The Cruithneans or Picts are said to have fled from the oppression of their king in Thrace, and to have passed into Gaul.

There they founded the city of Poictiers.

From thence they were again driven by an act of tyranny, and they proceeded first to Britain, and then to Ireland.

Crimhthann Sciath-bel, one of King Bremen's leaders, was at Wexford when the new colony landed.

He was occupied in extirpating a tribe of Britons who had settled in Fotharta,[63] and were unpleasantly distinguished for fighting with poisoned weapons.