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[Footnote 28: _B.N._, c. 85.]

[Footnote 29: _O.S._, 12. _F.B._, 187. The _F.B._ makes the scene of this battle Skitten Moor.]

[Footnote 30: _F.B._, 187.]

[Footnote 31: _Thorgisl_, I, 4. (_Orig. Islandicae_, ii, p. 635.) In _The Old Statistical Account_ (Tongue) there is a tradition of such a fight on Eilean nan Gall at the entrance to the Bay of Tongue, then in Caithness.]

[Footnote 32: p. 23.]

[Footnote 33: See Sir Wm. Fraser's _Book of Sutherland_, and Pedigree in Appendix. There is a Craig Amlaiph (Olaf) above Torboll and Cambusmore (both in Cat) near the Mound in Sudrland. There were no Thanes of the De Moravia line in Sutherland.]

[Footnote 34: See _The Pictish Nation and Church_, pp. 129-32, and 341.]

[Footnote 35: See _Darratha-liod_, published by the Viking Club, 1910.]

[Footnote 36: _Burnt Njal_, c. 151.]

[Footnote 37: Iceland accepted Christianity by a vote of its Thing in 1000 A.D. "Blood" often fell in Iceland; after a volcanic eruption, rain was tinged with red.]

[Footnote 38: Tudor, _O. and S._, p. 20.]

[Footnote 39: Rods used for dividing and pressing downwards.]

[Footnote 40: See _Scandinavian Britain_ (Collingwood), p. 256-7, where Mr. Gilbert Goudie's _Antiquities of Shetland_ is referred to.]

CHAPTER IV.

[Footnote 1: _Reg. Morav._, p. xxiv, and _Charter_ No. 264, p. 342.]

[Footnote 2: Dunbar, _Scottish Kings_, pp. 4-7.]

[Footnote 3: Some authorities hold that Macbeth was the son of a sister of Malcolm. His property was probably in Ross and Cromarty. See also Rhys' _Celtic Britain_, p. 196.]

[Footnote 4: Skuli was first Earl of Caithness, which then included Sutherland, see _ante_, but he was Norse.]

[Footnote 5: _O.S._, 16.]

[Footnote 6: Trithing--the same word as Riding in Yorks.h.i.+re, one-third. See _Scot. Hist. Review_, Oct. 1918. J. Storer Clouston.

Ulfreksfirth is Larne Bay.]

[Footnote 7: _O.S._, 17, 18.]

[Footnote 8: _O.S._, 20, 21, and _St. Olaf's Saga_, cix.]

[Footnote 9: _O.S._, 22.]

[Footnote 10: _O.S._, 22. See _Corpus Poetic.u.m Boreale_, vol. ii, pp.

180-3, 195 and notes.]

[Footnote 11: _O.S._, 22. Dunbar, _Scottish Kings_, p. 15 and note 22. The Standing Stane was removed to Altyre about 1820. See Romilly Allen, _Early Christian Monuments of Scotland_, p. 136, "removed from the College field at the village of Roseisle."]

[Footnote 12: _O.S._, 22.]

[Footnote 13: _O.S._, 22, 23.]

[Footnote 14: Robertson, _Early Kings_, vol. i, p. 116 and note, 116 and 117.]

[Footnote 15: _O.S._, 23, 24, 25, 26. _St. Olaf's Saga_, c. cviii, ccxlv.]

[Footnote 16: _O.S._, 27. These raids are unknown to English historians.]

[Footnote 17: _O.S._, 30.]

[Footnote 18: _O.S._, 31.]

[Footnote 19: _O.S._, 33, 34. See Tudor's _Orkney and Shetland_, p.

356. "Roland's Geo" is at the N. end of Papa Stronsay.]

[Footnote 20: "Christ Church" in the Sagas denotes a Cathedral Church.]

[Footnote 21: _O.S._, 37. See _Chronicles of the Picts and Scots_ (Skene), p. 78.]

[Footnote 22: _O.S._, 13-39.]

[Footnote 23: Pope, _Torf._ (Trans.), p. 62 note. See _Genealogie of the Earles_, p. 135.]

CHAPTER V.

[Footnote 1: _Short Magnus Saga_, I. _O.S._, 37.]

[Footnote 2: _O.S._, 38.]

[Footnote 3: See _Orkney and Shetland Folk_ (Viking Society, 1914), A.W. Johnston's note, p. 35. See Dunbar's _Scottish Kings_, p. 7.]

[Footnote 4: See _Dalrymple's Collections_ (1705), p. 153 for the date of Malcolm's marriage with St. Margaret, p. 157, where he puts the marriage in 1070, after three years' courts.h.i.+p. See also pp. 163 and 164. Sir Archibald Dunbar puts Ingibjorg's marriage in 1059, as stated above, and if Thorfinn was an Earl from his birth in 1008, he would have been 50 years earl in 1058. As a king's grandson he might well have been an earl from his birth.]

[Footnote 5: Rolls Edition _O.S._, p. 45, c. 30. She must have died before 1068 when Malcolm Canmore married Margaret, daughter of Edward Atheling, sister of Edgar Atheling. Dunbar, _Scottish Kings_, p.

27. Was Ingibjorg's marriage within the prohibited degrees, and so dissolved? See also Henderson, _Norse Influence, &c._, p. 25-26, which is not correct. Earl Orm married Sigrid, d. of Finn Arneson not Ingibjorg. See Table ix, _Saga Library_, vol. 6, Earls of Ladir, and Table xi.]

[Footnote 6: The _O.S._ mentions only Duncan. The other sons seem doubtful. But see Dunbar, _Scottish Kings_, p. 31 and notes, and p.

38.]