Drest II of the Picts
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Drest Gurthinmoch was a king of the Picts
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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
gwrdd, meaning great.
Picts
The Picts were a group of Late Iron Age and Early Mediaeval people living in what is now eastern and northern Scotland. There is an association with the distribution of brochs, place names beginning 'Pit-', for instance Pitlochry, and Pictish stones. They are recorded from before the Roman conquest...
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The Pictish Chronicle
Pictish Chronicle
The Pictish Chronicle is a name often given by historians to a list of the kings of the Picts beginning many thousand years before history was recorded in Pictavia and ending after Pictavia had been enveloped by Scotland...
king lists all give him a reign of 30 years between Nechtan
Nechtan I of the Picts
Nechtan son of Erip was a king of the Picts. The Pictish Chronicle king lists claim that he was the brother of Drest.The king lists supply a number of epithets for Nechtan: Morbet and Celchamoth and the Latin Magnus . He is said to have reigned for twenty-four years...
and Galan
Galan of the Picts
Galan Erilich was a king of the Picts.The Pictish Chronicle king lists have him reign for fifteen years between Drest Gurthinmoch and the joint rule of Drest son of Uudrost and Drest son of Girom.-References:...
. The meaning of the epithet
Epithet
An epithet or byname is a descriptive term accompanying or occurring in place of a name and having entered common usage. It has various shades of meaning when applied to seemingly real or fictitious people, divinities, objects, and binomial nomenclature. It is also a descriptive title...
Gurthinmoch is unknown, but the first part may be related to the Welsh
Welsh language
Welsh is a member of the Brythonic branch of the Celtic languages spoken natively in Wales, by some along the Welsh border in England, and in Y Wladfa...
gwrdd, meaning great.