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ᚅᚓᚆᚆᚈᚑᚅᚄ

Pictish edit

 
a drawing of the inscription on the Lunnasting stone

Proper noun edit

ᚅᚓᚆᚆᚈᚑᚅᚄ (nehhtons)

  1. Alternative reading of ᚅᚓᚆᚆᚈᚑᚅᚅ: Nechtan, a male given name. A term found on the Lunnasting stone, accepted as Pictish and read as the personal name nehhtons by Katherine Forsyth[1] and Gordon Donaldson.[2] Allen and Anderson read the term as ᚅᚓᚆᚆᚈᚑᚅᚅ nehhtonn instead.[3]

References edit

  1. ^ K. Forsyth, The Ogham Inscriptions of Scotland: An Edited Corpus (unpublished PhD, archived by Harvard University, (1996)
  2. ^ Gordon Donaldson, The Edinburgh history of Scotland, volume 1 (1966)
  3. ^ J. R. Allen and J. Anderson, The Early Christian Monuments of Scotland, Part III (1903; Edinburgh: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland)
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