The stanzas of The Prophecy of Berchán covering Constantine III give him a mostly negative assessment: " A king will take sovereignity, who will not be king ; after him, Scotland will be nothing.

Willingly or not — the 11th-century Prophecy of Berchán, a verse history in the form of a supposed prophecy, states that it was not a voluntary decision that Constantine II abdicated in 943 and entered a monastery, leaving the kingdom to Malcolm.

The Prophecy of Berchán appears to suggest that another king reigned for a short while between Donald II and Constantine II, saying " half a day will he take sovereignty ".

The Prophecy of Berchán, a verse history which purports to be a prophecy, describes him as " the generous king of Fortriu ", and says:

Verses of The Prophecy of Berchán allude to the murder of another Scottish king: " Alas a king will take sovereignity for four nights and one month ; I think it is grievous that the Gaels will boast, woe to him who celebrates him.

He was a son of Cináed mac Maíl Coluim ; the Prophecy of Berchán says that his mother was a woman of Leinster and refers to him as Máel Coluim Forranach, " the destroyer ".

" The Prophecy of Berchán, perhaps the inspiration for John of Fordun and Andrew of Wyntoun's accounts where Máel Coluim is killed fighting bandits, says that he died by violence, fighting " the parricides ", suggested to be the sons of Máel Brigte of Moray.

The Prophecy of Berchán, however, claims that he died " in the house of the same holy apostle, where his father ", that is at the céli dé monastery of St Andrews.

Donald is given the epithet Dásachtach, " the Madman ", by the Prophecy of Berchán.

The Prophecy of Berchán places his death in Kintyre and says " e will not be king at the time of his death ", while the 12th century Acta Sancti Lasriani claims that he was expelled from the kingship.

American Celticist Benjamin Hudson, relying on the Prophecy of Berchán in his 1996 book of the same name, is confident that Eochaid can be identified and that he was indeed a Scottish or Pictish king.

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