[122]. Chron. Picts and Scots, p. 6.
[123]. Ibid. p. 410.
[124]. Liber Hymnorum, i. pp. 97, 105.
[125]. Ib. p. 117.
[126]. ‘Near to the parish church of Anwoth, in Galloway, is a low undulating range of hills, called the Boreland Hills. One of these goes by the name of Trusty’s Hill, and round its top may be traced the remains of a vitrified wall.’—Stuart’s Sculptured Stones, vol. i. p. 31. Anwoth is on the east side of Wigtown Bay; Whithern in the peninsula on the west side.
[127]. Mailcon is the genitive form of Mailcu. It is the same name as Milchu, the Dalaradian king who held St. Patrick in slavery.
[128]. Venit autem Brittaniam Columba, regnante Pictis Bridio filio Meilochon, rege potentissimo, nono anno regni ejus, gentemque illam verbo et exemplo ad fidem Christi convertit.—Hist. Ec. B. iii. c. iv.
[129]. Adamnan, Vit. Columbæ, ed. 1874, p. 174.
[130]. 580 Cendaeladh rex Pictorum mortuus est.—Chron. Picts and Scots, p. 67.
[131]. The old name of the parish of New Abbey, in Kirkcudbright, was Loch Kindeloch, as appears from the Chartulary of Kelso, No. 253. The loch seems to have taken its name from Cendaeladh.