Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 243 pages of information about Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time.

Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 243 pages of information about Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time.

  Christ Church, Norse name for a cathedral.

  Christ Church, Bergen;
    king Hakon buried.

  Christ’s Kirk, Birsay;
    burial of St. Magnus.

  Christian I, king of Norway;
    mortgaged Orkney and Shetland to Scotland.

  Christiania Fjord, or the Vik.

  Church;
  Pictish, Columban and Catholic;
  Norse influence.

  Clairdon, near Thurso;
    earl Harald Ungi defeated;
    where Lifolf Baldpate fell.

  Clibreck (Clibr’), part of Johanna’s estate.

  Clon, in Ross, granted by earl of Ross to Walter de Moravia.

  Clontarf, the battle of.

  Clouston, J. Storer;
    A Branch of the Family;
    Orkney trithing.

  Clyne.

  Cobbie Row, ruins of the castle of Kolbein Hruga, in Wyre.

  Coire, Loch;
    lands probably held by Moddan family.

  Coire-na-fearn, (Cornefern) Strathnavern;
    part of Johanna’s estate.

  Collingwood, W.G., on Thorfinn as “king of Catanesse.”;
    see Scandinavian Britain, transl. William the Wanderer.

  Columba, St.;
    Adamnan’s Life of;
    mission to Picts, settlement in Iona;
    clergy removed to Dunkeld;
    relics removed;
    patron saint of Scot and Pict;
    his cult and culture destroyed by Norse.

  Columban settlements of hermits and missionaries;
    Columban church;
    replaced by Catholic.

  Columbus;
    discovered America long after Norsemen.

  Comyn, Alexr.;
    see Buchan, earl of.

  Comyn, John, m.  Matilda heiress of Malcolm, earl of Angus.

  Comyn, Walter;
    earl of Menteith.

  Constantine I;
    viking raids.

  Constantine II;
    Norse seize C. and S.

  Constantine III;
    Danish attacks.

  Constantinople (Micklegarth).

  Coracles, Pictish boats.

  Cortachy, advowson of.

  Craig Carrill Broch;
    Roman tablets found.

  Crakaig, crooked bay, now drained.

  Creich, owned by Hugo Freskyn;
    including Assynt;
    granted by Hugo Freskyn to Gilbert while archdeacon of Moray.

  Crinan, Abthane of Dunkeld, m.  Bethoc, dau. of Malcolm II.

  Croc Skardie;
    (?) Sigurd’s Howe.

  Cromarty;
    northern Suter of;
    Norse place-names;
    Macbeth’s property.

  Cruithne and his seven sons.

  Curle, A.O.;
    early monuments of Caith. and Sutherland.

  Cyderhall, see Sigurd’s Howe.

  Dale, Dalar or Dalr, C.;
    earl Skuli slain;
    home of Moddan.

  Dalharrold, on River Naver;
    belonged to Johanna.

  Dalriadic kingdom.

  Dalrymple’s Collections, on divorce;
    on earl Magnus II.

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