Facts: - succession: king of alba - reign: 973-977 - successor: kenneth ii - death date: 977 - predecessor: kenneth ii - house: alpin - father: indulf , king of alba - name: amlaib Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of amlaib , king of scotland .
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amlaib mac ilduilb -lrb- modern gaelic : '' amhlaigh '' -rrb- , known in english as simply amlaib -lrb- died 977 -rrb- was king of scots during the 970s .he was the son of king indulf -lrb- idulb mac causantin -rrb- and brother of king cuilen -lrb- cuilen mac iduilb -rrb- .his name is of old norse or norse-gael origin , in this case the old irish equivalent of olaf .he is known from the notice of his death in the '' annals of tigernach '' , which reports that he was killed by kenneth ii of scotland -lrb- cinaed mac mail coluim -rrb- .his name is not included in any extant king lists , nor is he named as a king in 973 when kenneth ii met with king edgar the peaceable at chester , so that the length of his reign is unknown .alex woolf asserts that the norse origin of the name amlaib '' ... strongly suggests that his maternal kind may have been from a scandinavian background and they are likely to have been a branch of the ui Imair ... ... he may well be the grandson of amlaib cuaran , or his cousin amlaib son of gothfrith '' .