Celtic Scotland : $b A history of ancient Alban. Volume 2 (of 3), Church and cultureSkene, W. F. (William Forbes)
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Celtic Scotland : $b A history of ancient Alban. Volume 2 (of 3), Church and culture
Skene, W. F. (William Forbes)
Celts -- Scotland; Civilization, Celtic; Scotland -- Antiquities, Celtic; Scotland -- History -- To 1603
was afterwards buried at Kylrimont; and the queen gives the place to God
and St. Andrew. They then cross the mountain called the Mounth, and
reach a place called Doldencha, but now Chondrohedalvan, where they meet
King Hungus returning from his expedition. The king prostrates himself
before the relics, and this place also is given to God and St. Andrew.
They then return across the Mounth to Monichi, where a church was built
in honour of God and the apostle; thence to Forteviot, where also a
similar church is built. King Hungus then went with the holy men to
Chilrymont, and, making a circuit round a great part of that place,
immolated it to God and St. Andrew for the erection of churches and
oratories. King Hungus and Bishop Regulus and the rest proceeded round
it seven times, Bishop Regulus carrying on his head the relics of St.
Andrew, his followers chanting hymns, and King Hungus following on foot,
and after him the magnates of the kingdom. Thus they commended that
place to God, and protected it with the king’s peace; and, in
commemoration, the holy men surrounded it with twelve stone crosses.
King Hungus afterwards gave to the basilica of the holy apostle, as a
parochia, the land between the sea called Ishundenema and the sea called
Sletheuma, and in the district adjacent to it the land within a line
drawn from Largo through Ceres to Naughton. King Hungus gave this place,
viz. Chilrymont, to God and St. Andrew his apostle, with waters,
meadows, fields, pastures, moors and woods, as a gift for ever, and
granted the place with such liberty that its inhabitants should be free
and for ever relieved from the burden of hosting, and building castles
and bridges, and all secular exactions. Bishop Regulus then chanted the
Alleluia, that God might protect that place in honour of the apostle;
and, in token of this freedom, King Hungus took a turf in presence of
the Pictish nobles, and laid it on the altar of St. Andrew, and offered
that same turf upon it. This part of the legend concludes with the names
of thirteen Pictish witnesses of royal race, whose names have been
apparently taken at random from the earliest part of the list of the
Pictish kings.
[Sidenote: Older legend belongs to foundation of monastery in sixth
century.]
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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