[Footnote 28:  See Pedigree in Appendix. Reg.  Morav., c. 99, p. 114.  Freskyn I was his attavus, or great-great-grandfather.]

[Footnote 29:  Reg.  Morav. p. 139, ch. 126.]

CHAPTER VI.

[Footnote 1:  O.S., 57, 58.]

[Footnote 2:  O.S., 56, 57.]

[Footnote 3:  O.S., 58.]

[Footnote 4:  O.S., 58.]

[Footnote 5:  Pope, Torfaeus (trans.), note p. 133.]

[Footnote 6:  Can she have inhabited the Broch at Feranach, which had six chambers in the thickness of the wall, (Curle’s Inventory, No. 314), or is the site of her homestead (probably of wood) now undiscoverable?  She was burnt in her homestead, not in her residence.  The Saga account points to a site on the west bank of the river.]

[Footnote 7:  O.S., 58.]

[Footnote 8:  O.S., 59.]

[Footnote 9:  O.S., 61, 62, 63, 65, c.f. the modern phrase “a young hopeful.”]

[Footnote 10:  O.S., 66.]

[Footnote 11:  O.S., 68.]

[Footnote 12:  O.S., 69, 70, 71, 72, 73-80.]

[Footnote 13:  See Tudor, Orkney and Shetland, pp. 35 and 375.]

[Footnote 14:  See note to Hjaltalin and Goudie O.S., p. 107, where Atjokl’s-bakki is suggested as an emendation, and also p. 115.]

[Footnote 15:  Maiming made a Northman impossible.]

[Footnote 16:  O.S., 81.]

[Footnote 17:  O.S., 81.]

[Footnote 18:  O.S., 82.]

[Footnote 19:  Guides would be easily got from Elgin.  For the MacHeths, constantly fled to the wilds of Cat for refuge, before, in 1210 or later, they settled there, getting land in Durness after 1263.]

[Footnote 20:  i.e.  The Minch.  It is said that he was the ancestor of the Macaulays of the Lewis, but Macaulay means son of Olaf, not of Olvir.]

[Footnote 21:  O.S., 88.  Earl Waltheof must have been a neighbour of Freskyn in Moray.]

[Footnote 22:  O.S., 86.]

[Footnote 23:  O.S., 89.  Ragnvald’s verses are collected in Corpus Poet Boreale, vol. ii, pp. 276-7.  See Tudor, O. and S. p., 471.]

[Footnote 24:  Whence the English expression “bound” for a destination by sea, i.e. “equipped,” which is also a Norse word which has nothing to do with the Latin “equus” a horse.]

[Footnote 25:  O.S., 91.  Bilbao=the sea-borg on the River Nervion, not Narbonne, see Rolls Ed., p. 163, note, and Introduction, p. lix.]

[Footnote 26:  O.S., 89-99.]

[Footnote 27:  O.S., 99 and 100.]

[Footnote 28:  He was grandson of Hacon Paulson, a grandson of Thorfinn, and he was also a grandson of Helga, Moddan’s daughter.]

[Footnote 29:  O.S., 100.]