Maor and maormor, Pictish rulers.

  Margaret, St.;
    2nd wife of king Malcolm Canmore.

  Margaret’s Hope, St.;
    Orkney.

  Margret, earl Hakon’s dau.;
    brought up by Frakark in Kildonan;
    m.  Maddad, earl of Athole;
    visited by Sweyn;
    received her brother earl Paul, his fate;
    returned to Orkney, had a child by Gunni, Sweyn’s brother;
    eloped with Erlend the Young;
    contemporary of Freskyn I;
    younger sister of Ingibiorg.

  Margret, dau. of earl Harold Maddadson and Afreka.

  Matilda, countess of Angus; heiress of Malcolm, earl of A.,
    m. (1) John Comyn;
    m. (2) Gilbert d’Umphraville, earl of A.

  Matilda, dau. of Gibbon, earl of Orkney and Caithness, m.  Malise,
    earl of Stratherne.

  Matilda.

  Mearns;
    why no brochs?;
    Cirig, for Magh-Circinn, or, Mearns, a Pictish province.

  Melrose, Chronicle of;

  Melsnati.

  Menteith;
    Fortrenn, a Pictish province.

  Michel, Francisque;
    Chroniques Anglo-Normandes.

  Minch, the,
    or Skotlands-fiorthr.

  Missel (probably Frisel or Fraser), in embassy to Norway.

  Moddan, earl of C.;
    parentage;
    sister’s son of Duncan I;
    at North Berwick;
    slain by Thorkel Fostri;
    his family in Caithness.

  Moddan, in Dale, and family;
    possible son of earl Moddan;
    the clan and family;
    held the hills and upper parts of valleys;
    family and Pictish clansmen;
    family plots;
    clan harried by Sweyn;
    his daughters and estates;
    dau.  Helga;
    Eric Stagbrellir’s children sole heirs;
    family lands;
    Harald Ungi’s title to Moddan lands;
    Gunni, Ragnhild’s husband, became chief of M. clan;
    estates left to earl Erlend Haraldson, then went to Eric Stagbrellir;
    Snaekoll Gunni’s son next heir to estates;
    Johanna inherited Moddan lands;
    estates passed to Norman families.

  Moldan, (see Moddan), of Duncansby;
  kinsman of Scots king;
  connection with Moddan family.

  Monuments of C. and S., early.

  Moravia, family, de;
    see Freskin.

  Moraviensis, Registrum Episcopatus.

  Moray, province of;
    Pictish province of Fidach including Ross;
    northern limit of Roman penetration;
    no brochs;
    Norse influence;
    last Pictish province subdued by Scots;
    wars between kings of Alban and the Norsemen in;
    Pictish clergy driven from seaboard by Norse;
    Norse driven from laigh of M.;
    taken from Norse;
    Norse defeated at Mortlach;
    ravaged by earl Thorfinn Sigurdson;
    bishopric founded;
    estate of Freskyn de Moravia;