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.
    intermarriage with Celts;
    influence of, on British law;
    religion of early settlers in British Isles;
    destroyed culture of St. Columba;
    enslaved aborigines in their colonies;
    their place-names in Scotland;
    settled on coasts and lower valleys;
    subdued by Scots in north;
    Gaelic language adopted by;
    few monuments in Scotland;
    domestic and ecclesiastical buildings of wood or stone;
    York Powell on;
    discovery of America, and Africa.

  Norse Influence on Celtic Scotland, (George Henderson).

  Northman and Pict.

  Norway;
    viking raids on British Isles;
    trade with Grimsby;
    earl Ragnvald visited king Ingi;
    earl Ragnvald returned from Jerusalem through Norway;
    Margaret, queen of N.;
    Scottish embassy to;
    Hebrides ceded to Scotland.

  Norway, kings of;
    Harald Harfagr, (860-933);
    Eric Bloody-axe, (930-935);
    Olaf Tryggvi’s son, (995-1000);
    Magnus the Good, (1035-1047);
    Harald Sigurdson Hardrada, (1045-1066);
    Olaf Haraldson, (1067-1093);
    Magnus Barelegs, (1093-1103);
    Sigurd Magnusson, (1103-1130);
    Magnus the Blind, (1130-1135);
    Harald Gilli, (1130-1136);
    Eystein Haraldson, (1142-1157);
    Ingi, (1136-1161);
    Magnus Erlingson, (1162-1184);
    Sverrir, (1184-1202);
    Hakon, Sverri’s son, (1202-1204);
    Hakon Hakonson, (1217-1263);
    Magnus Hakonson, (1263-1280);
    Christian I, (1459-1481), q.v.

  Norway, History of, P.A.  Munch.

  Ochill, (Oykel).

  Odal lands;
    in Orkney;
    none in Cat.

  Odin;
    blood-eagle rite;
    worshipped by Norse in Britain;
    Sigurd Hlodverson died fighting for;
    and defeated at Clontarf.

  Olaf, king of Norway;
    received Thorfinn Sigurdson, earl of Orkney and Caithness;
    and Thorkel Fostri;
    his award;
    killed at Stiklastad.

  Olaf’s Saga, St.;
    account of earls of Orkney.

  Olaf Haraldson Kyrre, king of Norway.

  Olaf Tryggvi’s-son;
    conversion of Sigurd Hlodverson.

  Olaf Tryggvason Saga;
    account of earls of Orkney.

  Olaf Bitling, king of the Sudreys;
    m.  Ingibiorg, daughter of earl Hakon.

  Olaf the White, king of Dublin;
    invasion of Scotland.

  Olaf, king of Man.

  Olaf Hrolfson, father of Sweyn and Gunni.

  Olaf, son-in-law of earl Harold Maddadson.

  Old-Lore Miscellany (Viking Society);
    Darratha-liod;
    authorship O.S.;
    Orkney and Shetland Folk.

  Old-shore (Asleifarvik).

  Oliphant family;
    charters, earldom of Caithness.

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