Note 608 — Chapter VIII · THE KINGDOM OF SCOTIA.

Ailred, in the battle of the Standard, makes Walter l’Espec say, ‘Angliæ victor Willelmus per Laodoniam, Calatriam, Scotiam usque ad Abernith penetraret.’ The river Avon was the boundary of Laodonia. Between that river and the Carron was the district called Calatria. Dufoter de Calateria witnesses a charter of King David I. in the Glasgow Chartulary, and he appears in the Chartulary of Cambuskenneth as ‘vicecomes de Strivilyn.’

The ford King William crossed was the great entrance into Scotland proper, which King Kenneth fortified when ‘vallavit ripas vadorum Forthin.’