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The Pictish Chronicle is a name often given by historians to a list of the kings
List of Kings of the Picts

The list of kings of the Picts is based on the Pictish Chronicle king lists. These are late documents and do not record the dates when the kings reigned....
 of the Picts
Picts

The Picts were a confederation of tribes in what was later to become eastern and northern Scotland from Roman Empire times until the 10th century....
 beginning many thousand years before history was recorded in Pictavia and ending after Pictavia had been enveloped by Scotland
Scotland

conventional_long_name = ScotlandAlba|common_name= Scotland|image_flag = Flag of Scotland.svg|flag_width = 130px...
. The original (albeit lost) manuscript seems to date from the early years of the reign of Kenneth II of Scotland
Kenneth II of Scotland

Cin?ed mac Ma?l Coluim, Anglicisation as Kenneth II, and nicknamed An Fionnghalach, "The Fratricide" was Kingdom of Scotland . The son of Malcolm I of Scotland , he succeeded Cuil?n of Scotland on the latter's death at the hands of Amdarch of Strathclyde in 971....
 (who ruled Scotland from 971 until 995) since he is the last king mentioned and the chronicler does not know the length of his reign.






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The Pictish Chronicle is a name often given by historians to a list of the kings
List of Kings of the Picts

The list of kings of the Picts is based on the Pictish Chronicle king lists. These are late documents and do not record the dates when the kings reigned....
 of the Picts
Picts

The Picts were a confederation of tribes in what was later to become eastern and northern Scotland from Roman Empire times until the 10th century....
 beginning many thousand years before history was recorded in Pictavia and ending after Pictavia had been enveloped by Scotland
Scotland

conventional_long_name = ScotlandAlba|common_name= Scotland|image_flag = Flag of Scotland.svg|flag_width = 130px...
. The original (albeit lost) manuscript seems to date from the early years of the reign of Kenneth II of Scotland
Kenneth II of Scotland

Cin?ed mac Ma?l Coluim, Anglicisation as Kenneth II, and nicknamed An Fionnghalach, "The Fratricide" was Kingdom of Scotland . The son of Malcolm I of Scotland , he succeeded Cuil?n of Scotland on the latter's death at the hands of Amdarch of Strathclyde in 971....
 (who ruled Scotland from 971 until 995) since he is the last king mentioned and the chronicler does not know the length of his reign. All except the king-list, survives only from the Poppleton Manuscript
Poppleton manuscript

The Poppleton Manuscript is the name given to the fourteenth century codex likely compiled by Robert of Poppleton, a Carmelite friar who was the Prior of Hulne Priory, near Alnwick....
, dating to the 14th century.

There are actually several versions of the Pictish Chronicle. The so-called `A' text is probably the oldest, the fullest, and seems to have fewer errors than other versions. It is in three parts:

  1. An account of the origins of the Picts, mostly from the Etymologies of Isidore of Seville
    Isidore of Seville

    Saint Isidore of Seville was Archbishop of Seville for more than three decades and has the reputation of being one of the greatest scholars of the early Middle Ages....
    .
  2. A list of Pictish kings.
  3. Occasionally included is the Chronicle of the Kings of Alba
    Chronicle of the Kings of Alba

    The Chronicle of the Kings of Alba, or Scottish Chronicle, is a short written chronicle of the Kings of Scots of Alba, covering the period from the time of Kenneth I of Scotland until the reign of Kenneth II of Scotland ....
    .


It is evident that the latter two sections were originally written in Gaelic
Middle Irish language

Middle Irish is the name given by historical linguistics to the Goidelic languages used from the 10th to 12th centuries; it is therefore a contemporary of late Old English and early Middle English....
 since a few Gaelic words have not been translated into Latin.

See also

  • Annals of Ulster
    Annals of Ulster

    The Annals of Ulster are a chronicle of Middle Ages Ireland. The entries span the years between Anno Domini 431 and AD 1540. The entries up to AD 1489 were compiled in the late 15th century by the scribe Ruaidhr? ? Luin?n, under his patron Cathal ?g Mac Maghnusa on the island of Belle Isle on Lough Erne in the province of Ulster....


Bibliography

  • A.O.Anderson: Early Sources of Scottish History (Vol. I) (1922)
  • M.O.Anderson: Kings & Kingship in Early Scotland (ISBN 0-7011-1930-6) (1973)
  • H.M.Chadwick: Early Scotland (1949)
  • B.T.Hudson: Kings of Celtic Scotland (ISBN 0-313-29087-3) (1994)


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