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The 'Chronicle of the Kings of Alba', or 'Scottish Chronicle', is a short written chronicle of the Kings of Alba, covering the period from the time of King Cináed I mac Ailpín (d. 858) until the reign of King Cináed II mac Maíl Coluim (r. 971–995). W.F. Skene called it the 'Chronicle of the Kings of Scots', and some have called it the 'Older Scottish Chronicle', but ''Chronicle of the Kings of Alba'' is emerging as the standard scholarly name.
The sole surviving version of the text comes from the Poppleton Manuscript, now in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. It is the fourth of seven consecutive Scottish documents in the manuscript, the first six of which were probably put together in the early thirteenth century by the man who wrote ''de Situ Albanie''. The ''Chronicle'' is a vital source for the period it covers, and, despite some later Francization, is very much written in Hiberno-Latin, showing evidence of a scribe with some knowledge of contemporary Middle Irish orthography. The original text was without doubt written in Scotland, probably in the early eleventh century, shortly after the reign of Cináed II, the last reign it relates.

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★ Anderson, Alan Orr, ''Early Sources of Scottish History: AD 500-1286'', Vol. 1, (Edinburgh, 1923)

★ Anderson, Marjorie O., ''Kings and Kingship in Early Scotland'', (Edinburgh, 1973)

★ Skene, William F., ''Chronicles of the Picts and Scots: And Other Memorials of Scottish History'', (Edinburgh, 1867)

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★ English translation of the text, with Short notes