Fortriu (Latin: Verturiones; Old Irish: *Foirtrinn; Old English: Wærteras; Pictish: *Uerteru) was a Pictish kingdom recorded between the 4th and 10th...

of several chiefdoms, it came to be dominated by the Pictish kingdom of Fortriu from the seventh century. During this Verturian hegemony, Picti was adopted...

Fortriu was north of the Mounth, in the area visited by Columba. The case has to be accepted, and there can be little doubt that the core of Fortriu lay...

Bridei son of Beli ; died 692) was king of Fortriu and of the Picts from 671 until 692. His reign marks the start of the period known to historians as...

for Orkney and concluded that these are tribal names based on animals. Fortriu Kingdom of Ce Scotland in the Early Middle Ages Chadwick, Hector Munro...

the Kingdom of Alba, although the Irish annals continue to use Picts and Fortriu for half a century after 843. The king lists are thought to have been compiled...

between Strathclyde and Northumbria as far north as the Firth of Forth. Fortriu, a Pictish kingdom in the north, was added to Alba in the tenth century...

Buchan, Fife, and much of Aberdeenshire, disappeared soon after 900 AD. Fortriu, the largest Brittonic-Pictish kingdom which covered Strathearn, Morayshire...

Fortriu in 664. It is recorded in the Annals of Ulster as "Bellum Lutho Feirnn, .i. iFortrinn." meaning "The Battle of Luith Feirnn, i.e. in Fortriu."...

location; however, it is possible that it took place within Fortriu and probably close to the sea. Fortriu was the core territory of Pictland and was likely based...

kingdom of Fortriu on the shores of the Moray Firth. By the 9th century, the Gaels of Dál Riata (Dalriada) were subject to the kings of Fortriu of the family...

experience that he decides there will be no more such sacrifice. Blade of Fortriu is the second book of The Bridei Chronicles and tells of Ana and Faolan's...

Dál Riata Cat Ce Fortriu Fib Strathclyde Galloway Northumbria Earldom of Orkney...

in the 10th century as a successor to the dominant Pictish kingdom of Fortriu. The status of its rulers was ambiguous: being described in some sources...

enslavement and genocide. It has been suggested that an assault by forces from Fortriu in 681 in which Orkney was "annihilated" may have led to a weakening of...

(736–778). Some even claim that the Dál Riata usurped the kingship of Fortriu. From 795 onward there were sporadic Viking raids in Dál Riata. In the...

kings of Fortriu and of the Picts. Finguine may after 671 have formed a three-way alliance with Bridei son of Beli, king of Pictish Fortriu, and Bridei's...

royal region of the southern Picts, as Fortriu was in the north, before coming firmly under the grip of Fortriu during the 8th century Verturian Hegemony...

the Forth, the Pictish nations consisted at this time of the Kingdom of Fortriu to the north of the Mounth, and a "Southern Pictish Zone" between there...

highly navigable, and reached into the heart of the Pictish kingdom of Fortriu. They defeated Eogán mac Óengusa, king of the Picts, his brother Bran,...

which purports to be a prophecy, describes him as "the generous king of Fortriu", and says: The red, tall, golden-haired one, he will be pleasant to me...

early modern copies. It is a prophecy made in the Early Middle Ages.[[[Fortriu#Location#{{{section}}}|contradictory]]] The text consists of 205 debide...

Gododdin Strathclyde Rheged (also extended into modern England) Pictish: Fortriu Pictavia Cait Ce, situated in modern Mar and Buchan Circinn, perhaps situated...

Vita Columbae Book 2 below). He visited the pagan King Bridei, King of Fortriu, at his base in Inverness, winning Bridei's respect, although not his conversion...

territory in contemporary historical sources, after the dominant kingdom of Fortriu, but is not itself described in any source as a kingdom. Evans 2013, p...

Scotland: 11. Ross, Alasdair (2019). "Medieval European land assessment, Fortriu, and the dabhach". In Blackwell, Alice E. (ed.). Scotland in Early Medieval...

second element of Ath Fhotla or Atholl. Fortrenn is the genitive form of Fortriu, the best attested Pictish territory, now known to have been located in...

a disastrous defeat at the Battle of Nechtansmere against the Picts of Fortriu in which he lost his life. Ecgfrith was born in 645 to king Oswiu and Eanflæd...

(2012) Wolfskin (2002) Foxmask (2003) The Dark Mirror (2004) Blade of Fortriu (2005) The Well of Shades (2006) Heart's Blood (2009) Wildwood Dancing...

s.a. 904, report the death of Ímar ua Ímair (Ivar grandson of Ivar) in Fortriu in 904, making it possible that Ead (Áed ?) was a king, if not the High...