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Notes

1. On the etymology of the place name, see Watson 1926:15. On the long history of occupation at the site, see MacIvor 1981 and Alcock and Alcock 1990.

2. For a useful summary of the early kings of Strathclyde, see MacQuarrie 1993.

3. For discussion of Adomnan's Vita Columbae, see Herbert 1988, Picard 1982 and 1983.

4. The genealogies are collected in Bartrum 1966. The value of using this type of material as historical data is discussed in Dumville 1977a.

5. Bonedd Gwyr y Gogledd, "The Descent of the Men of the North", is found in the manuscript Peniarth 45, fos.291v-292r; the Harleian genealogies are preserved in Harl.3859 of c.1100.

6. A useful edition of the poem Miracula Nyniae Episcopi appears in MacQueen 1960. For an English translation see MacQueen 1990.

7. On the Historia's credentials as a valid historical source, see Jackson 1963 and the rather more pessimistic view offered in Dumville 1986.

8. The first two sentences of the passage appear thus in the Latin text quoted by Morris: "Contra illum quattor reges, Urbgen, et Riderchhen, et Guallauc, et Morcant, dimicaverunt. Deodric contra illum Urbgen cum filiis dimicabat fortiter" (Morris 1980:79).

9. On Aedan's military career, see Anderson 1973:145-9.

10. The origin of the Myrddin poems is examined in Jarman 1978.

11. For editions and English translations of both Lives, see Forbes 1874.

12. For early forms of the place name Partick, see Watson 1926:386.

13. The textual problems which cast a veil over so much of the Welsh material are summarised in Dumville 1977b.

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