ᚅᚓᚆᚆᚈᚑᚅᚄ
Pictish
Proper noun
ᚅᚓᚆᚆᚈᚑᚅᚄ (nehhtons)
- alternative reading of ᚅᚓᚆᚆᚈᚑᚅᚅ: a male given name, Nechtan
Usage notes
- A term found on the Lunnasting stone, accepted as Pictish and read as the personal name nehhtons by Katherine Forsyth[1] and Gordon Donaldson.[2] Allen and Anderson read the term as ᚅᚓᚆᚆᚈᚑᚅᚅ nehhtonn instead.[3]
References
- ^ K. Forsyth, The Ogham Inscriptions of Scotland: An Edited Corpus (unpublished PhD, archived by Harvard University, (1996)
- ^ Gordon Donaldson, The Edinburgh history of Scotland, volume 1 (1966)
- ^ J. R. Allen and J. Anderson, The Early Christian Monuments of Scotland, Part III (1903; Edinburgh: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland)