Footnote 594: How the Hungarian story should have arisen it seems difficult to guess, but possibly it may have been brought forward about the time of Queen Margaret, when her own connection with Hungary might lead some of the ecclesiastical parties to suppose that a legend of this kind would find favour with her. There is a cluster of Adrians in the Martyrologies about this time. On 1st March, Adrianus, a Roman martyr of Bologna; Adrianus, martyr in Africa; Adrianus of Marseilles. On the 4th March, Adrianus, martyr, with thirty-three companions of Nicomedia, under Diocletian; and on the 5th, Adrianus, martyr of Cæsarea; but there is no Adrianus of Hungary. Bishop Forbes notices, in his _Calendars_ (p. 267), that Usuardus has also a St. Gagius on the 4th, who seems to correspond with the Gayus of the legend. The Irish name that seems to come nearest Adrian in form is Odhran; and the Martyrology of Donegal has this name on 6th March, and we find a subsequent bishop of St. Andrews called Mac Gilla Odran, or the son of the servant of Odran. The parishes of Flisk and Lindores, both within the parochia, are dedicated to a St. Macgidrin, and his name is connected with Macduff’s Cross, the boundary-stone of the region of Fife. It is possible that the name which appears under this form may be that which was Latinised Adrianus. He may also have been one of the three bishops elected at Abernethy. Footnote 595: See the interesting notice of the Coves at Caiplie and other places on the coast of Fife in the _Sculptured Stones of Scotland_, vol. ii., appendix to preface, p. lxxxvii.; and Dr. John Stuart’s remarks in his Preface to the _Chartulary of the Isle of May_, p. v. Footnote 596: 878 _Scrin Coluim Cille ocus aminna orchena do thiachtain do cum n-Erenn for teicheadh na Gallaibh_.—_An. Ult._ Footnote 597: 880 Feradach mac Cormac abbas Iae pausat.—_Ib._ Footnote 598: 891 Flann mac Maileduin abbas Iae in pace quievit.—_An. Ult._ Footnote 599: _Mart. Donegal_, p. 55. Footnote 600: 927 _Maelbrigda mac Tornain Comhorba Patraic et Coluimcille_, felici senectute quievit.—_An. Ult._ Footnote 601: At the time this Life was compiled, the name of Scotia had already been transferred to Scotland, and a candid examination of the Life shows the scene of his early years was in Scotland. Footnote 602: He is said in the Life to have died in the seventieth year of his age and the thirtieth of his pilgrimage, but it began when Constantin was king of Alban, and Eric ruled at York. Eric’s reign at York began about 938, and Constantin died in 942, which limits us to four years for the year of his birth. Footnote 603: Colgan explains Kaddroë as _Cath_, battle, _Roe_, the same as _Agon_, place of contest.—_A.SS._, p. 503. Footnote 604: This part of the Life is printed in the _Chronicle of the Picts and Scots_, p. 106. CHAPTER VIII.