Scotland under her early kings, Volume 1 (of 2) : $b a history of the kingdom to the close of the thirteenth centuryRobertson, Eben William
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Scotland under her early kings, Volume 1 (of 2) : $b a history of the kingdom to the close of the thirteenth century
Robertson, Eben William
Scotland -- History -- To 1603
[84] _Chron. Sax._ 949. _Innes_, Ap. 3. The seventh year of Malcolm
corresponds exactly with 949, the year in which Olave reappeared in
Northumbria, and the curious tradition preserved in the old chronicle
that Constantine resumed his authority for a week to head the Scottish
army in an incursion to the Tees, must surely be connected with the
arrival of his son-in-law, and the reluctance of Malcolm to break the
engagement by which he held Cumberland.
[85] _A. F. M._, 950. _Chron. Sax._ 952.
[86] _Tigh._ 980. _A. F. M._, 1014. The account of Tighernach reveals
both the extent of Olave’s power and the far greater importance of the
first victory which broke it. The death of the old warrior is described
rather quaintly by the annalist “post pœnitentiam et _bonos mores_.”
[87] _Chron. Sax._ 954. _Sim. Dun. de Gestis_, 1072. _Wendover_, vol.
i., p. 402. _Heimskringla, Saga_ 4, c. 4. The Henricus and Reginaldus
of Wendover are probably the Harek and Rognwald of the Saga. Simeon
calls Maco or Maccus a son of Olave, but Olave had no son of that name,
and Maco was probably “Maccus Archipirata,” or Magnus Haraldson, king
of Man and the Islands, who was the head of a different branch of the
Hy Ivar. His father, Harald, who was killed in Connaught in 940, was
the son of Sitric _Mac_ Ivar, or the elder Sitric, who killed, or was
killed by, his brother Godfrey, and was the head of the Norsemen of
Limerick. The power of the Limerick Hy Ivar appears to have received
a severe shock when Olave Godfreyson, shortly before the battle of
Brunanburgh, destroyed all their ships and captured their leader, Olave
Cen-Cairedh. _A. F. M._, 934, 938.
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