The chronicles tell of events; but they show also the successive influences that were at work upon Scotland - Irish, Scandanavian, English, and Norman.

Preface (1922).

In the Roman calendar, the days are numbered backwards from the Kalends, Nones, and Ides, of each month.

Calendar notes.

The principle that names should be spelt according to the normal usage of the time to which they belong cannot be systematically obeyed in practice.

Orthographical notes.

I consider it worth while to give to memory how Scotland was first inhabited, and by what inhabitants; and by what names it was called, and into how many parts it was divided.

Introduction.

Giraldus Cambrensis, Topographia Hibernica. Opera, vol. v, p. 147
Note that the northern part of Britain is called Scotland, because it was inhabited by this nation of the Scots.
The northern part of the island of Britain also is called Scotland, because a nation originally sprung from [the Irish] is understood to inhabit that land. And this is shown even to the present day by their affinity both in language and in culture, also both in arms and in customs.

Vol. I, part I. Establishment of the kingdoms of Dalriata and Northumbria.