Scotia fertilis Sanctorum virorum insula.—_Surius_, tom. iii. p. 114. VITA S. KILIANI. Scotia quae et Hibernia dicitur, insula est maris oceani, foecunda quidem glebis, sed viris Sanctissimis clarior.—_Surius_, tom. iii. p. 132. TENTH CENTURY. HEGESIPPUS. _De excidio Hierosolymitano._ Quid attexam Britannias interfuso mari toto orbe divisas, a Romanis in orbem terrarum redactas? Tremuit hos Scotia, quae terris nihil debet. SECUNDA VITA S. PATRICII, _ap._ Colgan. Causa haec erat primae peregrinationis atque adventus ejus in Scotiam.—_Tr. Th._ p. 12. QUINTA VITA S. PATRICII, _ap._ Colgan. Scotiam atque Britanniam, Angliam et Normanniam caeterasque gentes insulanorum baptizabis.—_Tr. Th._ p. 51. NOTKERUS BALBULUS, _in Martyrologio_. v. Id. Junias. In Scotia insula Hibernia depositio S. Columbae, cognomento apud suos Columbkilli. To which it may be added that King Alfred, in his translation of Orosius, translates the passage, ‘Hibernia, quae a gentibus Scotorum colitur,’ by ‘Ighernia, which we call Scotland.’ For the second proposition we have the following:— In the Pictish Chronicle the name of Scotia is still applied to Ireland. ‘Scotti in quarta etate Scociam sive Hiberniam obtinuerunt,’ and the only names used for Scotland are Albania and Pictavia. ‘xxx. Brude regnaverunt Hiberniam et Albaniam.’ ‘Danari vastaverunt Pictaviam ad Cluanan et Duncalden.’ ‘Normanni predaverunt Duncalden, omnemque Albaniam.’—_Chron. Picts and Scots_, pp. 3, 5, 8, 9. In the following century we have ‘Regnum Scotorum fuit, inter cetera regna Terrarum, quondam nobile, forte, potens.... Ex Albanacto, trinepote potentis Enee, Dicitur Albania: littera prisca probat. A Scota, nata Pharaonis regis Egypti, Ut veteres tradunt, Scotia nomen habet.’ _Chron. Picts and Scots_, p. 117. Illa regio, quae nunc corrupte vocatur Scotia, antiquitus appellabatur Albania.... Nunc vero corrupte vocatur Scotia.—_Ib._ p. 135. Albania est, quae modo Scotia vocatur.—_Ib._ p. 153. Albania tota, quae modo Scotia vocatur.—_Ib._ p. 154. Monarchia totius Albaniae quae nunc Scotia dicitur.—_Chron. Picts and Scots_, p. 209. That part of the Saxon Chronicle which precedes the death of King Alfred in 901, and according to the best authorities was compiled in his reign, nowhere applies the name of Scotland to North Britain; but in that part of the Chronicle which extends from 925 to 975, and which, if not contemporary, was at least compiled in the latter year, has, in 933, ‘In this year King Æthelstan went into Scotland;’ and in 937, in the contemporary poem on the battle of Brunanburg, Constantine’s people are called _Sceotta_, and the name applied to Ireland is Yraland.—_Saxon Chron._, _ad an._