Note 510 — Chapter VII · THE KINGDOM OF ALBAN.
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944 Strathclyde was ravaged by the Saxons.—Brut of Tywysogion.
946 Stratclut vastata est a Saxonibus.—An. Camb.
The life of St. Cadroë gives us almost a contemporary notice of the Cumbrian kingdom. St. Cadroë was a native of Alban, and flourished in the reign of Constantin who fought at Brunanburh, and left him to go on a foreign mission. He came to the ‘terra Cumbrorum,’ and Dovenaldus, the king who ruled over this people, received him gladly and conducted him ‘usque Loidam civitatem quæ est confinium Normannorum atque Cumbrorum.’—Chron. Picts and Scots, p. 116. There he is received by Gunderic, a nobleman, who takes him to King Erick at York, who is no doubt Eric Bloody Axe, whom Aethelstan had settled in the country.