02-19-2010, 10:19 PM
Leaders and saints yes. But it is an archaeological non-event and from the available evidence it is much of a picture of continuity we have in western Scotland by that time. That Columba and Fergus Mor of Dal Riata came from Ireland is not a problem, but probably the continuation of a process that started centuries ago.
"O niurt Ambrois ri Frangc ocus Brethan Letha."
"By the strenght of Ambrosius, king of the Franks and the Armorican Bretons."
Lebor Bretnach, Irish manuscript of the Historia Brittonum.
Agraes / Morcant map Conmail / Benjamin Franckaert
"By the strenght of Ambrosius, king of the Franks and the Armorican Bretons."
Lebor Bretnach, Irish manuscript of the Historia Brittonum.
Agraes / Morcant map Conmail / Benjamin Franckaert