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Battle Of Luith Feirn
The Battle of ''Luith Feirn'' took place within the Picts, Pictish kingdom of Fortriu in 664. It is recorded in the ''Annals of Ulster'' as "''Bellum Lutho Feirnn, .i. iFortrinn.''" meaning "The Battle of Luith Feirnn, i.e. in Fortriu.". This is the first explicit mention of Fortriu in contemporary Irish chronicles, though the cognate ''Verturiones'' had been mentioned by the Roman writer Ammianus Marcellinus in the late 4th century as one of the Pictish peoples participating in the Barbarian Conspiracy of 367–368. The participants in the battle are unrecorded, but it may be connected to the accession of the king of Fortriu Drest son of Donuel, after the death of his brother Gartnait IV, Gartnait son of Donuel in 663. The location of ''Luith Feirn'', meaning "alder-gate", is not known for certain; but places called Leitirfearn and Leitir Fearna, meaning "alder-hillside" exist on the south side of Loch Oich in the Great Glen, so it's possible that the battle site was nearby. Refer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Picts
The Picts were a group of peoples who lived in what is now northern and eastern Scotland (north of the Firth of Forth) during Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. Where they lived and what their culture was like can be inferred from early medieval texts and Pictish stones. Their Latin name, , appears in written records from the 3rd to the 10th century. Early medieval sources report the existence of a distinct Pictish language, which today is believed to have been an Insular Celtic language, closely related to the Common Brittonic, Brittonic spoken by the Celtic Britons, Britons who lived to the south. Picts are assumed to have been the descendants of the Caledonians, Caledonii and other British Iron Age, Iron Age tribes that were mentioned by Roman historians or on the Ptolemy's world map, world map of Ptolemy. The Pictish kingdom, often called Pictland in modern sources, achieved a large degree of political unity in the late 7th and early 8th centuries through the expa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
