Note 259 — Chapter IV · ETHNOLOGY OF BRITAIN.
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F, or as it is written in Welsh Ff, passes into P in Irish, as in Kyf, lame, Ir. ceap, etc. Of the two Alpins in the list, the father of the first is not given, but, as we shall see afterwards, his father was a Dalriadic Scot. The father of the second was Wroid; this is near the Cornish form, which would be Uored. In this form the name appears in an inscription on one of the sculptured stones at St. Vigeans. Mr. Whitley Stokes thus reads it:—
Drosten:
Ipe uoret
Elt For
Cus.
It is a good specimen of the mixture of forms we find in this part of the Pictish territory. Drosten is not a Welsh form but Gaelic; Ipe Uoret, Cornish; and Forcus unmistakably Irish. See Adamnan, ed. 1874, p. 120, for Forcus. An Ogham inscription on a stone at Aboyne has been thus read:—
Neahhtla robbait ceanneff
Maqqoi Talluorrh.
‘Neachtla or Neachtan immolated Kinneff to the sons of Talore.’ The word ‘robbait’ is the Irish word ‘robaith,’ used in the Book of Deer for a donation to the church.