Mackay, A. J. G.. DONALD VI (d 900) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. (Un...

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Mackay, A. J. G.. DONALD VI (d 900) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. (United Kingdom: Oxford University Press, 2004), citing, "According to the narrative of ‘The Wars of the Gaedhill with theGael’ (TODD'S edit. p. 29) a later attack, led by Sitric, son of Imhair, came further south, defeated the Scots, and (SKENE, i. 338) slew Donald at Dun-fother (Dunottar) in Kincardine. But the Ulsterannals, as well as the earliest Scottish historians, ignore this invasion, and record the death of Donald about 900, according to Fordun, at Forres, not in battle but from infirmity, brought on by hislabour in reducing the highland robber tribes...," DONALD VI. [Subscription].

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