 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.