Loarn mac Eirc
Loarn mac Eirc was a possible king of
eponymous ancestor of Cenél Loairn, a kindred whose name is preserved in Lorne
.
The
Senchus Fer n-Alban and other genealogies name Loarn's father as Erc
son of Eochaid Muinremuir. Loarn appears in Irish traditions as 'King of Alba' in the eighth- to twelfth-century tale "Of The Miracles of Cairnech Here" in the Lebhor Bretnach, the Irish version of the Historia Brittonum, and in the tenth- to twelfth-century tale Aided Muirchertach mac Erca. In these tales, mac Erca spends time with Loarn, his grandfather, before murdering him by setting him aflame.
Notes
- ^ J. M. P. Calise, Pictish sourcebook, Greenwood Press, 2002.
References
- ISBN 0-7011-2040-1
- ISBN 978-0-9570002-0-9
- ISBN 0-85115-375-5
- Menzies, Gordon (ed) (1971) Who are the Scots: A search for the origins of the Scottish nation. BBC.
- Woolf, Alex, From Pictland to Alba, 789-1070 Edinburgh University Press, 2007.