Note 6 — Chapter I · The Early History—Before A. D. 843.

Tigh. 563. Bed. Hist. Ecc., l. 3, c. 4, 5, 26. Adam. Vit. Col. (Reeves), l. 1, c. 37; l. 2, c. 35. Craig Phadrick is supposed by Dr. Reeves to represent the Rath of Bruidi. The southern Picts had been already converted by Ninian, a British bishop, according to Beda (l. 3, c. 4); and if the conjecture is correct which assigns this conversion to the early part of the fifth century, it must have been effected during their temporary occupation of the province of Valentia. If reliance can be placed on traditional chronology, the migration of Cynedda Gwladig, the ancestor of the “noble tribes” of Wales, from Manau Guotodin—supposed to mean the “Debateable Land” between Picts, Scots, Angles, and Britons [Adam. Vit. Col. (Reeves), p. 371, d.]—must have taken place about the same period, and was caused, probably, by the encroachments of the Picts.