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Nechtan is a
figure in
Irish mythology who is ****ociated with a
spring marking the
source of the
River Boyne,
known as
Nechtan's Well or the Well of Wisdom...
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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...
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Nechtan, son of Erip, was the king of the
Picts from 456 to 480. The king
lists supply a
number of
epithets for
Nechtan:
Morbet and
Celchamoth and the...
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Naiton son of Der-Ilei (Old Irish:
Nechtan mac Derilei; died 732), also
called Naiton son of
Dargart (Old Irish:
Nechtan mac Dargarto), was king of the Picts...
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Nechtan grandson of Uerb, was king of the
Picts from 595 to
around 616, and may be the same
person as the
Neithon son of
Guipno who
ruled the kingdom...
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Carbada Lugh
Lugaid mac Con Roí
Lugaid Riab
nDerg Macha Mesgegra Mórrígan
Nechtan Scéne Scáthach
Uathach Weapons Caladbolg Gae Bulg
Places Emain Macha Cruachan...
- by 724,
placing them in the
reigns of the sons of Der-Ilei,
Bridei and
Nechtan.
Irish annals (the
Annals of Ulster,
Annals of Innisfallen)
refer to some...
- Northumbria, as seen in the
reign of
Nechtan mac Der Ilei. The
reported expulsion of
Ionan monks and
clergy by
Nechtan in 717 may have been
related to the...
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competed for
power in Pictland: Drest;
Nechtan; Alpín, of whom
little is known; and Óengus, who was a
partisan of
Nechtan, and
perhaps his
acknowledged heir...
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Nechtan of
Aberdeen is the
first Bishop of
Aberdeen after the seat of the
bishopric had been
moved to
Aberdeen from Mortlach. The only
contemporary sources...
