[518]. Bellum inter Nigerum et Caniculum super Dorsum Crup, in quo Niger habuit victoriam, ubi cecidit Duchad abbas Duncalden et Dubdon satrapas Athochlach.—Pict. Chron. A.D. 965 Battle between the men of Alban among themselves, ‘ubi multi occisi sunt’ about Duncan, abbot of Dunkeld.—An. Ult. Cuilean, a whelp, from Cu, a dog, here translated Caniculus.
[519]. Expulsus est Niger de regno et tanist Caniculus brevi tempore.
A.D. 967 Dub mac Maelcolaim, Ri Alban, slain by the people of Alban themselves.—An. Ult.
[520]. Culen et frater ejus Eochodius occisi sunt a Britonibus.—Pict. Chron.
A.D. 971 Culen mac Illuilb Ri Alban slain by the Britons in battle.—An. Ult.
[521]. Statim predavit Britanniam ex parte. Pedestres Cinadi occisi sunt maxima cede in Moin na Cornar.—Pict. Chron. Moin is a moss in Gaelic, na the genitive of the definite article, and Cornar or Cornac the river called by Bede the Curnig, which falls into the Firth of Forth at Abercorn.
[522]. A.D. 966. And in the same year Oslac obtained an aldordom.—Sax. Chron. Deinde sub Eadgaro rege Oslac præficitur Comes Eboraco et locis ei pertinentibus; et Eadulf, cognomento Yvelchild, a Teisa usque Myrcforth præponitur Northymbris.—Libellus de adventu, Sax. Ch. p. 212.
This word Myrcforth is in one MS. Myreforth, which reading has been usually adopted, but the former is the correct form of the name. The Firth of Forth is called in the Norse Sagas Myrkvafiord or the mirk or dark firth, and Myrcford is the Saxon equivalent.
[523]. Scotti prædaverunt Saxoniam ad Stanmoir et ad Clivam et ad Stang na Deram. Cinadius autem vallavit ripas vadorum Forthen. Post annum perrexit Cinadius et prædavit Saxoniam et traduxit filium regis Saxonum.—Pict. Chron. It was not Cumberland, but Saxonia, Kenneth laid waste. Stanmore is at the head of the Tees, and separates Cumbria from Northumbria. Cliva seems Cleveland, on the south of the Tees farther east. Deram seems meant for Deira.
[524]. Hic est qui tribuit magnam civitatem Brechne Domino. The ‘Hic est’ is a Gaelic idiom for Is e; and Brechne is in Gaelic the genitive of Brechin.