sentences:  Eric's sudden appearance in the "Chronicle", first noted by the D-text, is a puzzling one, lacking any information as to how or why he emerged on the scene.As hinted above, the "Life" of the Scottish saint Cathróe of Metz, written by a cleric (Reimann) who claimed to have been a former pupil of the saint, may possibly shed some light on his background.St Cathróe, a Scottish saint with a Brythonic name, visited a certain King Eric ("Erichus") in York as he proceeded southwards from his native Strathclyde and Cumbria to "Loida civitas", sometimes identified as Leeds, on the boundary with Cumbria, ultimately intending to go to West France.