Page:Chronicles of the Picts, chronicles of the Scots, and other early memorials of Scottish history.djvu/148

cxl PEEFACE. and instead of a Pictish kingdom, ruled by a Scottish dynasty, it had become to all intents and purposes a monarchy, in which the supre- macy of the Scots was fully established. In each successive reign the power of the Scots Constantm, son ijecame Still further extended. Constantin, the suc- of Aed. ' cessor of Donald, was the son of Aed, son of Kenneth Mac Alpin. The " Pictish Chronicle " gives him a reign of forty years, in which it is supported by some of the Latin lists, while others limit it to thirty and thirty-five years. The chronology of his reign is distinct enough. The " Pictish Chronicle " states that in Ms third year the Normanni laid waste Dunkeld and all Albania, and in the following year were slain in Strathearn, and that in his eighteenth year the battle of Tinmore was fought between Constantin and Regnall, in which the Scots were victorious ; and the " Irish Annals " have the slaugh- ter of Ivor OTvor by the men of Fortren in 904, and in 918 a great battle between Regnall, king of the DugaUs, and the men of Alban. In the latter part of his reign he was brought into contact with the Saxons, and, according to the " Saxon Chronicle," placed himself in 924 under the protection of Ed- ward, the elder king of England. In 926 he entered into a treaty Tsath Athelstane, Edward's successor, who, in 934, on the plea that the treaty had been broken, invaded Scotland both by sea and land, sent his fleet as far as Caithness, and penetrated with his land army as far as Dunfceder and Wertermore. The