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PEEFACE. xxix Welsh genealogies, the pecligxees of Urien, Eederch, Guallauc, and Morcant follow in the same order. The pedigree of the kings of Wales, which is not here given, commences with Uen, son of Hywel dda, who reigned from 949 to 987, and thus the date of the compilation of these genealo- gies corresponds with that of the chronicle. The Welsh genealogies attached to this MS. of Nennius have not been hitherto published, and their main value for the history of Scotland consists in the fact that they contain a pedigree of the British kings of Strath Clyde, terminating with Run,^ the father of Eocha, king of Alban, by the daughter of Kenneth Macalpin, in which most of the recorded kings of Strath Clyde will be found. 3. The Tripartite Life of St. Patrick. — The Tripartite Among the lives of St. Patrick published by Col- Patrick. gan in his " Trias Thaumaturga," appears a Latin life, which he terms " Vita Tripartita." He so calls it, Ijecause it was a Latin translation, made by him- self from three Irish Mss., containing editions of the same life in old Irish. The Irish mss. used by Colgan cannot now be found or identified ; but the late Professor Currie, when employed to catalogue the Irish mss. in the British Museum, discovered ^ In the copies of the Pictish chronicle published by luiies and Pinkerton, this name has been printed Ku, but the letters K and R in the original can hardly be distinguished. If compared ^dth the name Ru, the twenty-eighth in the list of the Pictish kings, it will be seen that the letters are the same, and the letter u has a — over it, which has been omitted in their copies. Tho name is Ru7i, a common British name.