Cait, or Cat, Pictish province of, (now Caithness and Sutherland, q.v.),
      in three parts, (1) Ness, (2) Strathnavern, and (3) Sudrland;
    description of land;
    unsuitable for trees in Ness;
    west uninhabited in Viking times;
    deer, etc., abounded;
    Athelstan’s naval demonstration;
    held by earls of Orkney;
    Duncan the maormor;
    Picts and Norse;
    map;
    Pictish clergy driven from north-east by Norse;
    land and people on arrival of Norse.

  Cat, maormors of;
    Duncan, or Dungall;
    Moldan or Moddan.

  Caithness (Ness), part of the ancient province of Cat, q.v.;
    Norse occupied fertile parts;
    ancient monuments;
    writing;
    Orkneyinga Saga only record before 12th cent.;
    earlier notices and later records;
    earldom claimed by Sigurd Hlodverson;
    Skuli Thorfinnson cr. earl;
    C. people in Iceland;
    sea battle between Ulf and Helgi;
    Moddan, earl of C.;
    his expedition to;
    Norse earls;
    Thorfinn returns to, after Scottish conquests;
    “king of Catanesse,” in “William the Wanderer”;
    St. Magnus;
    seized by earl Hakon;
    earl Magnus favoured in;
    earldom conferred on Ragnvald Gudrodson;
    much of owned by Moddan’s family;
    Norse steadily lost hold on C.;
    Norse driven outward and eastward;
    bishopric founded;
    bishop Andrew;
    Norse earls;
    family of Freskyn de Moravia;
    earldom of David I;
    robberies by Sweyn;
    Malcolm IV granted half earldom to Erlend Haraldson;
    red deer and reindeer hunting;
    rebellions;
    bishop’s litigation with earls of Sutherland;
    Innes family;
    earldom held of Scottish crown;
    diocese and cathedral;
    bishop Andrew;
    first conquest by King William;
    subdued by King William;
    earl Ragnvald’s half conferred on Harald Ungi;
    earl Harold slew earl Harald Ungi;
    Caithness given to Ragnvald Gudrodson;
    who defeated earl Harold at Dalharrold;
    Ragnvald’s stewards left in charge, their fate;
    the lawman;
    Ragnvald bought earldom;
    extent of earl Harold’s earldom;
    Scottish policy in the north;
    old Norse earldom broken up;
    services of Freskyn family;
    extent of earldom of earl David;
    the burning of bishop Adam;
    thingstead and lawman;
    the earldom;
    succession to earldom;
    subjected by king Alexr.  II, 1222;
    king Hakon’s fine;
    escaped attack by Hakon;
    Scottish subjection of Norse;
    Norse adopted Gaelic;
    Norse place-names;
    Norse type still in evidence;
    Normans, Cheynes, Oliphants and St. Clairs;
    inheritance of Erlend lands by Normans;
    inhabitants a blend of Gael and Norse.