[Footnote 20:  F.B., ch. 183, 184.]

[Footnote 21:  Tudor, Orkney and Shetland, p. 336.]

[Footnote 22:  Torf.  Orc., p. 25, “facile de alieno largientis.”]

[Footnote 23:  F.B., 115. O.P., 783. F.B., 186. O.S., 10, 11. O.S., 8.  Skene, Celtic Scotland, i, 374-9.]

[Footnote 24:  Dalrymple, Collections, p. 99.]

[Footnote 25:  Viking Society, Orkney and Shetland Folk, 1914, p. 5.]

[Footnote 26:  O.P., (Canisbay), vol. ii, 794, 816.]

[Footnote 27:  O.S., 11.]

[Footnote 28:  B.N., c. 85.]

[Footnote 29:  O.S., 12. F.B., 187.  The F.B. makes the scene of this battle Skitten Moor.]

[Footnote 30:  F.B., 187.]

[Footnote 31:  Thorgisl, I, 4. (Orig.  Islandicae, ii, p. 635.) In The Old Statistical Account (Tongue) there is a tradition of such a fight on Eilean nan Gall at the entrance to the Bay of Tongue, then in Caithness.]

[Footnote 32:  p. 23.]

[Footnote 33:  See Sir Wm. Fraser’s Book of Sutherland, and Pedigree in Appendix.  There is a Craig Amlaiph (Olaf) above Torboll and Cambusmore (both in Cat) near the Mound in Sudrland.  There were no Thanes of the De Moravia line in Sutherland.]

[Footnote 34:  See The Pictish Nation and Church, pp. 129-32, and 341.]

[Footnote 35:  See Darratha-liod, published by the Viking Club, 1910.]

[Footnote 36:  Burnt Njal, c. 151.]

[Footnote 37:  Iceland accepted Christianity by a vote of its Thing in 1000 A.D.  “Blood” often fell in Iceland; after a volcanic eruption, rain was tinged with red.]

[Footnote 38:  Tudor, O. and S., p. 20.]

[Footnote 39:  Rods used for dividing and pressing downwards.]

[Footnote 40:  See Scandinavian Britain (Collingwood), p. 256-7, where Mr. Gilbert Goudie’s Antiquities of Shetland is referred to.]

CHAPTER IV.

[Footnote 1:  Reg.  Morav., p. xxiv, and Charter No. 264, p. 342.]

[Footnote 2:  Dunbar, Scottish Kings, pp. 4-7.]

[Footnote 3:  Some authorities hold that Macbeth was the son of a sister of Malcolm.  His property was probably in Ross and Cromarty.  See also Rhys’ Celtic Britain, p. 196.]

[Footnote 4:  Skuli was first Earl of Caithness, which then included Sutherland, see ante, but he was Norse.]

[Footnote 5:  O.S., 16.]

[Footnote 6:  Trithing—­the same word as Riding in Yorkshire, one-third.  See Scot.  Hist.  Review, Oct. 1918.  J. Storer Clouston.  Ulfreksfirth is Larne Bay.]

[Footnote 7:  O.S., 17, 18.]

[Footnote 8:  O.S., 20, 21, and St. Olaf’s Saga, cix.]