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PREFACE. cxlvii at this time also divided itself into two branches, descended from the two brothers, Dubh and Kenneth, sons of Malcolm. In Kenneth, son of Dubh, and his son Grig, this line of kings came to an end ; but the " Irish Annals" record a Boede, son of Kenneth, whose grandson was slain in the year 1033 ; and it appears from the chartulary of St. Andrews that Gruoch filia Boede was wife of Macbeth, son of Finnloech, and reigned along with him, while Lulach, his successor, is termed in one of the Latin lists, " nepos filii Boede ; " and thus the rights of that family may have passed to her husband and to Lulach, and given rise to their claims upon the throne. Malcolm, the son of Kenneth, is termed by Maicoim, son the chronicles, " Rex Victoriosissimus," and, by St. Berchan, the Forranach, or destroyer. He gives him a reign of thirty-five years, and says that " ten hosts were defeated before him." He reia;ned from 1004 to 1034, and to him the province of Lothian, or that part of Bernicia which extended from the Tweed to the Forth, was ceded. The kings of the race of Kenneth were now in pos- session of the four kingdoms of the Picts, the Scots, the Strathclyde Britons, and the Angles, north of the Tweed, and with Malcolm another change takes place in the designation of the king and of the territory he ruled over. The king is now termed liings of ScoUa. Rex Scotice, and the latter loses the name of Alba- nia and assumes that of Scotia, but the name of