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Scip Sigmundar Scriþo fra landi. Gyltar grimor Grafnir stafnar Byrþo viþ a borþa þá er þeir börþuz Sigar oc Siggeir Suþr a Fivi.
The ships of Sigmund Slipped from land. Golden helms Carved prows And ship met ship Then when fought Sigar and Siggeir South at Fife.
Saxo says the Picts were reduced by Lodbroc, and, as Fife was the seat of the Pictish government, it is probable that the natives aided the sons of Lochlin against the tribes of Morven. Hence one of Kinneaich 11. allegations against the Picts was ”confoederatio eorum cum paganis Saxonibus contra Scotos. That the people here termed Saxons were Norwegians seems clear from a very antient chronicle, wherein it is said ”Normanni integrum annum degerunt in Pictavia. These Scandinavian auxiliaries incorporated with the natives, whose language, of course, became tinged with the Teutonic, as is evident from the names of many places in Fife. Thus Mucros (more antiently Kil-ri-mon) signifies the monk’s cross; Fossvege (Fossway) the place near the cataracts; Herad-Nachtan Nachtan's territor
