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839.

posito, Kenethus Secundus Alpini filius paternæ necis ultionem
ita perniciter adversus Pictos est prosecutus, ut, illorum viribus
multis asperis præliis fractis, tandem eos ex omni Britanniâ
expulit, et Pictorum Regnum suo Imperio adjecit Anno
Christi 839.

PICTIS ita prostratis, agros (per eos antea occupatos) pro
virtute cujusque suis divisit, et, ut simul cum Pictis eorum
memoria interiret, statuit illorum Possessiones, Regiones,
Urbes et Castra novis nominibus (veteribus obliteratis) de-
signari, et in hâc Divisione Otholiniam (regionem ad id usque
tempus ita vocatam) Fifo Duffo viro nobili et bellicoso, et ex
priscis Scotis orto (inclaruerat enim hujus viri virtus in bello
adversus Pictos gesto) elargitus est.

INDE verò hæc Regio ad futuram rerum a Fifo Duffo strenuè
gestarum memoriam Fifa est denominata.

HIC Fifus Duffus fuit primus Fifæ Thanus, et omnium Fifæ
Thanorum Comitumque [cognominis Makduffi] progenitor.
Inter Fifum Duffum primum, et Duncanum Fifæ sextum et
ultimum, Thanum, sed primum Comitem, quatuor intervenere
Thani, quorum Nomina in Scotorum Chronicis non recor-
dantur.

mockery, Kenneth, second son of Alpin, so swiftly prosecuted
vengeance against the Picts for the slaughter of his father, that
their forces having been vanquished in many fierce battles, he at
length expelled them from all Britain, and added the Kingdom
of the Picts to his empire in the year of Christ 839.

The Picts, having been thus destroyed, he divided the lands
(formerly occupied by them)among his own people for their bravery;
and in order that, together with the Picts, the memory of them
should perish, he ordained their possessions, countries, cities, and
castles to be designated by new names (the old being obliterated);
and in this division he gave Otholinia (the district which until that
time was so called) to Fife Duff, a man noble and warlike, and
sprung from the ancient Scots (because the valour of this man had
been very notable in the war carried on against the Picts).

Henceforth, this country was denominated Fife, as a lasting
memorial of the deeds strenuously done by Fife Duff.

This Fife Duff was the first Thane of Fife, and progenitor of all
the Thanes and Earls of Fife [of the surname of Macduff]. Be-
tween Fife Duff the first and Duncan the sixth and last Thane,
but first Earl, four Thanes intervened, whose names are not
recorded in the chronicles of the Scots.