Editing Áed mac Cináeda (section)

== Sources ==
The ''[[Chronicle of the Kings of Alba]]'' says of Áed: "Edus [Áed] held the same [''i.e.'', the kingdom] for one year. The shortness of his reign has bequeathed nothing memorable to history. He was slain in the civitas of Nrurim." Nrurim is unidentified.

The [[Annals of Ulster]] says that, in 878, "Áed mac Cináeda, king of the Picts, was killed by his associates."<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=iAa6JoLgFRwC&dq=%C3%81ed+mac+Cin%C3%A1eda&pg=PA173 Calise, J. M. P., ''Pictish Sourcebook'', Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002] {{ISBN|9780313322952}}</ref> Tradition, reported by [[George Chalmers (antiquarian)|George Chalmers]] in his ''Caledonia'' (1807), and by the [[New Statistical Account]] (1834–1845), has it that the early-historic mound of the Cunninghillock by [[Inverurie]] is the burial place of Áed. This is based on reading Nrurim as ''Inruriu''.

A longer account is interpolated in [[Andrew of Wyntoun]]'s ''Orygynale Cronykil of Scotland''. This says that Áed reigned for one year and was killed by his successor [[Giric]] in [[Strathallan]] and other king lists have the same report.

It is uncertain which if any, of ''[[The Prophecy of Berchán]]'''s kings should be taken to be Áed. [[William Forbes Skene]] presumed that the following verses referred to Áed:

<blockquote>129. Another king will take [sovereignty]; small is the profit that he does not divide. Alas for Scotland thenceforward. His name will be the Furious.<br />130. He will be but a short time over Scotland. The will be no [word uncertain] unplundered. Alas for Scotland, through the youth; alas for their books, alas for their bequests.<br />131. He will be nine years in the kingdom. I shall tell you – it will be a tale of truth – he dies without bell, with communion, at evening, in a fatal pass.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Graves |first1=Charles |title=An Attempt to Decipher and Explain the Inscriptions on the Newton Stone |journal=Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland |date=1886 |volume=20 |page=312 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kO0RAAAAYAAJ&q=skene&pg=PA312 |access-date=10 August 2016}}</ref></blockquote>

Áed's son, [[Constantín mac Áeda]], became king in 900.