[532]. Nials Saga. Coll. de Rebus Alb. p. 337. The fiord in which the sons of Nial fought with the sons of Moldan from Duncan’s Bay was probably Loch Broom.
[533]. See Wars of the Gaedhil with the Gaill, pp. 271, 272.
[534]. It is necessary, in steering one’s way through the numerous invasions of the Northmen, to distinguish clearly between Norwegians and Danes. This is evidently done in the Pictish Chronicle, the Norwegians being called Normanni, and the Danes, Danari.
[535]. 986 The Danes come to Airer Dalriatai with three ships, and 140 of them were hung, and the rest dispersed. I Columcille plundered by the Danes on the eve of the Nativity, and the abbot and fifteen of the clergy of the church were slain.—An. Ult.
987 Cath Manann ria mac Aralt et rias na Danaraibh, ubi mille occisi sunt. Great slaughter of the Danes who ravaged I, of whom 360 were slain.—An. Ult.
[536]. Nials Saga in Collectanea de Rebus Albanicis. Dasent’s Saga of Burnt Njal.
[537]. Gilli is apparently the prefix Gille, which enters into so many Gaelic names. King Harald Gilli was so called because, being born in Ireland, he originally bore the name of Gillechrist.
[538]. A.D. 989 Gofraigh mac Arailt, Ri Insi-Gall domarbh in Dalriatai.—An. Ult.
[539]. A.D. 995 Cinaeth mac Malcolaim Ri Alban a suis occisus est. Tigh. (per dolum—An. Ult.)
[540]. Interfectus est a suis hominibus in Fotherkern per perfidiam Finvelæ filiæ Cunchar comitis de Engus, cujus Finvelæ unicum filium predictus Kyneth interfecit apud Dunsinoen.—Chron. Picts and Scots, pp. 175, 289.