Note 551 — Chapter VIII · THE KINGDOM OF SCOTIA.

The tract on the Wars of the Gaedhil with the Gaill says that one wing of Brian’s army consisted of ten mormaers of Brian with their foreign auxiliaries. The word Gall, here translated ‘foreign,’ usually means the Northmen, but it seems here used in its general sense of foreign. Though the Mormaer of Marr is the only one named, the whole force of Alban was probably here arrayed on Brian’s side.