In this setting Malcolm had several cards he could play over Northumbria, but he played them crudely and badly. He failed to increase his hereditary claim by marriage. Instead he married Ingibiorg, daughter of Thorfinn.
But Malcolm wanted them for Scotland, as did many of his successors. In his reign of thirty-six years he made several attempts to seize them. His motives are not known for certain, but probably he saw them as a kind of 'no-man's land' ...
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... Lundie , Laird of , iv . 42 . Lundin , Sir Richard , goes over to the English , i . 51 ; his advice at the battle of Stirling , 54 . Lundy ... clan Chattan , ii . 258 . Macintosh , heir of the chief of Chattan , ii ... clan , ii . 366 .