[434]. Invasit sexies Saxoniam et concremavit Dunbarre atque Mailros usurpata. Britanni autem concremaverunt Dubblain atque Danari vastaverunt Pictaviam ad Cluanan et Duncalden.—Ib. p. 8. In the Lodbrokar-quida, or death-song of Ragnar Lodbrok, it is said, in v. 12, ‘At Bartha-firdi down from our points distilled the dew (of death).’ Barthafirdi may be the Firth of Tay, and the allusion may be to the invasion of Danes under Ragnar.
[435]. Nec præterea plures alicubi reperio, quod cito defecerit episcopatus, quia extrema, ut dixi, Anglorum ora est, et Scottorum vel Pictorum depopulationi opportuna.—Gest. Pont. Lib. iii. § 115. The last mention of Beadulf is in 795.
[436]. Collectanea de Rebus Albanicis, p. 66.
[437]. Collectanea, p. 67. 856 Cocadh mor ettir Gennti et Maelsechnall con Gallgaidhel leis.—An. Ult. 857 Roiniud ren Imar et ren Amlaiph for Caittil Find con Gallgaidhel hi tiribh Mumhan.—An. Ult.
[438]. Chron. Picts and Scots, pp. 403, 404.
[439]. Ib. p. 84.
[440]. Cinaet mac Ailpin. Ise cet righ rogab righe Scoinde do Gaidelaib.—Flann. 856 Cemoyth rex Pictorum moritur.—An. Cam. 858 Cinaeth mac Ailpin rex Pictorum mortuus est.—An. Ult. 858 Cionaodh mac Ailpin rex Pictorum moritur.—Fragm. An.
[441]. For the first daughter the authority is the Pictish Chronicle. Pinkerton reads this name Ku, mistaking K for R, and overlooking the stroke over the u which marks an n. He has been followed by all subsequent writers. The second appears from the Fragments of Irish Annals, p. 172. The Ulster Annals have at 917 Mailmaire inghen Cinaeda mac Alpin mor.
[442]. Deus enim eos pro merito suæ malitiæ alienos ac otiosos hereditate dignatus est facere, quia illi non solum Domini missam ac preceptum spreverunt, sed et in jure æquitatis aliis æqui parari noluerunt.—Chron. Picts and Scots, p. 8.
[443]. The Annals of Ulster have at 865 Tuathal mac Artguso primus episcopus Fortrenn et abbas Duincaillenn dormivit.—Ib. p. 391.