“In the list furnished by Innes the names _Maelcon_, _Elpin_, _Taran_ (i.e. thunder), _Uven_ (Owen), _Bargoit_, are those of personages well known in British history or tradition. _Wrgust_, which appears as Fergus in the Irish annals, is the Welsh _Gwrgust_. _Talorg_, _Talorgan_, evidently contain the British word _Tal_, forehead, a common element in proper names; ex. gr. _Talhaiarn_, Iron Forehead; _Taliesin_, splendid forehead, &c. _Taleurgain_ would signify in Welsh golden or splendid front. Three kings are represented as sons of _Wid_, in the Irish annals of _Foit_ or _Foith_. In Welsh orthography it would be _Gwydd_, wild; a common name in Brittany at the present day, under the form of _Gwez_. The names _Drust_, _Drostan_, _Wrad_, _Necton_ (in Bede _Naitan_), closely resemble the Welsh _Trwst_, _Trwstan_, _Gwriad_, _Nwython_. It will be sufficient to compare the entire list with the Irish or Highland genealogies, to be convinced that there must have been a material distinction between the two branches. Most of the Pictish names are totally unknown in Irish or Highland history, and the few that are equivalent, such as Angus and Fergus, generally differ in form. The Irish annalists have rather obscured the matter, by transforming those names according to their national system of orthography; but it is remarkable that a list in the ‘Book of Ballymote,’ partly given by Lynch in his ‘Cambrensis Eversus,’ agrees closely with Innes, even preserving the initial _w_ or _u_ where the Gaelic would require _f_. The philological inferences to be deduced from this document may be thus briefly summed up:--1. The names of the Pictish kings are not Gaelic, the majority of them being totally unknown both in the Irish and Highland dialects, while the few which have Gaelic equivalents decidedly differ from them in form. Cineod (Kenneth) and Domhnall or Donnel, appear to be the only exceptions. 2. Some of them cannot be identified as Welsh; but the greater number are either identical with or resemble known Cymric names; or approach more nearly to Welsh in structure and orthography than to any other known language. 3. There appears nevertheless to have been a distinction, amounting, at all events, to a difference in dialect. The Pictish names beginning with _w_ would in Welsh have _gw_, as _Gwrgust_ for _Wrgust_, and so of the rest. There may have been other differences sufficient to justify Bede’s statement that the Pictish language was distinct from the British, which it might very well be without any impeachment of its claim to be reckoned as closely cognate.”