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“BRUDE” TITLE OF KINGS OF PICTS 87

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 ‘‘ Ombeccan, 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 cf 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 Uy 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” oy “ 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 6, Brude-Gant 2. Brude oy Bruide-Pant (B.- 7, Brude-Ur-gant Pont) 8. Brude-Guith® (Gnith) 3. Brude-Ur-pant (-Ur-pont) 9. Brude-Ur-Guith (-Ur-Gnith) 4. Brude-Leo 10. Brude oy Bruide-Fecir 5. Brude-Ur-Leo’ (Uleo) (-Feth) 'S.CP. xxii; 4and24. *Colbertine MS.ed.S.C.P.,23. 4 7b. 4and 24. ‘Thus Leo, and Gant — Knut or Canut (?), Guith = Goth, and so on. * The Colbertine MS. reads here “‘ Ur-lea; * see A.C.N., 137.

° 1b. “ Guith” and “ Urguith,’” 137, and Skene’s eye copy facsimile also may be so read.