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Fortriu or the the Kingdom of Fortriu is the name given by historians for an ancient Pictish kingdom, and often used synonymously with Pictland in general. It was almost certainly located in around Moray and Easter Ross in northern Scotland, but has tradionally been located in and around Strathearn in central Scotland. This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...
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Moray (Moireibh in Gaelic), one of the 32 unitary council regions (or areas) of Scotland, lies in the north-east of the country and borders on the regions of Aberdeenshire and Highland. ...
Easter Ross is a loosely defined area in the east of the administrative county of Ross and Cromarty. ...
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The word itself is a modern reconstruction; it is the hypothetical Old Irish nominative form for a word that occurs only in the genitive or dative cases, as Fortrenn and Fortrinn respectively. The reconstructed Pictish form would be Verturio, and indeed one of the two main Pictish tribes recorded by Roman writers is the Verturiones. [1] The change occured because Goidelic speakers almost always render what in Brythonic is either V, W or Gw with an F; compare for instance the Scottish Gaelic Fionn with Welsh Gwyn, both meaning white. Note: This page contains phonetic information presented in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) using Unicode. ...
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 Sueno's Stone Located in Forres, this gigantic post-Pictish monument marks some kind of military triumph. Traditionally the kingdom has been seen as centered on central Scotland, equivalent to the Kingdom of the Southern Picts, with a heartland perhaps in Strathearn. Over the last century or so this has become a scholarly consensus.[2] However, new research by Alex Woolf seems to have destroyed this consensus, if not the idea itself. As Woolf has pointed out, the only basis for it had been that a battle had taken place in Strathearn in which the Men of Fortriu had taken part. This is obviously an unconvincing reason on its own, because there are two Strathearns - one in the south, and one in the north - and, moreover, every battle has to be fought outside the territory of one of the combatants. By contrast, a northern recension of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle makes it clear that Fortriu was north of the Mounth (i.e. the eastern Grampians), in the area visited by Columba.[3] The Prophecy of Berchán tells us that King Dub was killed in the Plain of Fortriu.[4] Another source, the Chronicle of the Kings of Alba, tells us that King Dub was killed at Forres,[5] a location in Moray. Moreover, additions to the Chronicle of Melrose confirm that Dub was killed by the men of Moray at Forres. [6] Download high resolution version (600x800, 87 KB)Suenos stone in Forres Author: Wojsyl File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
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The large poem known as the Prophecy of Berchán, written perhaps in the twelfth century, but purporting to be a prophecy made in the Early Middle Ages states that "Mac Bethad, the glorious king of Fortriu, will take [Scotland]." [7] As Mac Bethad was Mormaer of Moray before he became King of Scots, there can be no doubt that Moray was how Fortriu was still understood in High Middle Ages. Fortriu is also mentioned as one of the seven ancient Pictish kingdoms in a thirteenth century source known as de Situ Albanie. (11th century - 12th century - 13th century - other centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 12th century was that century which lasted from 1101 to 1200. ...
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There can be little or no doubt then that Fortriu centered on northern Scotland. Indeed, other Pictish scholars, such as James E. Fraser are now taking it for granted that Fortriu was in the north of Scotland,[8] centered on Moray and Easter Ross, where most early Pictish monuments are located. Hence, it is in these areas that the united kingdom of the Picts came from, perhaps acquiring southern Pictland after the expulsion of the Northumbrians by King Bridei at the Battle of Dunnichen. Easter Ross is a loosely defined area in the east of the administrative county of Ross and Cromarty. ...
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Relocating Fortriu north of the Mounth increases the importance of the Vikings. After all, the Viking impact on the north was greater than in the south, and in the north, the Vikings actually conquered and made permanent territorial gains. So the creation of Alba or Scotland from Pictland, traditionally associated with a conquest by Cináed mac Ailpín in 843, can perhaps be better understood in this context. The name Viking is a loan from the native Scandinavian term for the Norse seafaring warriors who raided the coasts of Scandinavia, Europe and the British Isles from the late 8th century to the 11th century, the period of European history referred to as the Viking Age. ...
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References
- ^ Watson, History of the Celtic Place-Names, pp. 68-9.
- ^ see virtually any work dealing with the Picts before 2005.
- ^ Woolf "Dun Nechtain, Fortriu and the Geography of the Picts."
- ^ A.O. Anderson, Early Sources, Vol. I, p. 474.
- ^ ibid, p. 473.
- ^ ibid, p. 473-4.
- ^ ibid., p. 601.
- ^ for instance, in the Pictish Course at the University of Edinburgh.
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Bibliography - Anderson, Alan Orr, Early Sources of Scottish History: AD 500-1286, 2 Vols, (Edinburgh, 1922)
- Hudson, Benjamin T., Kings of Celtic Scotland, (Westport, 1994)
- Watson, W. J., History of the Celtic Place-Names of Scotland, (Edinburgh, 1926), reprinted, with an Introduction, full Watson bibliography and corrigenda by Simon Taylor (Edinburgh, 2004).
- Woolf, Alex, "Dun Nechtain, Fortriu and the Geography of the Picts", (forthcoming)
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