Chapter VII: The Kingdom of Alban (3)

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._

Footnote 536:

Nials Saga in _Collectanea de Rebus Albanicis_. Dasent’s Saga of Burnt
Njal.

Footnote 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.

Footnote 538:

A.D. 989 Gofraigh mac Arailt, Ri Insi-Gall domarbh in Dalriatai.—_An.
Ult._

Footnote 539:

A.D. 995 Cinaeth mac Malcolaim Ri Alban a suis occisus est. _Tigh._
(per dolum—_An. Ult._)

Footnote 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.

Footnote 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.’

Footnote 542:

A.D. 997 Cath etir Albancho itorchair Constantin mac Cuilindain Ri
Alban et alii multi.

Footnote 543:

Interfectus a Kynnet filio Malcolmi in Rathinveramon.—_Chron. Picts
and Scots_, pp. 175, 289.

Footnote 544:

Fordun’s _Chronicle_, vol. ii. p. 168.

Footnote 545:

A.D. 997 Maelcolaim mac Domnall Ri Breatan Tuaiscert moritur.—_Tigh._

Footnote 546:

A.D. 1005 Cath etir firu Alban imonetir itorcair Ri Alban .i. Cinaed
mac Duib.—_An. Ult._

Footnote 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.