[410]. 763 Bruidhi Ri Fortchernn (Fortren, An. Ult.) mortuus est.—Tigh.
[411]. Cujus tertio anno inchoante, gravissimum juxta Eldunum secus Melros gestum est bellum octavo idus Augusti, in quo cecidit Oswine post triduum, prima feria. The place meant is the Eildon Hill near Melrose. The Saxon Chronicle calls the place Edwine’s Cliffe.
[412]. 768 Bellum i Fortrinn ittir Aedh et Cinaedh.—An. Ult. The Annals of the Four Masters record this as a battle between Aedh and Cinaedh, son of Flann, Leinster men, where Aedh was slain, but there was no place called Fortrenn in Leinster. It is probably a mere speculative identity by the compilers.
[413]. The word used by Flann, ‘Airgnech’ in one ms. and ‘Airectech’ in another, both formed from the verb Airce, to plunder or rob. The Duan has ‘Aodh na Ardfhlaith.’
[414]. 784 Adventus reliquiarum filiorum Eirc ad civitatem Tailten.—An. Ult. ‘The chiefs of Ulster before Conchobar were buried at Tailte, namely, Ollamh Fotla and seven of his sons and grandsons and others of the chiefs of Ulster.’—Tract on Cemeteries in Lebor na Huidri, p. 38.
[415]. Sim. Dun. 775 Rex Pictorum Cynoth ex voragine hujus cœnulentæ vitæ eripitur.
775 Mors Cinadhon regis Pictorum.—An. Ult.
[416]. Elpin rex Saxonum moritur.—An. Ult.
[417]. 782 Dubhtolargg rex Pictorum citra Monoth periit.—An. Ult.
[418]. 789 Bellum inter Pictos ubi Conall mac Taidg victus est et evasit et Constantin victor fuit. 790 Vel hic bellum Conall et Constantin secundum alios libros.—An. Ult.