172 THE LIBERALTS STONE 



This monument, one of the earliest (if not the earliest) 

 Christian monuments in Scotland, was erected by Prince 

 Nudus to the memory of his two sons who here fell in 

 battle. But the question at once suggests itself — Who was 

 "Nudus the Generous?" The answer may be given in a 

 word. In the "Four Ancient Books of Wales" we read of 

 one Dungual Hen, who had a grandson called Nud, also 

 called Hael or Liberal. It would, therefore, seem that the 

 two sons of Liberalis whom the stone commemorates were 

 the sons of Hael, the King of the Strathclyde Britons. 



