[444]. Hic mira caliditate duxit Scotos de Argadia in terra Pictorum.—Chron. Picts and Scots, p. 174.
[445]. ‘Kinadius igitur filius Alpini primus Scottorum rexit feliciter istam annis xvi. Pictaviam.’ Pictavia has not been before mentioned. ‘Pictavia autem a Pictis est nominatur; quos, ut diximus, Cinadius delevit.’
[446]. Chron. Picts and Scots, p. 299. Higden, Polychronicon, ed. ii. 148. That this statement in both was taken from the Pictish Chronicle appears from its concluding thus: ‘Kynadius filius Alpini perfidens Pictaviam invasit, Pictos delevit et Saxones sexies expugnavit et terram dudum Anglicis subactam quæ est a mari Scotiæ usque ad Mailros quæ est in ripa Twedæ fluminis suo dominio subjugavit.’ The sympathy of the compilers of this account too is with the Picts.
[447]. Chron. Picts and Scots, pp. 163 and 202.
[448]. This expression, ‘Pictos delevit,’ which terminates the omitted account, obviously corresponds with the expression in the Pictish Chronicle, ‘quos, ut diximus, Cinadius delevit.’ It is evidently to the slaughter of the Pictish nobles by this stratagem that the expression refers.
[449]. Chron. Picts and Scots, p. 83. The translation is slightly altered.
[450]. It is not impossible that this immigration, whether secular or ecclesiastic, may have been aided by the king of Ireland, and that the following notices refer to it:—
819 Mors Aedha mac Neill juxta vadum duorum mirabilium (Athdaferta) in Campo Conaille.—An. Ult.
Mors Aeda meic Neill Righ Temrach for sluagud (king of Tara while carrying on war) in Alban.—Inisf.
Aodh Oirdnighe mac Neill Frasaigh na Righ atteamhair da bliaghain is fiche gur eag ag (king of Tara twenty-two years till he died at) Athdaferta a Tirconaill. Acht abaraiddrong do na Seanchaibh gur accaith Droma do torcraidhe (but other senachies say that was in the battle of Droma that he was slain).—Inisf. The battle of Droma seems connected with the statement that he carried on war in Alban when he was slain. This would give 819 as the date of this invasion.