[541]. Chron. Picts and Scots, p. 96.—It is curious that on this and the occasion when the men of Moerne slay his father, St. Berchan uses the expression, ‘the Gael will shout around his head.’
[542]. A.D. 997 Cath etir Albancho itorchair Constantin mac Cuilindain Ri Alban et alii multi.
[543]. Interfectus a Kynnet filio Malcolmi in Rathinveramon.—Chron. Picts and Scots, pp. 175, 289.
[544]. Fordun’s Chronicle, vol. ii. p. 168.
[545]. A.D. 997 Maelcolaim mac Domnall Ri Breatan Tuaiscert moritur.—Tigh.
[546]. A.D. 1005 Cath etir firu Alban imonetir itorcair Ri Alban .i. Cinaed mac Duib.—An. Ult.
[547]. Interfectus a filio Kinet in Moeghavard.—Chron. Picts and Scots, pp. 175, 289. The later Chronicles term this king Girus or Grig, son of Kenneth, son of Dubh. The Albanic Duan calls him simply Macdhuibh, but Flann Mainistrech has Cinaet mac Duib, the oldest authority thus confirming the Annals of Ulster.
CHAPTER VIII.
THE KINGDOM OF SCOTIA.
A.D. 1005-1034.
Malcolm, son of Kenneth, king of Scotia.
The line of the kings of Scottish descent had now been for a century and a half in possession of the Pictish throne. During the first half-century they had borne the title of kings of the Picts; but during the remainder of this period their title had passed over into that of kings of Alban, and what formerly had been known as Cruithintuath and Pictavia, or the territory of the Picts, and, from its capital, the kingdom of Scone, had now become Albania or the kingdom of Alban, extending from the Firth of Forth to the river Spey, over which these kings of Alban ruled, while a certain supremacy was acknowledged beyond it. The mixed population of Picts and Scots had now become to a great extent amalgamated, and under the influence of the dominant race of the Scots were identified with them in name.