- The
Battle of Dun
Nechtain or
Battle of
Nechtansmere (Old Irish: Cath Dúin
Nechtáin; Old Welsh:
Gueith Linn Garan) was
fought between the Picts, led by...
- Nechtan,
Nectan or
Neithon may
refer to:
Nechtan Morbet (fl. 5th or 6th century), king of the
Picts Nechtan nepos Uerb (fl. 7th century), king of the Picts...
-
Battle of Dun
Nechtain, when
Ecgfrith was
killed and the
Northumbrian army destro**** by Bridei's forces. Bridei's
victory at Dun
Nechtain marked the end...
- modern-day
Inverness and Moray),
particularly following the
Battle of Dun
Nechtain. This view is, however, not universal.
Gordon Noble and
Nicholas Evans...
-
feigned flight to the mountains, at what is now
called the
Battle of Dun
Nechtain,
located at
either Dunnichen in
Angus or
Dunachton in Badenoch. This defeat...
- and Forfar. It is
close to
Dunnichen Hill, at
which the
Battle of Dun
Nechtain is po****rly
believed to have been fought. The
church is part of the parish...
- the
Vedic god Apám Nápát, the
Roman god Neptūnus, and the Old
Irish god
Nechtain.
Although such a god has been
solidly reconstructed in Proto-Indo-Iranian...
- Dindsenchas :
Boand I
Nechtain mac
Labrada laind,
diarbo ben Bóand, bágaimm,
topur diamair bói 'na dún, ****a
maided cech mí-rún. Ní
fhail nodécced dia...
- Bridei's (671–93)
victory over the
Northumbrians at the
Battle of Dun
Nechtain (685). Adomnán died in 704, and
became a
saint in
Scottish and
Irish tradition...
- has
suggested Dunachton as a
potential location for the
Battle of Dun
Nechtain in 685 in
which the
Picts permanently secured independence from the Northumbrians...
