[79] See Innes’s Essay, vol. i.
[80] This is the date commonly given, although Mr. E. W. Robertson makes it 502 on the authority of Tighernach, while O’Donovan (Annals of the Four Masters, vol. i. p. 160) makes it 506.
[81] Vol. i. p. 212.
[82] Early Kings, vol. i. p. 5.
[83] Early Kings, vol. ii. p. 305.
[84] At this time, and up at least to the 11th century, present Scotland was known as Albania, Alban, or Alba, the term Scotland or Scotia being generally applied to Ireland, unless where there is some qualifying term, as Nova. Burton thinks it not safe to consider that the word Scot must mean a native of present Scotland, when the period dealt with is earlier than the middle of the 12th century.
[85] Skene in his Chronicles of the Picts and Scots, p. cx., makes the date to be about 495 or 498.
[86] Skene’s Chronicles of the Picts and Scots, p. cxiii.
[87] More recently the invaluable labours of E. W. Robertson, Burton, Forbes-Leslie, Joseph Robertson, Grub, Skene, and Maclauchlan, have been the means of putting the history of this period on its proper footing.
[88] Vol. i. ch. vi.