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.
to him as son of a sister of earl
      Harald Ungi;
    neither he nor wife claimed any part of Strathnaver lands;
    Sutherland excluded from earldom;
    Erlend line excluded from Orkney since Ragnvald’s death (excepting
      Harald Ungi);
    earl of Orkney;
    Caith. lands of the Angus line of earls;
    death, successor.

  Magnus III, Gibbonson, earl of Orkney and Caithness;
    extent of his estate in Caithness;
    in Bergen with king Hakon (1263);
    his position as earl of C.;
    stayed behind under orders to follow Hakon;
    deserted him;
    reconciled to Alexander III and to king of Norway.

  Magnus, son of Havard Gunni’s son.

  Magnus’ Cathedral, St., Kirkwall;
    relics of saint were removed to;
    erected by St. Ragnvald;
    king Hakon temporarily buried in;
    built by Norse.

  Magnus Saga, St.

  Magnus Saga the Longer.

  Magnus Saga the Short.

  Magnus Hakonson Saga.

  Magnus, Spittal of St., near Halkirk.

  Magnusson, Eirikr;
    transl. of Darratha-liod.

  Maiming, made a Northman impossible.

  Mainland, Orkney;
    Thorfinn’s Hall;
    meeting between earls Hakon and Magnus.

  Malbrigde of the buck-tooth.

  Malcolm I, (954).

  Malcolm II, king of Scotland;
    dau. m.  Sigurd Hlodverson;
    kingdom of Scotland produced;
    contemporary records begin;
    defeated Norse at Mortlach;
    his daughters;
    Macbeth also supposed son of his sister;
    policy in Caith. and Orkney;
    death;
    kinsman, Moldan, maormor of Caith.;
    his dream of a consolidated kingdom realised.

  Malcolm III, Canmore, king of Scotland;
    m.  Ingibjorg, Thorfinn’s widow;
    m. 2nd, St. Margaret, introduced Saxon nobility;
    his son Duncan II, whose descendant was Donald Ban MacWilliam.

  Malcolm IV,
    granted half earldom of Caithness to Erlend Haraldson;
    defeated Somarled;
    his death.

  Malcolm, supposed son of Malcolm III.

  Malcolm, earl of Caithness and Angus;
    earl of Caith. (1232-36);
    earl of C. as guardian of a minor, as trustee or custos;
    his dau. heiress, and successors.

  Maldred, of Cumbria.

  Malise, earl of Stratherne;
    m.  Matilda, dau. of Gibbon, earl.

  Malise II, earl of Orkney and Caithness;
    heir of Matilda, dau. of earl Gibbon;
    conveyed Berridale, to Reginald More, and Reginald Chen III;
    descendant of the lines of Paul and Erlend.

  Mallard River;
    see Ardovyr,
    deriv.

  Mamgarvie, near Inverness.

  Man;
    Sweyn’s annual raids;
    earl Harold Maddadson in;
    Ragnvald Gudrodson, king of;
    returned to Man;
    king Magnus of M. joined Hakon’s expedition;
    conquered by Alexander III after Largs;
    incorporated in Scotland.

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