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The king-lists in the Pictish Chronicle provide quite a few Pictish male names, such as Alpin/Elpin, Drust, Talorcan, Cinad, Bridei/Brude and Nechtan.
Archive 2010-01-01 Carla 2010
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The king-lists in the Pictish Chronicle provide quite a few Pictish male names, such as Alpin/Elpin, Drust, Talorcan, Cinad, Bridei/Brude and Nechtan.
Pictish female names Carla 2010
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What added to Sergeant More M'Alpin's distress upon the occasion was, that the chief by whom this change had been effected, was, by tradition and common opinion, held to represent the ancient leaders and fathers of the expelled fugitives; and it had hitherto been one of Sergeant More's principal subjects of pride to prove, by genealogical deduction, in what degree of kindred he stood to this personage.
A Legend of Montrose Walter Scott 1801
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The delight which I had in Sergeant M'Alpin's conversation, related not only to his own adventures, of which he had encountered many in the course of a wandering life, but also to his recollection of numerous
A Legend of Montrose Walter Scott 1801
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She even graduated from the same boarding school Diana attended, the Institut Alpin Videmanette.
William and Kate Christopher Andersen 2011
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She even graduated from the same boarding school Diana attended, the Institut Alpin Videmanette.
William and Kate Christopher Andersen 2011
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Elpin or Alpin in the Pictish lists of Kenneth MacAlpin fame looks like a form of the name Elphin or Elfin that appears in Brittonic genealogies, some aren't.
Brittonic names in ‘Anglo-Saxon’ genealogies, and vice versa Carla 2009
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Alpin declaró que fue invitado a visitar el hogar del acusado por inspectores de la sociedad nacional para la prevención de la crueldad contra la infancia Tanto la casita como los niños estaban muy sucios.
El Funcionario Loco 2008
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More generally, the influence of clerics drawn from the Irish Church, whose sway in north Britain was restored and extended by the mac Alpin dynasty, must surely have played an important part in the cultural remoulding of the country.
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The sept of MacGregor claimed a descent from Gregor, or Gregorius, third son, it is said, of Alpin King of Scots, who flourished about 787.
Rob Roy 2005
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