DeDanaan

Filed by Aine MacDermot

Eremon and Eber : Eremon was the seventh son of Milesius. Eber was his eldest brother. Joint rule in 3500. Eremon killed Eber and his wife in 3500 (1700 B.C.?) in a quarrel over territory, and ruled alone into 3516. During Eremon’s reign alone, a “. . . colony called by the Irish Cruithneaigh, in English ‘Cruthneans’ or Picts, arrived in Ireland and requested Eremon to assign them a part of the country to settle in, which he refused; but, giving them as wives the widows of the Tuatha de Danaans, slain in battle, he sent them with a strong party of his own forces to conquer the country then called ‘Alba,’ but now Scotland; conditionally, that they and their posterity should be tributary, to the Monarchs of Ireland.”