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CHAP v
Aulaf, son-m-
Ides-
120 THE SCANDINAVIANS, AND
Thus allied to the Kin g 8 of Scotland and Ireland,
Aulaf also connected himself with the Lords of the
1
Auda,
daughter
of Ketil
Flatneff,* Chief of the Hebrides; and their son,
Thorstein the Red, 3 married Thurida, 4 whose Scan-
dinavian father, Eyvind Austman, 5 was husband of
Ilafarta, one of Cearbhall's daughters. 6
We have already seen that the Picts of Scotland
had a common origin with those on the sea coast of
Ulster, where the Northmen first settled. 7 While
they were thus plundering and settling among the
Irish and Irish Picts, they were pursuing the same
course with the Scots and Picts of Scotland.
Kavagesof th The Northern Picts had been the victims of the
Norsemen on
the Scottish early invaders ; so had been the Scots, or Men of
Picta.
Alba. In A.D. 835, Cinaedh, son of Alpin, King of
the Scots, sought
assistance from his kindred in
Ireland, and Godfraidh, son of Fearghus, Chief of
Orghialla (Ulster), went to Alba to strengthen the
Dalriada, 8 and thence, perhaps, at the request of
Cinaedh, son of Alpin, became Chief of the Hebrides
also.
In A.D. 839 the Southern Picts were invaded, and
in "a battle by the Gentiles against the Men of
Fortren, Eogannen M'CEngus (King of the Picts),
and his brother Bran, were slain with a multidude
1
Scripta
Olaf Trygvasson's Saga. Harfagr's Saga, cap. xxii.
Historica Islandoruni
Latine reddita, vol. i., p. 224, cap.
95. Twelve vols., 12mo: Hafniee,
1828-1832.
1 Landnamabok, p. 107.
Nial's Saga, p. 389. Harald 835.
*
Landnamabok, p. 109.
*
Ibid, ibid.
*
Ibid, p. 228.
7
Supra, pp. 83, 84.
* Annals of Four Masters, A.D.