By him shall be attacked the powerful house,
Ah! my heart! on the banks of the Earn,
Red shall be the colour of the house before him.
He shall fall by the men of Fortrenn.
[476]. Ac in ix. ejus anno, in ipso die Cirici, eclipsis solis facta est. Eochodius cum alumpno suo expulsus est nunc de regno.—Pict. Chron.
[477]. Hic subjugavit sibi totam Berniciam et fere Angliam.—Chron. Picts and Scots, p. 288. This is the reading of what is evidently a better copy of the Chronicle of St. Andrews than that in the register, which reads ‘Hiberniam totam et fere Angliam,’ and has been followed by the later chronicles. There is no trace of any conquest of Ireland, and Hibernia seems to have been substituted for Bernicia.
[478]. Gens Scottorum, innumerabili exercitu coadunato, inter cætera suæ crudelitatis facinora, Lindisfarnense monasterium sæviens et rapiens invasit: contra quos dum rex Guthredus, per Sanctum Cuthbertum confortatus, pugnaturus staret, subito terra dehiscens hostes vivos omnes absorbuit.—Sim. Dun. Hist. Ec. c. 28.
[479]. Chron. Picts and Scots, p. 174, and Preface to the Statuta Ecclesiæ Scoticanæ, by Dr. Joseph Robertson, vol. i. p. xiv.—‘Et hic primus dedit libertatem Ecclesiæ Scoticanæ quæ sub servitute erat ad illud usque tempus ex constitutione et more Pictorum.’
[480]. William the Lion gives to the Priory of St. Andrews ‘Ecclesiam Sancti Cirici de Eglesgirg’ (Chartulary of St. Andrews, p. 218); and at p. 348 we find ‘Ecclesia Sancti Cyrici martyris de Eglisgirg.’