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A.D. 891 This year went the army eastward; and King Arnulf fought with the land-force, ere the ships arrived in conjunction with the eastern Franks, and Saxons, and Bavarians, and put them to flight. And three Scots came to King Alfred in a boat without any oars from Ireland: whence they stole away, because they would live in a state of pilgrimage, for the love of God, they recked not where. The boat in which they came was made of two hides and a half; and they took with them provisions for seven nights; and within seven nights they came to land in Cornwall, and soon after went to King Alfred. They were thus named; Dubslane, and Macbeth, and Maelinmun, And Swinney, the best teacher that was among the Scots, departed this life. And the same year after Easter, about the gang-days, or before, appeared the star that men in book-Latin call cometa : some men say that in English it may be termed "hairy star;" for that there standeth off from it a long gleam of light, whilom on one side, whilom on each.
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The Macbeth mentioned here isn't the Shakespearean Macbeth, who reigned in Scotland from 1043 till he got his head cut off in a stone circle in 1057.
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