Damsey;
    earl Erlend killed.

  Danes;
    Irish Danes.

  Darratha-Liod.

  Dasent, Sir G.W.;
    transl. Orkneyinga Saga, q.v.;
    Oxford Essays, q.v.;
    Saga of Burnt Njal, q.v.

  David I, king of Scotland;
    church organisation;
    earldom of Caithness held of him;
    his tutor John, bishop of Glasgow;
    visited by Sweyn Asleifarson;
    introduced feudal barons and charters;
    at Duffus Castle;
    by education a Norman knight.

  David II.

  David Haraldson, earl of Orkney and Caith.;
    did not have earl Ragnvald’s share of Caith. earldom;
    succeeded to a reduced territory;
    sole earl of Orkney;
    joint earl with earl John;
    death.

  Dawey (Dalvey).

  Death in bed, a reproach among Norse.

  Deer;
    earls Ragnvald and Harald hunted red deer and reindeer in
      Caithness;
    red deer abounded in Cat.

  Deerness, Mull of;
    sea-fight between Thorfinn and Duncan I;
    king Hakon’s fleet passed.

  Deerstalking, days of, Scrope.

  De Moravia, see under Freskyn.

  Dingwall;
    southern limit of Norse.

  Dirlot, or Dilred, in Strathmore, C.

  Dolfin, son of Maldred.

  Dollar;
    Scots defeated by Danes.

  Donada, dau. of Malcolm II, m.  Finnleac.

  Donald, supposed son of Malcolm III.

  Donald Bane, claimant to Scottish crown.

  Donald Ban MacWilliam;
    claimant of Scottish crown;
    his son Guthred slain;
    descended from Ingibjorg, widow of Thorfinn and Malcolm Canmore.

  Dornoch (Durnach);
    supposed dedication of Cathedral;
    monks to be protected;
    owned by Hugo Freskyn;
    in earldom of Caithness;
    cathedral of St. Barr;
    excluded from earldom of earl David;
    part granted by Hugo Freskyn to Gilbert;
    Embo near D., Norse defeated;
    existed in Norse times;
    Durnach;
    cathedral lands;
    bishop Adam buried in;
    traditional origin of name.

  Dornock, Dumfriesshire, deriv.

  Dorruthar.

  Dougal of the Isles, in Orkney;
    joined Hakon’s expedition.

  Douglas, family of.

  Dovyr, tofftys de;
    part of Johanna’s estate;
    from Gael. for water, identified as River and Loch Naver.

  Draughts;
    played by St. Ragnvald.

  Dublin;
    Sweyn killed at.

  Dufeyra.

  Duffus;
    near Burghead or Turfness;
    castle built by Freskyn de Moravia;
    estates owned by Hugo Freskyn;
    Freskyn, lord of;
    estate succeeded to by Walter Freskyn;
    church;
    William MacFrisgyn second lord of;
    chapel of St. Lawrence;
    Freskyn’s fortress checked Norse raids;
    king David’s visit;
    rector of St. Peter’s.