Note 570 — Chapter VIII · THE KINGDOM OF SCOTIA.
Reading edition
1034 Maelcolaim mac Cinaetha Ri Alpan ordan iarthair Eorpa uile deg.—Chron. Picts and Scots, p. 77. Ordan means nobility, dignity. The Chronicle of 1165 says, ‘Ipse etiam multas oblationes tam ecclesiis quam clero ea die distribuit’ (Ib. p. 131), which may account for the epithets applied to him.