Note 41 — Chapter II · The Kingdom of Scotland—843–900.

This expression, the “laws of Aodh,” may have found its way into the chronicle without the transcriber being aware of its meaning. In the Irish annals the lex Patricii or lex Columbæ alludes to the right of visitation and other dues belonging to the representatives or Cowarbs of those saints; and the confirmation of the “lex Aodh Fin” by the Gael may mean the recognition of the claims of his descendants, the MacAlpin family, to Can and Cuairt over the provinces of the Picts. Royal law was identical with royal supremacy.