen Greek names, the fiist syllables of teji are
found to be identic with the Gaelic, as well as the second
syllables of tivo, and that there are but two which bear a
doubtful or no similarity, the identity may be considered com-
pletes
We thus see that the Pictish nation was a confederacy of
^ In old Gaelic D and T are used for
each otlier indiscriminately. By the
asj)irate used in the oblique cases, b
and M become v, P becomes F, and T is
silent. In ancient MSS. it is likewise
difficult to distinguish t from c.
^
Na, the Gaelic definite article,
Navantai— the Yantai.
'*
Tighernac mentions the Gens Gartnaidh,
pronounced Karnie.
* Corr is the Gaelic for a corner, and
hence a district " Corrn'aovioi " is the
" district of the Aovioi," and Corr is
singularly applicable to their situation
in Caitliness.
*The identification of the fourteen
tribes with the fourteen sons of Brude
may perhaps be considered visionary,
but its accuracy does not in any way
affect the argument regarding the
constitution of the Pictish monarchy.