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“BRUDE” KINGS & PART-OLON 89

who is surnamed ‘‘son of Malkom (or “ Melchon” or “ Melcho ’’),”’ of 556 A.p.,1 are the following bearers of this title “ Brude ” :—

Brude or “ Breidei,’”2 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.p.?

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 “‘ Prwithne,’’ were of

‘He was born 504 a.p, 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.

* 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.

65,6, 2 ycxixe 5 A.L.R. 140, etc: