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- ↑ The word nepos can mean grandson or nephew, but probably means nephew; some variants read "son of". Perhaps a female name, cognate with the Old Irish Ferb; ESSH p. 145, note 3. Variant forms include Uerp, Irb and Yrp. These are similar to the patronyms Uuirp, Erp, Erip, Irb, Yrb and Eirip which are used of Drest I and Nechtan I.
- ↑ Smyth, pp. 62–65 and table 2.
- ↑ Nechtan son of Guipno per Smyth, pp. 62–65 and table 2.
- ↑ Bannerman, pp. 92–94. This is a chronologically improbable theory as it would make a great-grandson of Áedán a king in the 6th century
- ↑ Early Sources, pp. cxx–cxxi, quoting Skene's Chronicles of the Picts & Scots. For the dating, see Smyth, p. 82; ESSH, p. 145, note 3.
- ↑ See also ESSH, p. 145, note 3, where it is noted that the Aberdeen Breviary says Pope Boniface IV (617–624) sent a mission to Pictland.
