General Notes

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BIOGRAPHY
It was after this man that Dalriada was named. The Dal Riata, the people from which the Scottish kings are descended from, were originally settled on the north east coast of Ireland. Perhaps as early as the third century, and no later than the fifth century, they began to settle on the west coast of what is now Scotland . It is in the late fifth century that the names in the genealogy begin to take on some historical credibility. In any case, the ruling dynasty of the Dal Riata had established itself in the area corresponding to modern Argyll by the late fifth century. The most important information for this period is the text, probably first written in the seventh century, known as the Senchus Fer nAlban, or 'History of the Men of Scotland.' Its early material however, seems to have far too neat an appearance. Rather than make a fruitless effort to separate fact from fiction, I will instead quote from the Senchus, and let the reader come up with their own conclusions. (The genealogies make Eochaid Munremar a son of Oengus Fir, the last name in the above section.) Two sons of Eochaid Munremar .i. Erc and Olchu. Erc, moreover , had twelve sons .i. six of them took possession of Scotland .i. two Loarnds .i. Loarnd Bec and Loarnd Mor, two Mac Nisses .i. Mac isse Bec c and Mac Nisse Mor, two Ferguses .i. Fergus Bec and Fergus Mor. Si x others in Ireland .i. Mac Decill, Oengus, whose seed, however, is in Scotland, Enna, Bresal, Fiachra, Dubthach. Others say that this Erc had another son who was called Muredach. Olchu, son of Eochaid Munremar , had, moreover, eleven sons who live in Murbolc in Dal Riata, Muredach Bolc,
Aed, Dare, Oengus, Tuathal, Anbolmaid, Eochaid, Setna, Brian, Oinu, Cormac. (Translation Bannerman)