At first, it makes the novel slightly staid, since Drest is so capable: What could possibly get in her way?
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Together, Drest and the reader are pulled into trap after trap, until it's clear we're in the hands of a master storyteller.
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In fact, she knows her family so well she imagines her brothers' and father's voices in her head ("Drest, lass, you must do something").
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But Drest is a ferocious heroine, and after finding a wounded knight left behind by the enemy, she conjures a plan to travel to Faintree Castle and exchange the knight for her family before they're hanged.
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Drest (Scottish Gaelic: Drest mac Talorgan), was king of the Picts from 782 until 783, succeeding his father Talorgan.
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Galan Erilich was a king of the Picts from 510 to 522. The Pictish Chronicle king lists have him reign for fifteen years between Drest Gurthinmoch and the joint rule of Drest son of Uudrost and Drest son of Girom.
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By 728 it appears that Drest, Nechtan, Alpín and Óengus mac Fergusa were engaged in a war for the Pictish throne. Drest was killed in battle against Óengus at Dromo Dergg Blathuug (possibly Drumderg, near Blairgowrie) in 729. Whether there is any relationship between this Drest and the Talorgan son of Drest, king of Atholl, who was killed by drowning in 739, can only be speculation. Drest, Talorgan and their variants are common Pictish names, too common for any argument on the basis of anthroponymy to be entirely convincing.
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It may be that Drest was the son of the Talorg son of Drostan, "brother of Nechtan" -- a half-brother or, perhaps a foster-brother -- who had been imprisoned in 713. Whatever his descent, Drest's rule appears to have been quickly challenged. In 725, Simul son of Drest was imprisoned, but by whom is unknown. In 726 Nechtan was imprisoned by Drest, following which Alpín, the Elpin of the king lists, deposed Drest.
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Alpín was king of the Picts from 726-728, together with Drest. The Pictish Chronicle king lists give Alpín and Drest a five-year joint rule. In 724, Nechtan mac Der-Ilei is reported in the Annals of Tigernach to have abdicated in favour of Drest, entering a monastery.Likewise in the Annals of Clonmacnoise.
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One Simul son of Drest, perhaps yet another sibling of Nechtan, was imprisoned by Drest in 725. In the same year, Brec of Fortriu died. He is assumed from the context to be the bishop of Fortriu, almost certainly appointed by Nechtan and the earliest known bishop in Pictland. In 726, Drest had Nechtan imprisoned.
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Drest son of Girom was a king of the Picts from 522 to 531. The Pictish Chronicle king lists associate him with Drest III. Various reigns, separately and jointly, are assigned to the two Drests, varying from one to fifteen years. After the joint rule, this Drest appears alone in the lists with a reign of five or four years.
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Alpín, who is associated with Drest in the Pictish Chronicle king lists, is not mentioned at this time. In 726, the Annals of Tigernach report that "Drest was cast from the kingdom of the Picts; and Alpín reigned in his stead."AT 726.4: Druist de reghno Pictorum iectus et Elphin pro eo [regnat]. In 728-729, a war in Pictland involving Alpín, Drest, Nechtan and Óengus is reported in various sources.
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Drest (Drest mac Domnal or Drest mac Dúngail; died 677) was king of the Picts from 663 until 672. He succeeded his brother Gartnait IV on the latter's death in 662.Annals of Ulster U663.3 The Pictish Chronicle king lists give him a reign of six or seven years. He is presumed to have been the leader of the failed Pictish Revolt against Ecgfrith of Northumbria in 671.
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Two sons of Nechtan are thought to have died in 710, and it is not known whether he had any surviving sons or daughters. The Annals of Tigernach note, in 724, that Nechtan entered a monastery, leaving the throne to Drest. Although the identification must be uncertain, it is assumed that this Drest is the son of Nechtan's half-brother. King Drest may not have had a secure hold on power.
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Rustily drest, with his spectacles in his hand, and their very case worn threadbare.
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Drest son of Uudrost or son of Uudrossig was a king of the Picts from 522 to 530. The Pictish Chronicle king lists associate him with Drest IV. Various reigns, separately and jointly, are assigned to the two Drests, varying from one to fifteen years.
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Drest or Drust, son of Erp, is a legendary king of the Picts from 412 to 452.
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KEXP-FM chose "Sharp Drest", a song off of the album, as their Song of the Day on June 23, 2008.
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Drest was king of the Picts from 724 until 726. He succeeded Nechtan mac Der- Ilei when the latter abdicated and entered a monastery in 724. Neither the Annals of Ulster, nor the Annals of Tigernach, name Drest's father. The earlier versions of the Pictish Chronicle king lists simply name "Drest and Elpin" as kings after Nechtan.
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On the river Drest there is a man-made waterway in the natural channel with an area of 5 hectares of surface water.
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Drest (Scottish Gaelic: Drust; Latin: Durst) was king of the Picts from before 845 to 848, a rival of Kenneth MacAlpin (Cináed mac Ailpín). According to the Pictish Chronicle, he was the son of Uurad (also spelled Vurad, Ferant, Ferat). Drest was killed at Scone in the event known in history as MacAlpin's Treason. He was the last king of the Picts.
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Drest is the first of three possible brothers, all called son of Girom, found in the king lists, the other being his successors Gartnait I and Cailtram.
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King Nechtan son of Der-Ilei abdicated to enter a monastery in 724 and was imprisoned by his successor Drest in 726. In 728 and 729, four kings competed for power in Pictland: Drest; Nechtan; Alpín, of whom little is known; and lastly Óengus, who was a partisan of Nechtan, and perhaps his acknowledged heir. Four battles large enough to be recorded in Ireland were fought in 728 and 729.
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Gartnait son of Girom was a king of the Picts from 531 to 537. The Pictish Chronicle king lists have him ruling for six or seven years between Drest IV and Cailtram. Cailtram is said to have been Gartnait's brother and three sons of Girom are successively listed as king, although Drest son of Girom is not explicitly stated to have been a brother of Gartnait and Cailtram.
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He is the third son of Girom listed as king, although Drest son of Girom is not explicitly stated to have been a brother of Cailtram and Gartnait.
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Lucy Yeomans is Creator and Founder of DREST, previously Editor-in-Chief of fashion website Net-a-Porter and editor of the fashion magazine Harper's Bazaar in the UK.
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Drest son of Munait was a king of the Picts from 549 to 550. The Pictish Chronicle king lists have him reign for one year between Talorc II and Galam Cennalath.
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Their king, Drest mac Donuel, was deposed and was replaced by Bridei mac Bili.Cummins (2009) p. 106; Fraser (2009) pp. 201–202 By 679, the Northumbrian hegemony was beginning to fall apart.
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266, note 2. His sons may have included Bridei, Ciniod, and Drest, who contested for power in Pictland with kin groups led by Bruide son of Fokel, and Kenneth MacAlpin (Cináed mac Ailpín).
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However, a late version, which includes Nechtan's second reign in 728-729, makes Drest's father one Talorgan. This version includes the otherwise unknown Carnach son of Ferach and Óengus son of Bridei, and is generally not such as would inspire great confidence. Since Nechtan abdicated in favour of Drest, some kinship between them seems probable. A number of Nechtan's sons are reported to have died, so that Drest, whether a nephew, a son-in-law or cousin may have been Nechtan's nearest male kin.
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Talorc son of Aniel was a king of the Picts from 452 to 456. The Pictish Chronicle king lists have him reign for four or two years between Drest son of Erp and his brother Nechtan.
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Talorc son of Muircholach was a king of the Picts from 538 to 549. The Pictish Chronicle king lists have him reign for eleven years between Cailtram and Drest V. There are many variants of his father's name, including Mordeleg, Murtholoic and Mordeleth.
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The sources of Kenneth MacAlpin becoming king of the Picts are few and suspect. Two such sources, the Prophecy of Berchán and De instructione principis, note that in 841 Mac Alpin attacked the remnants of the Pictish army and defeated them. Mac Alpin then invited the Pictish king, Drest, and the remaining Pictish nobles to Scone to settle the issue of Dál Riata's freedom or MacAlpin's claim to the Dál Riatan crown. Faced with a recently victorious MacAlpin in the south and a devastated army in the north, Drest, as well as all claimants to the Pictish throne from the seven royal houses attended this meeting at Scone.
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Druggett or drugget is "a coarse woollen fabric felted or woven, self-coloured or printed one side". Jonathan Swift refers to being "in druggets drest, of thirteen pence a yard".The Uffculme wills and inventories: 16th to 18th centuries, p.272 (Peter Wyatt, Uffculme Archive Group, 1997).
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The Chronicle claims that he exiled his brother Nechtan to Ireland. John of Fordun claims that Drest reigned for 45 years in the time of Palladius rather than Patrick, and conflates him with his brother Nechtan.Fordun, IV, x. The king lists record that he was followed by one Talorc son of Aniel.
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With such scant information about Drest, this detail is enticing: > In the ancient graveyard of St Vigeans in Forfarshire, within which there > exist many most interesting early Celtic monuments, there is to be found one > old stone which is possessed of this singularity: that on it there is > engraved the only inscription in the ordinary character of the Celtic > manuscript which is to be found in Scotland outside the bounds of Iona. That > inscription has been thus read by the late Sir James Simpson: “The stone of > Drost, son of Voret, of the race of Fergus.” There is considerable > probability that the Drost here commemorated is the Drost son of Ferat and > king of the Picts referred to above [i.e., Drest son of Uurad].
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Alpín appears to have been the initial opponent of Nechtan and Óengus. He was first defeated by Óengus at Monaidh Craeb, for which Monicrieffe near Perth has been suggested, where his son was killed. A second defeat led to Alpín's flight and Nechtan being restored as king. Drest was killed the following year, but Alpín's fate is not known.
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In the eastern part of the city Semenivka is the river Revna- is the left tributary of the River Snov (Снов). The river Drest (or Drost) runs through the area from north to south. Soils on the territory Semenivka are sod-podzolic and peat bog. The average soil fertility score on a 100-point scale has a composition of 37 points.
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Ciniod (Scottish Gaelic: Cináed) was king of the Picts, in modern Scotland, ruling circa 843. His name is given as Kineth in the king lists of the Pictish Chronicle. His family's claim may not have been uncontested, and it did not endure. According to the Pictish Chronicle, he was the son of Uurad (also Ferach, Ferech) and brother of king Drest.
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Talorgan, also known as Talorc (Scottish Gaelic: Talorc mac Óengusa), was a king of the Picts from 783 until 785. The Annals of Ulster report the death of Dub Tholargg (Black Talorcen) king of the Picts on this side of the Mounth in 782. He is presumed to have been the son of Óengus mac Fergusa. He was succeeded by his son Drest.
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The Works of the British Poets, vol.4, Edinburgh 1795, p.498, stanza XIX Two poets identified with the Cavalier cause also used the conceit. Katherine Philips placed it at the start of her poem "On Controversies in Religion" (1667), arguing that religion becomes the victim of misapplied texts ::And meets that Eagles destiny, whose breast ::Felt the same shaft which his own feathers drest.
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710, which report that two sons of "Nechtan mac Dargartó" were killed. The parentage of his mother, Der-Ilei, is not certainly known. As well as Nechtan, a number of other brothers, half-brothers or foster-brothers of Bruide can be tentatively identified in the Irish annals: Talorgan son of Drest, Congus son of Dargart and Cináed son of Der-Ilei.Annals of Ulster, s.a.
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Devereaux suggests that her impending fate lent weight to the eventual outcome of Hammett's bill, which was to abolish the burning of women for treason through the Treason Act 1790. Catherine Murphy, who at her execution in 1789 was "drest in a clean striped gown, a white ribbon, and a black ribbon round her cap", was the last woman in England to be burned.
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Drest Gurthinmoch was a king of the Picts from 480 to 510. The Pictish Chronicle king lists all give him a reign of 30 years between Nechtan and Galan. The meaning of the epithet Gurthinmoch is unknown, but the first part may be related to the Welsh gwrdd, meaning great, and perhaps moch in this case correlates with the same word in Welsh which means pig.
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Nechtan grandson of Uerb,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. was king of the Picts from 595 to around 616.
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Alpín was defeated twice by Óengus, after which Nechtan was restored to power. In 729 a battle between supporters of Óengus and Nechtan's enemies was fought at Monith Carno (traditionally Cairn o' Mount, near Fettercairn) where the supporters of Óengus were victorious. Nechtan was restored to the kingship, probably until his death in 732. On 12 August 729 Óengus defeated and killed Drest in battle at Druimm Derg Blathuug, a place which has not been identified.
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The Pictish Chronicle tells that Drest reigned for 100 years and triumphed in 100 battles.Variants say he lived 100 years and fought 100 battles. In the face of encroachment from Angles, Britons, and Scots, he established control over much of Northern Britain after the disruption following the withdrawal of the Romans. It also states that Saint Patrick went to Ireland in the nineteenth year of his reign, which would place it in the middle of the 5th century.
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Gartnait (Gartnait mac Domnaill or Gartnait mac Dúngail) (died 663) was king of the Picts from 657 until 663. He succeeded Talorgan mac Enfret on the latter's death in 657. The Pictish Chronicle king lists give him a reign of six or six and a half years, corresponding with the notice of his death in the Annals of Ulster and the Annals of Tigernach in 663. The king lists record that he was succeeded by his brother Drest VI.
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VI – "Land of hope and glory" – Finale (Contralto Solo and Tutti) Solo Land of hope and glory, Mother of the free, How shall we extol thee, who are born of thee? Truth and Right and Freedom, each a holy gem, Stars of solemn brightness, weave thy diadem. Chorus 'Tho thy way be darken'd, still in splendour drest, As the star that trembles o'er the liquid West. Thron'd amid the billows, thron'd inviolate, Thou hast reign'd victorious, thou hast smil'd at fate.
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This may have involved no more than removing the former king from one monastery, where he had friends and influence, to another where Drest's partisans were in control. In 728, Óengus son of Fergus defeated the shadowy Alpín. It seems likely that at this time, if not earlier, Nechtan had left the monastic life and was warring with Drest and Alpín. After Alpín was defeated a second time, the Annals of Tigernach say that Nechtan was restored to the kingship.
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Galam Cennalath (died 580) was a king of the Picts from 550 to 555. The Pictish Chronicle king lists have him reign for between two and four years, with one year being jointly with Bridei son of Maelchon according to some versions. Some variants place his reign between Gartnait and Drest son of Girom which may be a copyist's error, or alternatively he may have had two reigns. The death of "Cennalath, King of the Picts" is reported by the Annals of Ulster and the Annals of Tigernach for 580.
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A number of later figures, including the Talorgan son of Drest, king of Atholl, executed by drowning in 739, and the Talorgan son of Congus, defeated in 731 and likewise drowned in 734, and his unnamed brother, may be associated with Nechtan's family.The identifications broadly follow Clancy, "Nechtan son of Derile", and his "Philosopher-King" may contain further information. The absence of any Pictish genealogies makes all such identifications, however self-evident they may appear to be, uncertain and problematic. Bede claimed that relations between the Picts and Northumbria were peaceful in his time.
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Stephen records that, following the battle, the Picts were reduced to slavery and subject to the yoke of captivity for the next 14 years.: [T]he tribes were reduced to slavery and remained under the yoke of captivity until the time when the king was slain. The Irish annals of Ulster and Tigernach record of a 'Drost' being expelled from kingship in 671. U672.6; T672.5 It is generally presumed that this was the Pictish king, Drest, and that he was deposed and replaced by Bridei mac Bili as a direct result of the failure of the Pictish rebellion.
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"Fig. 1. wears the proper Indian Match-coat, which is made of Skins, drest with the Furr on, sowed together, and worn with the Furr inwards, having the edges also gashed for beauty sake. ... Fig 2. wears the Duffield Match-coat bought of the English" A matchcoat or match coat is an outer garment consisting of a length of coarse woolen cloth (stroud), usually about long, worn wrapped around the upper part of the body like a toga. Historically, they have been worn primarily by the Indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands, who may still wear them as regalia or for traditional events.
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Legend has it that the Gaels came secretly armed to Scone, where Drest and the Pictish nobles were killed. It is Giraldus Cambrensis in De Instructione Principis who recounts how a great banquet was held at Scone, and the Pictish king and his nobles were plied with drinks and became quite drunk. Once the Picts were drunk, the Gaels allegedly pulled bolts from the benches, trapping the Picts in concealed earthen hollows under the benches; additionally, the traps were set with sharp blades, such that the falling Picts impaled themselves. The Prophecy of Berchán tells that Mac Alpin plunged them in the pitted earth, sown with deadly blades.
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Uuen was a son of Onuist II [son of] Uurguist [Wrguist] (in Gaelic: Óengus II mac Fergusa, died 834) and succeeded his cousin Drest mac Caustantín as king in 836 or 837. The sole notice of Uuen in the Irish annals is the report of his death, together with his brother Bran and "Áed mac Boanta, and others almost innumerable" in a battle fought by the men of Fortriu against Vikings in 839.Reported in the Annals of Ulster, s.a. 839. This defeat appears to have ended the century-long domination of Pictland by the descendants of Onuist I [son of] Wrguist (in Gaelic: Óengus I mac Fergusa).
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In a rare change from a bald statement of names and years, the king lists provide a tradition linking Nechtan to the foundation of Abernethy: > "So Nectonius the Great, Wirp's son, the king of all the provinces of the > Picts, offered to Saint Brigid, to the day of judgement, Abernethy, with its > territories ... Now the cause of the offering was this. Nectonius, living in > a life of exile, when his brother Drest expelled him to Ireland, begged > Saint Brigid to beseech God for him. And she prayed for him, and said: "If > thou reach thy country, the Lord will have pity on thee. Thou shalt possess > in peace the kingdom of the Picts.
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It has been argued that Nechtan son of Derile should be identified with the Nechtan son of Dargart mentioned in the Annals of Ulster in 710. Dargart is taken to be the Dargart mac Finguine who died in 686, a member of the Cenél Comgaill kindred of Dál Riata. On this basis, and because Bede mentions that the Picts allowed for matrilineal succession in exceptional cases, it is thought that Der-Ilei was Nechtan's mother. Other brothers and half-brothers of Nechtan and Bridei would include Ciniod or Cináed, killed in 713, Talorgan son of Drest, a half-brother or foster-brother, held captive by Nechtan in the same year, and perhaps Congas son of Dar Gart who died in 712.
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Uuen, his father, his uncle and his cousin Domnall appear in the Duan Albanach, a praise poem from the reign of Máel Coluim (III) mac Donnchada listing Máel Coluim's predecessors as kings of Scots, of Alba and of Dál Riata from Fergus Mór and his brothers onwards. Their inclusion in this source and its like is thought to be due to their importance to the foundation traditions of Dunkeld and St Andrews.Broun, "Pictish Kings", p. 81. On Uuen's death the Pictish Chronicle king lists have him followed by the short reigns of Uurad (Ferat) and Uurad's sons Bridei, Cináed and Drest, by Bridei son of Fochel (Uuthoil) and by Cináed mac Ailpín (Ciniod [son of] Elphin), the eventual victor and founder of a new ruling clan.
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She also married a man named Drostam, the hypocoristic form of the common name Drest or Drust, with whom she had a son named Talorc or Talorcan; Talorcan, again, is a hypocoristic form. Drostan and Der-Ilei may have been the parents of Finguine, killed in 729 with his son Feroth at the battle of Monith Carno, or he may have been a son of Drostan by another marriage. It is not clear which of these marriages produced Der-Ilei's son Ciniod (died 713). Since Bruide, son of Dargart, was evidently an adult in 696; and Talorc, son of Drostan, does not appear in the record until 713, it is thought that Der-Ilei married Drostan following the death of Dargart.
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The English had 421 casualties: 112 dead (among them most of the captains of the blocking ships) and 309 wounded. Andrew Marvell wrote in his long ironic poem about the "Dutch War": :Six Captains bravely were shot, :And Mountagu, though drest like any bride, :Aboard the Admiral, was reacht, and died The "reached" was a sneer from Marvell and alluded to Teddeman's failure to place his flagship in the blocking line though it was by far the most powerful ship that he could use. In the biography of John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, the story is told that Rochester, Montagu and George Windham, three young noblemen, had had a strong premonition of their death. They made a pact that whoever should perish first would appear to the other in spirit form.
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An old mining tradition was for the horn of a tup (a male sheep, a ram) to be sent to the surface with every twentieth waggon of coal, as a way of counting the loads. A further tradition was that the last corve or corf (being a basket, tub, waggon or other container full) to be taken to the surface ion the last day of the year, also called "the tup" involved great ceremony. The young boys working underground would light candles and after the tup’s horn had been affixed to the top of the coalk, the load was "buss’d" or "drest" when the lads placed their candles into the coal. The whole lighted tup was then, on instruction from the onsetter of "send away" would be raised to the surface.
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The newspaper wrote that Lucy Yeomans is - "one of the most glamorous and best-connected women in magazine publishing, Yeomans has completed a long journey to reposition her title, Harper's Bazaar, taking it step by step from society handbook to a fashion bible for aspirational young women." In 2012, after 12 years as the editor of Harper's Bazaar, Yeomans became the Global Content Director of Net-a-Porter, launching firstly the company's weekly digital magazineThe Edit in 2013, followed by the acclaimed global fashion bi- monthly print magazine Porter in the spring of 2014, of which she held the position Editor-in-Chief and oversaw the magazine's highly successful Incredible Women franchise. In February 2019, Yeomans left Net-a-Porter to set up her own fashion and technology business. In October 2019, she announced via the Business of Fashion the launch of her innovative fashion platform called DREST.
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Inspection of New Arrivals, painted by Giulio Rosati (1858–1917). The legend of Circassian women in the western world was enhanced in 1734, when, in his Letters on the English, Voltaire alludes to the beauty of Circassian women: Their beauty is mentioned in Henry Fielding's Tom Jones (1749), in which Fielding remarked, "How contemptible would the brightest Circassian beauty, drest in all the jewels of the Indies, appear to my eyes!"Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, book 5, ch. 10 Similar erotic claims about Circassian women appear in Lord Byron's Don Juan (1818–1824), in which the tale of a slave auction is told: The legend of Circassian women was also repeated by legal theorist Gustav Hugo, who wrote that "Even beauty is more likely to be found in a Circassian slave girl than in a beggar girl", referring to the fact that even a slave has some security and safety, but a "free" beggar has none.
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Howarth, citing Allen The songs were finally published early in 1871 and included the twelve poems by Tennyson, eleven of which Sullivan had set to music, just the one illustration by Millais, and the following preface by Tennyson: :Four years ago Mr. Sullivan requested me to write a little song-cycle, German fashion, for him to exercise his art upon. He had been very successful in setting such old songs as "Orpheus with his Lute", and I drest up for him, partly in the old style, a puppet, whose almost only merit is, perhaps, that it can dance to Mr. Sullivan's instrument. I am sorry that my four year old puppet should have to dance at all in the dark shadow of these days [the siege of Paris in the Franco-Prussian War]; but the music is now completed, and I am bound by my promise. In 1900, a second edition omitted the illustration and Tennyson's preface.
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Alpín resolved to remove the king, and met him with his forces near a village of Angus, where the fight was maintained with great obstinacy, till the Pictish king was slain, whereby the Scots got the victory. However, a new king of "high descent and noble achievements" (possibly Drest) was elected king of the Picts, and turned the scale, and at Galloway defeated and took King Alpín, anno 834, and put him with many of his nobles to death. It is said that Alpín's head was fastened to a pole, and carried about the Pictish army, and at last set up for spectacle in Abernethy, their chief town, which was afterwards severely revenged by the Scots, who called the place where he was slain Bas Alpin. Alpín mac Skondre died on 20 July or in August 834 when he was either killed whilst fighting the Picts in Galloway or beheaded after the battle.
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