Note 68 — CHAPTER THE THIRD. CONSTANTINE THE SECOND—A. D. 900-943.

An. Ult. 926. Chron. Sax. 925, 926. According to the Irish annalists, Sitric died immaturâ aetate, and consequently his son Olave must have been too young to offer any opposition to Athelstan. The MS. C. T., B. iv., which alludes to Sitric and Godfrey, is, like the Ulster annals, a year behind the true date at this period. As Godfrey was present at a battle in Ireland, fought on 28th December 926, and left Dublin in the following year, upon hearing of the death of his brother, returning thither after an absence of six months, the transactions to which Malmesbury and the Chronicle allude must have taken place during this interval.