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 PEEFACE. cxlv He was succeeded by a king who is called by cinead, i some of the Latin lists, and by Flann Mainistreach, ° and the " Irish Annals," Cinaed, son of Duf ; but by others of the Latin lists, Gi'ig, son of Kinet, son of Dubh, to whom a reign of eight years is given here ; by some lists Kinet, son of Duf, is made to succeed his father before Culen, and to have reigned one year and a half The "Albanic Duan" calls him simply Macduih, and gives him a reign of four years. St. Berchan calls him the Bonn, or " brown from strong " Duncath," and gives him a reign of eight years and a half. He is also apparently meant by the Ken- neth, son of Malcolm, who slew Constantin. It is obvious that there is some confusion here which the loss of the " Pictish Chronicle" leaves no means of clearing up ; but the probability is that the king who now reigned was Kenneth, son of Dubh, also called son of Malcolm, and that he had a son Grig, who may have reigned along with him. He is said by the Latin lists to have been slain by Malcolm, son of Kenneth, in Moighenard, now Monzievaird. St. Berchan says he was killed at his " stone of blood " between two glens" on the banks of the Earn. The " Irish Annals" record in 1005 a battle among the men of Alban, in which the king of Alban, i.e., Kenneth, son of Dubh, was slain. For the reign of Malcolm, son of Kenneth, and his successors to Malcolm Canmore, we have the almost cotemporary authority of Marianus Scotus ; and the confusion which exists in the short interval be-