Who were the parents of King Galdus?
We’ve examined the legend of King Galdus before, more than once, but far from exhaustively. Today, however, I want to look at his parents. Let’s assume that we accept the identification of Galdus / Calgacos with Cairbre Cromchenn, as discussed in those articles. In this case, the Gaelic and Irish genealogical material give two variant identities for his father: either Cairbre Findmór (equivalent to Boece’s Corbredus I, his father in the chronicle account) or Dáire Dornmór (eq