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ALBA AND EARLY SCOTLAND (1328 words) |
 | It is possibly a lesser known fact that St. Andrew (rather than St. Peter) was "enthroned" as patron of the Picts by King Oengus I. He was probably influenced in the choice of saint by the Columban Christians from the sacred Isle of Iona. |
| Oengus II was killed by the Scots, after being forced to divide his army during a battle with the Vikings to the north, when Alpin of the Scots attacked from the south in 834. |
| Trapped and unable to defend themselves, the surviving Picts were then murdered from above and their bodies, clothes and ornaments plundered." In Lion in the North, John Prebble states that seven earls of Dalriada, his kinsmen, were included in the massacre because they might have disputed his claim to Ard-Righ Albainn. |
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| By 685, when King Bridei mac Bile defeated Northumbrian invaders at the battle of Nechtansmere, or Dunnichen Moss, in Angus, there was one high king of the Picts, whose centre of power lay at Fortriu in Strathearn but whose authority stretched over a group of peoples from the Forth to beyond the Moray Firth. |
| The real “apostle of the Picts” was not Columba but his successor and hagiographer, Adomnan, who established a network of contacts with kings and the aristocracy, not only in Ireland and Dál Riata, but in Pictland and Northumberland as well. |
| The merging of different peoples under a high king of the Picts in the 8th and 9th centuries was accompanied by the cultivation of different saints and the compilation of the genealogy of kings. |
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