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	Battle of Nechtansmere
		The Battle of Nechtansmere was fought between the Picts and Northumbrians on May 20, 685.
		They met in battle on May 20 near Dunnichen[?]; the Picts pretended to retreat, drawing the Northumbrians into the swamp of Nechtansmere.
		Little is known about the actual battle; it was briefly described by the Venerable Bede in the 8th century.
	ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ba/Battle_of_Nechtansmere.html (150 words)

	Ecgfrith of Northumbria
		In 684 Ecgfrith sent an expedition to Ireland under his general Berht, which seems to have been unsuccessful.
		In 685, against the advice of Cuthbert, he led a force against the Picts under his cousin Burde, son of Bile, was lured by a feigned flight into their mountain fastnesses, and slain at Nechtansmere (now Dunnichen[?]) in Forfarshire[?].
		Bede dates the beginning of the decline of Northumbria from his death.
	ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ec/Ecgfrith_of_Northumbria.html (235 words)

	Aberlemno - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Western Stone is a Class 2 stone showing a Celtic Cross on one side, and a battle scene on the reverse.
		The Kirkyard Stone is another Class 2 stone, the West face is inscribed with a Celtic Cross flanked by patterns, the east with a battle scene, reputedly depicting the battle of Nechtansmere.
		A hole has been bored through the upper part of the stone some time after its sculpting.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Aberlemno (232 words)

	The Pictish Kings
		The battle which followed, called the Battle of Nechtansmere by the English and Dunnichen by Caledonians, remains one of the most significant turning points in ancient history and has shaped the character of the land for the next 1300 years.
		Bridei was followed by Taran, son of Enfidach and he was in form followed by Brude/Bridei IV, possibly the grandson of the Brude of Nechtansmere fame.
		He also fought the Northumbrians (this time far south of Pictland) and is thought to have destroyed yet another Northumbrian host and killed a Teutonic sub-king in the Lothians.
	members.tripod.com /~Halfmoon/pict2.html (2249 words)

	Scotland - Printer-friendly - MSN Encarta
		The Angles were decisively beaten off at the battle of Nechtansmere in Angus in 685.
		The same formidable barrier of the Forth also helps explain why, until the 10th century, Scotland was naturally divided into separate kingdoms on either side.
		By 685, when King Bridei mac Bile defeated Northumbrian invaders at the battle of Nechtansmere, or Dunnichen Moss, in Angus, there was one high king of the Picts, whose centre of power lay at Fortriu in Strathearn but whose authority stretched over a group of peoples from the Forth to beyond the Moray Firth.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /text_761561065___76/Scotland.html (10366 words)

	Story of Scotland: Scots, Picts, Angles & Britons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		By the time Ecgfrith and his elite warriors formed up for a defense, much of their fyrd (common levies) were already dead, wounded or in full retreat.
		Up until the Battle of Nechtansmere, the Angles had often had their way against the Scots and Picts.
		The Battle of Nechtansmere put paid to Northumbrian ambitions to advance their territory north.
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	History Forum > Celtic Genocide? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		They depended, however, on a new set of political circumstances, most important of which was the sharp decline in the influence of the kingdom of Northumbria.
		For some, that decline can be seen to have begun as a direct result of the defeat of the Northumbrians at Nechtansmere, which put to an end the short-lived career of Bishop Trumwine and the see of Abercorn, to which he had been appointed only four years before, in 681.
		For, as we have seen, the Pictish king victorious at Nechtansmere was Bridei mac Bile, who may have had a father who was a Strathclyde Briton.
	www.simaqianstudio.com /forum/lofiversion/index.php?t5221.html (3892 words)

	This Month in Celtic History -- May 2001
		The battle of the Haughs of Cromdale completely eliminated any Jacobite threat to William in Scotland, and enabled him to concentrate his forces in Ireland for another decisive victory over James at the Battle of the Boyne two months later, with results that have reverberated through Irish history right up to the present day.
		More than a thousand years before that, 20 May 685 saw the battle of Nechtansmere in which the emerging national identity of Scotland was preserved through the defeat of invading Northumbrian Saxons.
		Again in Ireland, the 24th of May 1798 marked the outbreak of the great uprising of 1798 that, although a failure, would define the ideology of the Irish nationalist movement for the next 200 years.
	www.celticleague.org /history_5-01.html (763 words)

	ferret
		OF In 20 May 685, the Picts had been threatened by the Angles of Northumbria, who were trying to increase their lands to the north.
		At the battle of Nechtansmere, the Picts defeated the Angles and put to rest any further Northumbrian (Angle) northward expansion.
		Had the battle gone the other way, a Nation called Scotland might never have happened.
	members.tripod.com /~Hal_MacGregor/gregor/vikings.html (2303 words)

	Minutes of April 1999 Meeting * Caid College of Heralds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Crescent notes that there is temporal dissonance between someone with a later name (Eilidh) claiming to be at a 7th C. battle (Nechtansmere).
		We are unable to document the form na Saighdearan na Nechtansmere as a period epithet meaning the soldier at Nechtansmere, which is the submitter's intended meaning.
		However, the primary reason for return is that while we are reasonably certain that of the soldier of the Nechtansmere is not correct for the submitter's intended meaning or in isolation, we are unable to form a plausible and grammatically correct epithet that is close to either the submission or the submitter's intended meaning.
	www.sca-caid.org /herald/minutes/1999/min9904.html (2166 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Baring-Gould's "Family Names and Their History" asserts that Clan MacNachtan "descends from Nechtan, a Pictish King." Many other writers echo this legend.
		In 685, King Brude and his army of Picts destroyed an invading force of Northumbrian Saxons on a battlefield in a region known as Nechtansmere, or Nechtan's marsh.
		MacNauchtan of Argyll is the senior line of Clan MacNauchtan from which all other branches -- including the MacNauchts of Kilquanity -- descend.
	members.aol.com /jimmcnitt/macnaught (1673 words)

	Battles
		Some 10 km south of Aberlemno, near the modern village of Dunnichen, a great battle took place in AD 685.
		Known as the Battle of Nechtansmere, this was a decisive victory for the Picts over the Angles of Northumbria, who had forcibly occupied the southern part of Pictland for the previous thirty years and who, after their defeat, were never again a power in lands north of the Forth.
		It has been argued, very plausibly, that this is the battle portrayed at Aberlemno on a pictish slab to be found in the churchyard.
	www.fortunecity.com /bally/leitrim/147/battles.html (7893 words)

	St. Trumwin - Catholic Online
		He based his mission in the monastery of Abercorn on the Firth of Forth.
		When his political patron King Egfrith of Northumbria was slain by the Picts at the Battle of Nechtansmere, Trumwin was forced to flee with all of his monks to the safety of the south.
		Taking up residence at Whitby, England, he spent his remaining days there as a monk.
	www.catholic.org /saints/saint.php?saint_id=2381 (429 words)

	May 21 Events in History
		May 21, 996 Pope Gregory V crowns his cousin Otto III German emperor
		May 21, 685 Battle at Nechtansmere: Picten beat Northumbrians
		May 21, 143 Earliest known date in Amer-pre Mayan king Harvest-Bergvorst installed
	www.brainyhistory.com /days/may_21.html (2107 words)

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