and silver, with raiment and horses' and they sped [Cathróe] with God's blessing; and conducted by the king himself he came to the Cumbrians' land." The writer tells us that King Dovenaldus ruled the Cumbrians, and that he was Cathróe's kinsman. The king escorted Catroe to Loidam Civitatem (read as Leeds or Carlisle), "which is the boundary between the Cumbrians and the Northmen". In York, Cathróe was welcomed, the writer claims, by King Eric, whose wife was a relative of Cathróe's. This is problematic as Eric Bloodaxe is not thought to have ruled York at the time of the journey, and Eric's wife Gunnhild was said to be Norwegian. Later career Cathróe was abbot of Waulsort for several years, until Adelbero, Bishop of Metz, gave him the administration of St Felix's Abbey in Metz. Hagiography One Ousmann (or Reimann or Erimann) wrote a hagiography. Notes References Reimann or Ousmann, De S. Cadroe abbate, ed. John Colgan, Acta Sanctorum Hiberniae, Vol. 1. pp. 494 ff; in part reprinted by W.F. Skene, Chronicles of the Picts, Chronicles of the Scots. pp. 106–116; ed. the Bollandists, Acta Sanctorum. 1865. March 1, 473-80 (incomplete); ed. and tr. A.O. Anderson, Early Sources of Scottish History, A.D. 500 to 1286. (from Colgan's edition, pp. 495–7). No full translation has appeared to this date. Anderson, Alan Orr, Early Sources of Scottish History A.D 500–1286, volume 1. Reprinted with corrections. Paul Watkins, Stamford, 1990. Busse, Peter E. "Catroe/Cadroe." In Celtic Culture. A Historical Encyclopedia, ed. John Koch. Vol. 1. Santa Barbara, 2006. 356. Downham, Clare, "Erik Bloodaxe - axed? The Mystery of the Last Viking King of York", Medieval Scandinavia 14 (2004) 51–77. Dumville, D.N. "St Cathróe of Metz and the hagiography of exoticism." In Studies in Irish Hagiography. Saints and scholars, ed. John Carey, Máire Herbert and Pádraig Ó Riain. Dublin, 2001. 172–88. MacQuarrie, Alan, The Saints of Scotland: Essays in Scottish Church History AD 450–1093. Edinburgh: John Donald, 1997. MacQuarrie, Alan. "Catroe (900/01–971)." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, 2004. Accessed 27 Jan 2009. 10th-century births 970s deaths 10th-century Christian saints Medieval Scottish saints Scottish Roman Catholic saints