Comments for Senchus http://senchus.wordpress.com Notes on early medieval Scotland Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:51:37 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on About Me by Cosmos http://senchus.wordpress.com/about/#comment-175 Cosmos Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:51:37 +0000 #comment-175 Tim, Wonderful personal notepad. My great, great, great grandparents are buried in St. Serf's Kirkyard at Dunning - watched over today by the Dupplin Cross. We are scattered like autumn leaves now around the world but its always good to know more about home. Tim,

Wonderful personal notepad. My great, great, great grandparents are buried in St. Serf’s Kirkyard at Dunning – watched over today by the Dupplin Cross. We are scattered like autumn leaves now around the world but its always good to know more about home.

]]> Comment on About Me by Harry Currie http://senchus.wordpress.com/about/#comment-174 Harry Currie Wed, 07 Oct 2009 07:11:54 +0000 #comment-174 Hello Tim, As a Canadian whose great grandparents emigrated to Canada from the Isle of Arran, circa 1849, I've always been fascinated by our origins. I've traced my direct line on Arran back to 1780, when our name was MacMhurrigh, and there the written records ran out. I can only presume we are descended from Muireadach Albannach, otherwise known as Muireadach O'Daly, an Irish poet, and that he brought literacy to Scotland, according to historian Ian Grimble. The only link I could find was that Arran was given to one Muirdach (various spellings) by the King of Norway after the so-called Battle of Largs, and again, presume this man to be a son or grandson of Muireadach Albannach and also a poet/bard/warrior. So I conveniently accepted that the Scots were a tribe of Irish who gradually took over from the Picts, etc. Now the evidence doesn't seem to support this, so I'm even more fascinated. While I now live in Thailand, I return to Canada to conduct orchestras and wind ensenbles, and I shall try to locate a copy of The Picts: A History, and be even more fascinated. Thanks. Hello Tim,

As a Canadian whose great grandparents emigrated to Canada from the Isle of Arran, circa 1849, I’ve always been fascinated by our origins. I’ve traced my direct line on Arran back to 1780, when our name was MacMhurrigh, and there the written records ran out. I can only presume we are descended from Muireadach Albannach, otherwise known as Muireadach O’Daly, an Irish poet, and that he brought literacy to Scotland, according to historian Ian Grimble. The only link I could find was that Arran was given to one Muirdach (various spellings) by the King of Norway after the so-called Battle of Largs, and again, presume this man to be a son or grandson of Muireadach Albannach and also a poet/bard/warrior. So I conveniently accepted that the Scots were a tribe of Irish who gradually took over from the Picts, etc. Now the evidence doesn’t seem to support this, so I’m even more fascinated. While I now live in Thailand, I return to Canada to conduct orchestras and wind ensenbles, and I shall try to locate a copy of The Picts: A History, and be even more fascinated. Thanks.

]]> Comment on Deconstructing Nechtan by Eochaidh MacDhalaigh OghaChruithne http://senchus.wordpress.com/2009/07/31/deconstructing-nechtan/#comment-171 Eochaidh MacDhalaigh OghaChruithne Sat, 22 Aug 2009 21:33:07 +0000 http://senchus.wordpress.com/?p=126#comment-171 What you wrote makes sense. King Brude son of the famous king named Maelchom of Gwynedd in North Wales, united the Southern Picts and Northern Picts in 560 C.E. Goddodin is the Votadini of Ptolemy's map of 140 C.E. Go = Fo (Vo, Dwarves = the Irish), -do = -taidh (multitude, the dh is not pronouced), and -din, of course = -daoine (people). The Pictish warriors on the Battle Stone of Aberlemno commemorating their victory at Dunichean in 683 B.C. shows them wearing Irish clothing. The Picts having been matrilineal explains the great mixing of Irish and Welsh in Southern Pictland. It's not really necessary if even possible to separate the Welsh element from the Irish element in Pictish history. Sort of like the Celt-Iberians. Check my web-page for more details. Na Fineachan Gaidhealach: The Day Before Mons Graupius What you wrote makes sense. King Brude son of the famous king named Maelchom of Gwynedd in North Wales, united the Southern Picts and Northern Picts in 560 C.E.

Goddodin is the Votadini of Ptolemy’s map of 140 C.E. Go = Fo (Vo, Dwarves = the Irish), -do =
-taidh (multitude, the dh is not pronouced), and
-din, of course = -daoine (people). The Pictish warriors on the Battle Stone of Aberlemno commemorating their victory at Dunichean in 683 B.C. shows them wearing Irish clothing.

The Picts having been matrilineal explains the great mixing of Irish and Welsh in Southern Pictland. It’s not really necessary if even possible to separate the Welsh element from the Irish element in Pictish history. Sort of like the Celt-Iberians.

Check my web-page for more details.

Na Fineachan Gaidhealach: The Day Before Mons Graupius

]]> Comment on Brunanburh and Burnswark by Chris http://senchus.wordpress.com/2009/04/30/brunanburh-and-burnswark/#comment-168 Chris Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:36:16 +0000 http://senchus.wordpress.com/?p=101#comment-168 This has been a debate that has really fascinated me but after endless hours of researching every available resource and opinion on this I am still left wondering if both places could be incorrect. I have read from others that an area in South Yorkshire is being overlooked. I found an excerpt from a book written in the first part of the last century that seems to give a lot of credence to a place south of York as being the site. In it was claimed that archaeological finds showed numerous charred bones in a field somewhere that indicated a mass pyre and burial. There were other notes as well though I would need to dig up the reference. In the end I suppose we shall never know. This has been a debate that has really fascinated me but after endless hours of researching every available resource and opinion on this I am still left wondering if both places could be incorrect. I have read from others that an area in South Yorkshire is being overlooked. I found an excerpt from a book written in the first part of the last century that seems to give a lot of credence to a place south of York as being the site. In it was claimed that archaeological finds showed numerous charred bones in a field somewhere that indicated a mass pyre and burial. There were other notes as well though I would need to dig up the reference.

In the end I suppose we shall never know.

]]> Comment on Brunanburh and Burnswark by Tim http://senchus.wordpress.com/2009/04/30/brunanburh-and-burnswark/#comment-167 Tim Mon, 10 Aug 2009 20:01:32 +0000 http://senchus.wordpress.com/?p=101#comment-167 Interesting. The Brun- in Brunanburh could mean brown if it isn't a personal name like Bruna. I looked up Pennersaughs in The Celtic Place Names Of Scotland: "This appears to be Pen yr Sax, Saxon's Head" (p.356) alternatively "Head of the Saxons" (p.180). Interesting. The Brun- in Brunanburh could mean brown if it isn’t a personal name like Bruna. I looked up Pennersaughs in The Celtic Place Names Of Scotland: “This appears to be Pen yr Sax, Saxon’s Head” (p.356) alternatively “Head of the Saxons” (p.180).

]]> Comment on About Me by Tim http://senchus.wordpress.com/about/#comment-166 Tim Mon, 10 Aug 2009 19:51:54 +0000 #comment-166 Things are a bit uncertain at present but I hope to put a new book out next year. Things are a bit uncertain at present but I hope to put a new book out next year.

]]> Comment on Brunanburh and Burnswark by Lindsay http://senchus.wordpress.com/2009/04/30/brunanburh-and-burnswark/#comment-165 Lindsay Sun, 09 Aug 2009 00:35:09 +0000 http://senchus.wordpress.com/?p=101#comment-165 Found this piece if history fascinating but knowing the area local to Burnswark i wonder if another hill near to ecclefechan has been ignored. The brown moor to the east of ecclefechan is adjoining pennersaughs. I believe the saxon meaning for pennersaughs is "head of the saxons"and that brunan can mean either burn(s) or brown Found this piece if history fascinating but knowing the area local to Burnswark i wonder if another hill near to ecclefechan has been ignored. The brown moor to the east of ecclefechan is adjoining pennersaughs. I believe the saxon meaning for pennersaughs is “head of the saxons”and that brunan can mean either burn(s) or brown

]]> Comment on Deconstructing Nechtan by Tim http://senchus.wordpress.com/2009/07/31/deconstructing-nechtan/#comment-162 Tim Sun, 02 Aug 2009 08:45:40 +0000 http://senchus.wordpress.com/?p=126#comment-162 Smyth in Warlords & Holy Men sees the two Gwids as one person (i.e. a Pict) but the names might be mere coincidence if Gwid was not an exclusively Pictish name. Smyth in Warlords & Holy Men sees the two Gwids as one person (i.e. a Pict) but the names might be mere coincidence if Gwid was not an exclusively Pictish name.

]]> Comment on Deconstructing Nechtan by Michelle http://senchus.wordpress.com/2009/07/31/deconstructing-nechtan/#comment-161 Michelle Sat, 01 Aug 2009 19:07:39 +0000 http://senchus.wordpress.com/?p=126#comment-161 Interesting. I wonder if Gwid son of Peithan is the Gwid who is the father of three Pictish kings in the time of Oswiu? Interesting. I wonder if Gwid son of Peithan is the Gwid who is the father of three Pictish kings in the time of Oswiu?

]]> Comment on The Lady of the Mercians by I left my heart phone charger in St Andrews (2 of 3) « A Corner of Tenth-Century Europe http://senchus.wordpress.com/2009/05/28/the-lady-of-the-mercians/#comment-159 I left my heart phone charger in St Andrews (2 of 3) « A Corner of Tenth-Century Europe Tue, 28 Jul 2009 13:34:46 +0000 http://senchus.wordpress.com/?p=112#comment-159 [...] may have been, must have worshipped elsewhere on the site. Melanie Maddox then told us about how Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians, used not just force of arms but forces of clerics in her reconquest of the North-West from the [...] [...] may have been, must have worshipped elsewhere on the site. Melanie Maddox then told us about how Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians, used not just force of arms but forces of clerics in her reconquest of the North-West from the [...]

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