The Highlanders of Scotland - Clan Strachan Society

CHAP. Ill] OF SCOTLAND 35
unite, as we have seen, in the person of Eoganan, whose reign in
the Latin Lists is made to extend to thirty years, and in the
Albanic Duan to only thirteen. He would appear, consequently,
to have been one of the kings of Dalriada, of the Scottish line,
and to have recovered possession of the territories
Dalriada by which had been wrested from his ancestors by Angus
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736. I his undertaking he apparently accomplished
by the assistance of the Irish. The seventeenth year of his reign,
or that in which he obtained possession of the whole of Dalriada,
will fall about the year 819, and in that very year the Annals of
Inisfallen mention the death or slaughter of Aid, king of Ireland,
while fighting in Alban, or Scotland ; and in another part of the
same annals he is mentioned as having been killed at the battle
of Druvi ; thus plainly indicating that he assisted the Dalriads
in recovering their ancient possessions, and that he was himself
slain after they had pushed their success as far as the Drum,
or Drumalban, the original boundary between the Picts and
Scots.
The events which took place between the conquest of part
of Dalriada by the Picts in 736, and its recovery by the Dalraids
in 819, are not numerous.
In 741 the northern Picts appear once more to
between ufe"^ have leagued with the Dalriadic Scots, and to have
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Dalriads.
slaiii onc of the Pictish princes on the side of Angus
Mac Fergus, which aggression was immediately
followed by the attack and total defeat of the
In 749 Cillemoire, the residence of the Pictish prince in
Lorn, was burnt, probably by Edfin, the Dalriadic king.
In 761 died Angus Mac Fergus, certainly the
Angus"* most powerful king the Picts ever had. He raised
Picto."*"'^ the southern Picts to a great superiority in Scotland.
He defeated the northern Picts, and brought these
turbulent tribes under his subjection. He almost annihilated
the Scots of Dalriada; and yet it was his power and his victories
which laid the germs of that revolution which resulted in the
overthrow of the Pictish influence in Scotland.
Angus was succeeded by his brother Brude, who reigned
only two years. After Brude's death the northern Picts appear