Johannis de Fordun Chronica gentis Scotorum . uan placeAlpin immediately after Dungal, and he is followed by eleven kings,two only of whom are mentioned by Fordun. There is thus an in-terval of a hundred years between this Alpin and Kenneth mac Alpinwho conquered the Picts in a war extending to 850. This interval isfilled up by Fordun, after the later Chronicles, by altering the order ofthe kings, postdating their reigns, and interpolating fictitious kings, soas to bring this Alpin down a century later and identify him withthe father of Kenneth. The table which follows will show the differ-enc
Johannis de Fordun Chronica gentis Scotorum . uan placeAlpin immediately after Dungal, and he is followed by eleven kings,two only of whom are mentioned by Fordun. There is thus an in-terval of a hundred years between this Alpin and Kenneth mac Alpinwho conquered the Picts in a war extending to 850. This interval isfilled up by Fordun, after the later Chronicles, by altering the order ofthe kings, postdating their reigns, and interpolating fictitious kings, soas to bring this Alpin down a century later and identify him withthe father of Kenneth. The table which follows will show the differ-ence between the statements of the old authorities and the systemerected by Fordun upon the later Chronicles :— fc> fi o O coo ai 8 ^ 1? <t1 «O 1—1 [^ w HO g 05 — o<5 P^ o -aj O « _<3 1 c^ s >o •ri^ •^ co Si« kO <» o s^-g N bq ^ O o £-2 I—ifl J5 CO «!)_^§ifi ^«o_e-5 ^ gS gS s^S ^f^; ^f^ c^f^ f^ f^ wo S pq-i tp o O -^ ^. §fR Pc^ ^... w bo « « - p ^^ o ^ --^ 5 5 Iz; O O Ogr^^VUOOi^SMO^^*^ Wfiooo<ii<ilHM < O m O 00 ~ ?< OJ n &<_ 4) O cst^ S o <o l^ 404 NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS. BOOK IV. This Book contains the history of Scotland from the conquest of thePicts in the ninth century by Kenneth mac Alpin to the accession ofMalcolm iii. Forduns history now becomes more trustworthy, as hehas no longer an object in adapting his materials to a false theory. TheChronicles too now more or less accord with one another, and we havethe important addition of the Pictish Chronicle, the oldest and mostauthentic of all. Cap. II. The account of Alpin here is taken from the Chronicle ofHuntingdon {Chron. Picis and Scots, p. 209), as will appear from thefollowing comparison :— Chronicle of Huntingdon. Anno ab Innarnatione Domini oc-tingentesimo tricesimo quarto, con-gressi sunt Scotti cum Pictis in sol-lempnitate PaschaH. Et phires denobiUoribus Pictorum Alpinus Rex Scottorum vi
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