Abstract
a regia urbs before the monastery was founded;4 a statement too readily suggested by the name to carry much weight. The foundation legend in both its versions names a Pictish king as the founder. If he is to be identified with a historical king at all, he must be one of the two whom we know as Angus I (7297-761) and Angus II (820-834). The earlier Angus, in whose reign the abbot Tuathalan died, has the more obvious claim. Both were over-kings of the Picts, and each of them was primarily king of Fortriu, a province roughly equatable with southern Perthshire.5 Fife, being contiguous to Fortriu and separated from the rest of the country by the firths of Forth and Tay, may have been in some special way subordinate to kings of Fortriu. But it is possible that the rig in virtue of whom Kinrimund got its name had been kinglets of Fife, or even of some still more local unit corresponding to an Irish tuath. The place, though fairly accessible by both land and sea, is not an obvious one for a royal fortress. The name Cursus Apri, by which a territory round Kinrimund
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