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 clxxxii PEEFACE. filius Forgso, who received the relics of St. Andrew, and sixty-nine years prior he likewise interpolates Thalarger Amfrud, obviously the same kings. IX. Indications From the prccedins; sketch it will be seen that AND FRAGMENTS ° OF HISTORY OF thc old Chronicles and Memorials which form the EIGHTH AND,. r 1 • 11 • f 11 • NINTH CEN- subject 01 this collection lall into two groups, first, those written in, and prior to, the eleventh century, which present the traditions of the country un- tainted by the bias produced by the subsequent controversy regarding the civil and ecclesiastical independence of Scotland ; and secondly, -those which have been changed and distorted by the pressure of the exigencies of that controversy, and the oldest of which is dated in 1165. According to the view which we have taken of the import of the older chronicles, written in, and prior to, the eleventh century, the kingdom of the Picts, comprising the territories reaching the Firth of Forth to Caithness, and from the Eastern Sea to the great wind and water-sheer dividing the eastern from the western watersheds, and known by the name of Drumalban, extended from the fifth cen- tury till the middle of the ninth centuiy, when it was superseded by the later kingdom of the Scots, founded by Kenneth Mac Alpin. The smaller Scot- tish kingdom of Dalriada, restricted within the limits of the modern county of Argyle, existed parallel to the great Pictish monarchy, from the