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396 PHGNICIAN ORIGIN OF BRITONS & SCOTS

In Scotland we are told that Cath-luan established his rule by force of arms :* And [North] Alban was without a king all that time till the periodof . . . Cath-luan,

son of Cait-mind, who possessed the kingdom by force in Cruthen land, and in Erin, forsixty years, and after him Gud possessed it for fifty years,’

Though in another version it would appear that his occupation had been relatively peaceful :“From thence (Erin) they conquered Alba

Without destroying the people, From Chath (Caith-ness] to Foirciu [Forth].”*

Like Part-olon, the ‘‘ Gioln,’’ who is recorded in the British Chronicles to have visited Orkney, we are told that ‘‘ the clan Gleoin ”’ of Cath-Inan also visited Orkney and occupied it :—

“The clan of Glegin, son of Erc-ol, took possession of the islands of Orcc [Orkney] and were dispersed again from the islands of Orcc,’”

And it seems possible that this leader’s name “ Erc-ol” may be intended for the “Ikr’’ personal name of Part-olon, as recorded on his Newton Stone monument.

The ancestry of Cath-luan also is generally identical with that of Prvtgioln. As seen in the extract in the heading, he was an “ 4ive,”’ that is, Arya or Aryan. He was a Pruithne (Crmithne) and was “ the son of ( aitmind,’’* in which compound word mind means ‘ the noble,’5 and thus presumably describes him as “ The son of the Noble Catti or Khatti or Hitt-ites.” And his two sons bore the prefixed title of “ Catin,’’® which is obviously the equivalent of the ‘‘ Cadeni’’ title of Ptolemy for the people of the Clyde Valley, and a title, as we have seen, of the Phcenicians.

All this evidence thus seems to establish the identity of the Catti Part-olon with Cath-luan, the first Aryan king of the Picts in Scotland.

1 MS. Bodleian Laud., 6ro, in Skene, op. cit., 27.

* Books of Ballvmote and Lecan, Skene, ob. cit., 43. 5 Thid., 23.

+ Skene, op. cit., 27. 5 See Calder, op. cit., 347.

® The two sons of Cath-luan were Catino-Lodhor and Catino-Lochan. Skene, op. cit., 31.