 The Frankish "Annales Bertiniani" may record the conquest of the Inner Hebrides by Vikings in 847.Amlaíb Conung, who died in 874, is described as the "son of the king of Lochlainn" in the "Fragmentary Annals of Ireland" also suggesting an early date for an organised kingdom of Viking Scotland.In the same source Amlaíb is also recorded as having gone to the aid of his father Gofraidh who was under assault from Vikings in Lochlainn, circa 872.