[580]. St. Berchan calls Duncan Ilgalrach, and also as Ri Galrach. Galrach means diseased, and may have given rise to the name Kali.
[581]. The Chronicle of Huntingdon says, ‘Comes Northumbriæ Siwardus Scotiam ingressus Maket regem nepotem dicti Malcolmi cum xv. annis regnaret, a regno fugavit.’[fugavit.’]
[582]. Caradoc of Llancarvan calls the two kings Maelbeathe and Jehmarc, kings of Orkney and Ewyst. See Note [569], p. 397.
[583]. Collect. de Rebus Albanicis, pp. 346, 347.
[584]. Machbet filius Finlach contulit per suffragiis orationum et Gruoch filia Bodhe rex et regina Scotorum, Kyrkness Deo omnipotenti et Keledeis prefatæ insulæ Lochlevine cum suis finibus et terminis.
Cum omni libertate collata fuit villa de Kyrkenes Deo omnipotenti et Keledeis, aliique omni munere et onere et exaccione regis et filii regis, vicecomitis et alicujus et sine refectione pontis et sine exercitu et venatione, sed pietatis intuitu et orationum suffragiis fuit Deo omnipotenti collata.
Cum summa veneratione et devotione Makbeth rex contulit Deo et Sancto Servano de Lochlevyn et heremitis ibidem Deo servientibus Bolgyne filii Torfyny cum omni libertate et sine onere exercitus regis et filii ejus, vel vicecomitis, et sine exactione alicujus, sed caritatis intuitu et orationum suffragiis.—Chr. of St. Andrews, p. 114, 12.
Gruoch being united with him in the first of these grants rather points to the family of Bodhe being peculiarly connected with Fife.
[585]. A.D. 1045 Cath etir Albancho araenrian cur marbadh andsin Crinan Ab. Duincalland ocus sochaighe maille fris .i. nae xx laech.
[586]. A.D. 1050 Rex Scottiæ Macbethad Romæ argentum pauperibus seminando distribuit.—According to the Orkneyinga Saga, Thorfinn, earl of Orkney, went to Rome in the same year, ‘and saw the Pope, from whom he obtained absolution for all his sins.’—Mr. Anderson’s edition, p. 43. This is either another instance of the confusion between Thorfinn and Macbeth, or they went together for the same purpose.