Note 101 — Chapter IV · Kenneth the Second—971–995.

All these events must have occurred between 978 and 994, for the battle of Dungal’s Nœp was fought in or before the latter year. Kari Solmundason, and the son of Nial, were present at this engagement, and after remaining two winters and a summer with Sigurd, departed for Norway in the following summer, i.e., two years after the battle, with the tribute for Jarl Hakon, and as the Jarl’s death occurred in 996, the battle must have been fought at least two years before that date. It probably occurred a few years earlier, as the same Saga alludes to the defeat of Godred of Man, whose reign extended from the death of his brother Magnus, about 977 to 989. An. Inisf. 977. Tigh. 989. Niala Saga, Col. de Reb. Alb., p. 334, 338. The Hundi of the Sagas seems to have been Crinan. The account of these transactions is taken from the Heimskringla Saga 3, c. 27 to 32; Saga 4, c. 3, 4, 5; Saga 7, c. 99; and the Olaf Tryggvessonar Niala and Orkneyinga Sagas in Col. de Reb. Alb., p. 327, etc.