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PART I<br />

BEDE, HISTORIA ECCLESIASTICA, I, 1 ; VOL. I,<br />

PP. 12, 13. 1<br />

BUT as time went on, Brita<strong>in</strong> received a third race, after the<br />

Britons and Picts that of the ;<br />

Scots, <strong>in</strong> the region of the Picts.<br />

And they advanced from Ireland, led by Reuda, 2 and claimed<br />

for themselves, whether by friendship or by the sword, the<br />

settlements which they have still : and from <strong>this</strong> leader, to<br />

wit, they are even yet called Dalreud<strong>in</strong>i, for <strong>in</strong> their tongue<br />

"<br />

Daal signifies a . . .<br />

part."<br />

left it<br />

[Ireland] is properly the country of the Scots : they<br />

as we have said, and added a third nation <strong>in</strong> Brita<strong>in</strong> to the<br />

Britons and the Picts. 3<br />

1 Cf.<br />

15-16.<br />

A.S. Vers. i, 28 ; 30. A.S.C., Pref., MSS. D,E,F. H. of H., 14,<br />

2 Cairbre Riada (cf. supra, note) is the eponymous founder of Dalriada<br />

<strong>in</strong> Antrim, ca. 200 A.D. Cf. Ann. of the Four Masters, <strong>in</strong> O'Conor, Scriptores,<br />

iii, 78.<br />

The first k<strong>in</strong>g of Dalriada <strong>in</strong> <strong>Scotland</strong> was Fergus Mor, son of Ere ; cf.<br />

supra, pedigree of the k<strong>in</strong>gs. He became k<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> 502 ; cf. Skene, P. & S.,<br />

17, 18, 59, 130, 66.<br />

3 For the earlier <strong>in</strong>vasions of Southern Brita<strong>in</strong> by Picts and Scots v.<br />

Bede, the Historia Brittonum, and Gildas.<br />

For the distribution of races cf. Gildas, De Exc. Brit., XT, <strong>in</strong> M.G.H.,<br />

A A., xiii, 33: "Thenceforth [? 396] Brita<strong>in</strong> was abandoned by all her<br />

armed soldiers and by her warlike forces, and by her rulers [the Romans,]<br />

cruel though they were ; and despoiled of a great number of her youth, who<br />

had followed the footsteps of the aforesaid tyrant [Maximus] and never aga<strong>in</strong><br />

came home ; and, be<strong>in</strong>g wholly ignorant of every warlike practice, she suf-<br />

fered for many years, groan<strong>in</strong>g and stupefied, to be trampled upon at first<br />

by two exceed<strong>in</strong>g cruel foreign nations, of the Scots from the west-northwest,<br />

and of the Picts from the north." (A marg<strong>in</strong>al note <strong>in</strong> one MS.,<br />

"<br />

Because the Scots at that time dwelt <strong>in</strong> Ireland, and<br />

M.H.B., 10, note :<br />

the Picts <strong>in</strong> <strong>Scotland</strong>, that is, to the north.")<br />

"<br />

Cf. Bede, H.E., I, 12, i, 25-26 : Now we call these nations foreign not<br />

because their place was outside of Brita<strong>in</strong>, but because they were separated<br />

from the district of the Britons, two gulfs of the sea ly<strong>in</strong>g between : and of<br />

these gulfs the one runs <strong>in</strong>to the lands of Brita<strong>in</strong> far and widely from the<br />

eastern, the other from the western sea, although they <strong>can</strong>not meet.<br />

"<br />

The eastern gulf has <strong>in</strong> its midst " (<strong>in</strong> medio sui ; not necessarily on an<br />

island) " the city of Giudi ; the western has above it, that is on its right side,<br />

the town of Alcluith, which means <strong>in</strong> their tongue the Rock of Clyde ; for<br />

it is near a river of that name."<br />

This passage is omitted by the A.S. Vers. For Giudi MS. IV has Guidi ;<br />

so H. of H., 34. MS. C 2 has iudi. Cf. <strong>in</strong>fra, aa. 655-658.<br />

Of the wall built, accord<strong>in</strong>g to Gildas, XII, u.s., by the Britons between

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