Áed mac Cináeda ( Modern Scottish Gaelic: ''Aodh mac Choinnich''; ;

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: Hugh; died 878) was a son of

Cináed mac Ailpín Kenneth MacAlpin ( mga, Cináed mac Ailpin, label=Medieval Gaelic, gd, Coinneach mac Ailpein, label=Modern Scottish Gaelic; 810 – 13 February 858) or Kenneth I was King of Dál Riada (841–850), King of the Picts (843–858), and the Kin ...

. He became king of the

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in 877, when he succeeded his brother Constantín mac Cináeda. He was nicknamed Áed of the White Flowers, the wing-footed ( la, alipes) or the white-foot ( la, albipes).

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The ''

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'' says of Áed: "Edus �edheld the same 'i.e.'', the kingdomfor one year. The shortness of his reign has bequeathed nothing memorable to history. He was slain in the civitas of Nrurim." Nrurim is unidentified. The

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say that, in 878, "Áed mac Cináeda, king of the Picts, was killed by his associates." Tradition, reported by George Chalmers in his ''Caledonia'' (1807), and by the New Statistical Account (1834–1845), has it that the early-historic mound of the Cunninghillock by

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is the burial place of Áed. This is based on reading Nrurim as ''Inruriu''. A longer account is interpolated in

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's ''Orygynale Cronykil of Scotland''. This says that Áed reigned one year and was killed by his successor

Giric Giric mac Dúngail ( Modern Gaelic: ''Griogair mac Dhunghail''; fl. c. 878–889), known in English simply as Giric and nicknamed Mac Rath ("Son of Fortune"), was a king of the Picts or the king of Alba. The Irish annals record nothing of ...

in Strathallan and other king lists have the same report. It is uncertain which, if any, of the ''

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s kings should be taken to be Áed. William Forbes Skene presumed that the following verses referred to Áed:

129. Another king will take overeignty small is the profit that he does not divide. Alas for Scotland thenceforward. His name will be the Furious.
130. He will be but a short time over Scotland. The will be no ord uncertainunplundered. Alas for Scotland, through the youth; alas for their books, alas for their bequests.
131. He will be nine years in the kingdom. I shall tell you—it will be a tale of truth—he dies without bell, with communion, at evening, in a fatal pass.

Áed's son,

Constantín mac Áeda Causantín mac Áeda ( Modern Gaelic: , anglicised Constantine II; born no later than 879; died 952) was an early King of Scotland, known then by the Gaelic name ''Alba''. The Kingdom of Alba, a name which first appears in Constantine's lifeti ...

, became king in 900.

References

Sources

* Anderson, Alan Orr, ''Early Sources of Scottish History A.D 500–1286'', volume 1. Reprinted with corrections. Paul Watkins, Stamford, 1990. * Anderson, Marjorie Ogilvie, ''Kings and Kingship in Early Scotland.'' Scottish Academic Press, Edinburgh, revised edition 1980. * Duncan, A. A. M., ''The Kingship of the Scots 842–1292: Succession and Independence.'' Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2002. * Smyth, Alfred P., ''Warlords and Holy Men: Scotland AD 80–1000.'' E.J. Arnold, London, 1984 (reprinted Edinburgh UP).

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The Chronicle of the Kings of Alba
(CKA)

- history of Inverurie
Second Statistical Account
ol. XII (County of Aberdeen), p. 681 {{DEFAULTSORT:Aed Of Scotland 878 deaths 9th-century Scottish monarchs Burials at Iona Abbey House of Alpin Year of birth unknown Gaels

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