[149] The brief history of Kenneth, his parentage, reign, and mode of death, as given in one of the earliest Chronicles of the Kings of Scotland, quoted by Father Innes (p. 802), contains in its few lines a very condensed and yet powerful story of deep maternal affection and fierce female revenge. The whole entry is as follows:—"Kinath Mac-Malcolm 24, an. et 2. mens. Interfectus in Fotherkern a suis per perfidium Finellæ filiæ Cunechat comitis de Angus; cujus Finellæ filium unicum prædictus Kinath interfecit apud Dunsinoen." The clumsy additions of some later historians only spoil and mar the original simplicity and force of this "three-volume" historical romance.
[150] Tom. i. p. 219, of Goodall's edition.
[151] De Rebus Gestis Scotorum, chap. lxxxi. p. 200.
[152] Joannis Forduni Scotichronicon, tom. i. p. 219.
[153] Chronicon de Mailros, p. 226 (Bannatyne Club edition).
[154] Wyntown's Orygynale Cronykil of Scotland, vol. i. p. 183.
[155] In the Scotichronicon instead of "In Tegalere," the third of these lines commences "Inregale regens," etc.; and it is noted that in the "Liber Dumblain" the line begins "Indegale," etc.
[156] Buchanan, in his Rerum Scoticorum Historia, gives the locality as "ad Almonis amnis ostium." (Lib. vi. c. 81.)
[157] Scotorum Historiæ, p. 235 of Paris edition of 1574. Bellenden and Stewart, in their translations of Boece's History both place the fight at "Crawmond."
[158] This document, entitled Nomina Regum Scottorum et Pictorum and published by Father Innes in his Critical Essay, p. 797, etc., is described by that esteemed and cautious author as a document the very fact of the registration of which among the records and charters of the ancient church of St. Andrews "is a full proof of its being held authentick at the time it was written, that is about A.D. 1251." (P. 607.)