King of the Picts and Scots (Alba), also called Malcolm Macdonald.Malcolm succeeded to the crown when his cousin Constantine II entered amonastery (943). He annexed Moray to the kingdom for the first time.After driving the Danes from York, the English king Edmund turned Cumbriaover to Malcolm, apparently as a fief or seal of alliance. Later, whenNorsemen again invaded the land, the Scots sent raids against theEnglish, and in 954 the West Saxon king Eadred reunited the northerncounties to his dominions. Malcolm was slain the same year at Fordoun inthe Mearns in a conflict with his own northern regions.