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.

[Footnote 28:  See Viking Club’s Year Book, iv, 1911-12, notes pp. 18-20.]

[Footnote 29:  O.S. III.  This may be a translation of Loch Glendhu.]

[Footnote 30:  F.B., Addenda to O.S., trans.  Dasent, Rolls edit.]

[Footnote 31:  Charter of St. Gilbert’s Cathedral. Sutherland Book, vol. iii, p. 3, No. 4. Robertson’s Index, p. 16. Reg.  Dunfermelyn, 7.  See O.P. ii, p. 598. Dalrymple’s Collections, p. 248.]

[Footnote 32:  Sverri’s Saga (Sephton, pp. 114 to 117), c. 90-93.]

[Footnote 33:  O.P., 11, ii, pp. 598 and 735. Lib.  Eccles. de Scon, p. 37, No. 58.  Viking Club, Caithness and Sutherland Records, p. 2. (Chron.  Mailros), Lawrie’s Annals, p. 257.  A penny per house for Peter’s Pence was paid in his lifetime, Viking Club Records, p. 3, 4; O.P. says (p. 598) before 1181.]

[Footnote 34:  The Sutherland Book quotes this opinion, vol. 1, p. 9, and Lord Hailes had special knowledge, see Annals of Scotland (Hailes), vol. 1, p. 148, anno 1222.]

[Footnote 35:  O.P.  Preface, p. xxi, and pp. 458 and 529; and 413-4.]

[Footnote 36:  Scottish Kings, Dunbar, p, 80.]

[Footnote 37:  Lib.  Pluscard, xxxvi, 1197-8. Chron.  Mailros, 1197.]

[Footnote 38:  If it were true, as his son Hakon had died in 1171, it would prove the death of Henry of Ross, Harold’s eldest son by his first marriage, before 1196.  The grandsons would be sons of Harold’s daughter.]

[Footnote 39:  O.S. (Dasent trans.), p. 225. Torfaeus Orcades, i, c. 38.]

[Footnote 40:  O.S. (Rolls Ed.), pp. 226-231.  It was nearer, and close to Thurso.]

[Footnote 41:  See Hoveden Chron., vol. iv, pp. 10-12, and Scottish Annals from English Chroniclers, pp. 316-8. (Alan O. Anderson.)]

[Footnote 42:  O.P. ii, 803.]

[Footnote 43:  Dalharrold afterwards belonged to Johanna of Strathnaver. Reg.  Morav., p. 139, No. 126.  Pope, Torfaeus, trans., Note p. 169.  This battle is also said to have been fought by William the Lion himself, not by Reginald Gudrodson.]

[Footnote 44:  Only three are named, but six are afterwards referred to.  For Pope Innocent’s letter see O. and S. Records, vol. 1, p. 25.]

[Footnote 45:  O.S., Dasent, Rolls edit., pp. 228-30.  It is not clear that the bishop lived till 1213.  See Two Ancient Records of the Bishopric, Bannatyne Club, pp. 6 and 7.]

[Footnote 46:  He was there when Bishop Adam was murdered in that year.]

[Footnote 47:  This is a very large number and hardly credible.  It was not 6000.  Can Eystein be the Island Stone, the Man of the Ord?]

[Footnote 48:  Bain, Calendar of Documents, Nos. 321 and 324.]

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