Welcome to the British History Podcast. My name is Jamie and this is episode 132, the

Scottcast, part 9, St. Columba and King Brood. This show is free and independent due

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This episode will cover the years 506-584 and will focus primarily upon King Brood, also

known as King Brydie, the King of the Northern Picks, which is a kingdom that's also referred

to as Fortreux and St. Columba, the man credited with converting the Northern Picks. And he

was also a lesser known monster expert.

Alright, let's get to it. And today we're going to talk about the last of the three kings

of Pickland who the Pictus Chronicle has anything to say about beyond how long they ruled.

But before we begin, I want to make it clear that to a certain extent we're going to be

reading tea leaves here, and we only have a few sources to draw from. I'm going to do my

best to stitch them all together for you, but by and large, this information is coming

from scattered references in the Pictus Chronicle, Beads work, The Irish Annals, and The Life

of St. Columba. That's really it. So we're going to do the best we can and see what we can

learn. Now, as you recall from the last episode, we ended with the reign of the second of the

three major Pictus kings, Nectin the Great. And then, in 506, King Nectin, son of

Arab, died. And he was succeeded by Dr. Guthamach, who reigned for 30 years. And then he was

succeeded by Galanon, who ruled for another 12 years. And we know almost nothing about

those two kings. But what we do know is that after Galanon died, things really went sideways

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