Elin, dau. of Eric Stagbrellir;
    at home near Loch Naver;
    she, or sister, m.  Gilchrist, earl of Angus, and was mother of
      Magnus II, earl of Caithness.

  Elk;
    abounded in Cat;
    horns found.

  Ellarholm.

  Ellwick (Ellidarvik).

  Embo, near Dornoch;
    Norse defeated and their “prince” slain, to whom the Ri-Crois erected.

  Erde-houses, of Pictish times.

  Erg (Gaelic, airigh), a sheiling, Norse, setr;
    pl. ergin, sheilings, in Asgrim’s Ergin.

  Eric bloody-axe.

  Erik the Red, Saga of.

  Eric Stagbrellir, son of Audhild, brought up in Kildonan by Frakark;
    sole male survivor of Moddan line;
    m.  Ingigerd, dau. of earl St. Ragnvald, united the Erlend and Moddan
      estates;
    tried to reconcile earls Ragnvald and Harold;
    probably got earl Ottar’s lands on the death of earl Erlend;
    viking raid to Hebrides and Scilly Isles;
    his son Harald Ungi made earl of Orkney and Caithness (excluding
      Sutherland);
    his son, Ragnvald;
    line represented by Snaekoll Gunni’s son.

  Eric Streita;
    husband of Audhild, dau. of Thorleif.

  Erlend Haraldson, earl of Orkney and Caith.;
    heir of earl Ottar;
    granted half earldom of Caith.;
    granted half earldom of Orkney;
    supported by Sweyn;
    in Shetland;
    slain;
    last of male line of Thorfinn Sigurdson;
    nearest heir, Ragnvald Gudrodson, king of Man;
    grandson of Hakon Paulson;
    not Erlend Ungi.

  Erlend Torf-Einarson, earl;
    slain in England.

  Erlend Thorfinnson;
    joint earl of Orkney and Caith. with his brother Paul;
    at battle of Stamford Bridge;
    banished to Norway where he died;
    his descendants;
    his line of heirs;
    Scottish policy as to succession;
    Snaekoll Gunni’s son, chief of line;
    Skene’s theory;
    the converse theory that Magnus of Angus m. the nameless dau. of earl
      John, through whom he got the title, and Paul’s lands;
    his share of earldom of Caithness;
    inherited by Johanna of Strathnaver;
    his line (excepting Harald Ungi) excluded from Orkney during rule
      of earl Harold, David and John;
    succession to Erlend lands in C.

  Erlend Ungi;
    eloped with Margret, mother of earl Harold Maddadson, to Mousa Broch;
    reconciled to earl Harold, with whom he went to Norway;
    not earl Erlend.

  Erling Erlendson;
    in Norwegian expedition to Wales;
    probably killed in Ireland.

  Erling Ivar’s son;
    in Hakon’s expedition;
    in raid on Dyrnes.

  Erlingson, Thorsteinn;
    Ruins of Saga-time in Iceland, (Viking Society, extra series).

  Ermengarde, queen.