Succeeded Culen in Scottish Pictish monarchy, 971. Extended his kingdom north of the Tay and made raids into Northumbria. "Gave the great city of Brechin to the Lord." Probabkly secured Edinburgh. Consolidated central Scotland. Said to have been treachorously slain by Fenella. It is improbable that he received Lothian as a fief from Edgar (The concise dictionary of national biography. Part 1 : from the beginnigs til 1900. London : Oxford University Press, 1969, pg. 718).

Killed on behalf of his Moray cousin & successor 995 (Williamson, David. Debrett's kings and queens of Britain. Topsfield, Mass. : Salem House Puboishers, 1986, pg. 228).