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CXXXIV PREFACE. year 858. He is succeeded by his brotlier Donald Mac Alpin, who reigned, according to all the lists, four years. According to the " Pictish Chronicle," he died at his palace of Cinn Belachoir, according to the " Cronicon Elegiacum," at Scone, and to the Latin lists, at Rathinveramon. The two latter are separated from each other by the Tay. St. Berchan terms him the son of the Gaillsigh, gives him a reign of three years and three months, and places his death at Loch Adliblia, or the loch of the palace. His death is recorded by the " Irish Annals " in 862. He was succeeded by Constantino, the son of Kenneth, and he by Aedh, his brother. By the " Pictish Chronicle," Constantine is said to have reigned sixteen years ; in his second and third years, Amlaib,^ with his Gentiles, laid waste Pictavia, and is slain by him ; in his fourteenth year, a battle is fought between the Danes and the Scots at Dollar, and a short time after, the Scots are slain at Ach- cochlum. His successor Aed reigned one year, and is slain at Nrurin. The " Irish Annals " record the invasion of Amlaiph in 8 6 6 ; the slaughter of Artga, king of the Strathclyde Britons, by the advice of Constantine, in 872 ; a conflict between the Dugalls and the Picts in 875 ; and the death of Constantine in 876, and that of Aedh by his own people in 878. By the Latin lists, Constantine is said to have been ■^ According to the " Annals " of MacFirbis," iirinted by the Irish Archseological Society (p. 173), the wife of Amlaib was a (laughter of Kenneth Mac Alpin, so that his invasion may have been connected with claims on the succession.