[Footnote 49:  O.S., Rolls edit., p. 230.]

[Footnote 50:  Sverri Saga, 118, 119, 125.]

[Footnote 51:  Lord Hailes’ Addional Case of Elizabeth, claimant of the Earldom of Sutherland, p. 8, and see Robertson, Early Kings, vol. ii, p. 446; App.  N. esp. p. 494.]

[Footnote 52:  One of the Gordons of Garty in Sutherland.]

CHAPTER VIII.

[Footnote 1:  See Peter Clauson Undal’s Translation of the lost Inga Saga, O.S., Dasent’s trans., Rolls ed., pp. 234-6, from which David and John appear as joint earls in Orkney and Shetland also, on payment of a large sum, only after King Sverri’s death.]

[Footnote 2:  O.S., Rolls edit., p. 231.]

[Footnote 3:  Scotichronicon, VIII, clxxvi.]

[Footnote 4:  Fordun Gesta Annal., xxviii, Lawrie Annals, p. 397, “circa festum S. Petri ad vincula”, i.e., Augt. 1. 1214.  There is no evidence whatever that her name was Matilda.]

[Footnote 5:  Chron.  Mailros, p. 114; Lawrie, p. 395.]

[Footnote 6:  Hakon Saga, c. 20.]

[Footnote 7:  Do. c. 45.]

[Footnote 8:  Flatey Book; Rolls edit., O.S. p. 232. Breithivellir means Broadfield.]

[Footnote 9:  At Skinnet first; then, in 1239, at Dornoch even more worthily and in state.]

[Footnote 10:  Flatey Book; Rolls edit. O.S., p. 232.]

[Footnote 11:  Province of Cat, p. 73; see Wyntoun Chron., vii, c. 9.]

[Footnote 12:  See Robertson’s Index, p. xxv.]

[Footnote 13:  See Scottish Annals from English Chroniclers, Alan O. Anderson, pp. 336-7, where the Chronicle of Melrose, 139, (1222) is quoted, Lib.  Pluscard, vii, 9.]

[Footnote 14:  Wyntoun Chron. vii, c. 9.]

[Footnote 15:  Hakon Saga, c. 86.]

[Footnote 16:  Do. c. 101.  The Iceland Annals prove Harald’s drowning.]

[Footnote 17:  Hakon Saga, c. 162, 165 and 167.]

[Footnote 18:  Snaekollr means Snowball.  Being largely of Norse blood, he was probably a fair Viking.]

[Footnote 19:  Hakon Saga, 169.]

[Footnote 20:  See Tudor’s Orkney and Shetland, p. 344 and p. 53, and Hakon Saga, 169-171.]

[Footnote 21:  Hakon Saga, 173.]

[Footnote 22:  Not gydinga.  Flatey Book, iii, p. 528; Torf.  Orc., ii, p. 163.]

[Footnote 23:  Pope, Torfaeus (trans.), p. 184, note.]

[Footnote 24:  No. 126.]

CHAPTER IX.

[Footnote 1:  One daughter married Olaf, who was killed at Floruvagr in battle in 1194, see O.S., Rolls edit., pp. 230-1 (trans.) Dasent.]

[Footnote 2:  Notably in Paul’s Scottish Peerage sub Angus and Caithness.]