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cxlii PEEEACE. but the " Pictish Chronicle " adds that some attri- bute this expedition to Constantin, who resumed his kingdom for the purpose, and this will account for the reign of the latter being prolonged by some to forty-five and forty-seven years, and for the " Albanic Duan" assigning only four years to Mal- colm. The "Pictish Chronicle" says he was slain by the Viri na Moerne at Fodresach. The Latin lists, as usual, remove the scene of his death to Moray, at a place they call Ulurn ; but St. Berchan, who calls him the Bodhdhearg, or dangerous red one, and gives him a reign of nine years, confirms the " Pictish Chronicle," as he places his death on the brink of Dun/other, and thus estabhshes its iden- tification with Dunnottar, which is close to Fetter- esso. The " Irish Annals" place his death in 954. induif, son of He was succccdcd by Indulf, son of Constantin, to whom the " Pictish Chronicle" gives a reign of eight years, and the Latin lists of nine. In his reign the " oppidum Edin," or Dunedin, that is Edinburgh, was yielded to the Scots by the Angles, and along with it probably the country between Stirling and Edin- burgh. St. Berchan, who calls him the lonsaight- heuck, or aggressor, and gives him a reign of nine and a half years, says that he lost no part of his territories, but added to his kingdom by an addi- tion from a foreign land. The Latin lists say that he was slain by the Norwegians at Inverculan, but St. Berchan expressly states that he died "in the " house of the same pure apostle where his father