Drest Gurthinmoch was a king of the
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 e ...
from 480 to 510.
The ''
Pictish Chronicle'' king lists all give him a reign of 30 years between
Nechtan and
Galan. The meaning of the
epithet Gurthinmoch is unknown, but the first part may be related to the
Welsh
Welsh may refer to:
Related to Wales
* Welsh, referring or related to Wales
* Welsh language, a Brittonic Celtic language spoken in Wales
* Welsh people
People
* Welsh (surname)
* Sometimes used as a synonym for the ancient Britons (Celtic peop ...
''gwrdd'', meaning great, and perhaps moch in this case correlates with the same word in Welsh which means pig.
References
*
Anderson, Alan Orr, ''Early Sources of Scottish History A.D 500–1286'', volume 1. Reprinted with corrections. Paul Watkins, Stamford, 1990.
External links
Pictish Chronicle
510 deaths
Pictish monarchs
6th-century Scottish monarchs
Year of birth unknown
5th-century Scottish monarchs
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