[Footnote 3:  Hume Brown, History, ante.]

[Footnote 4:  Scandinavian Britain, p. 35.]

[Footnote 5:  See Norse Influence on Celtic Scotland (Henderson), passim; and Sutherland and the Reay Country, (Rev. Adam Gunn), chapter on “Language,” p. 172.]

[Footnote 6:  Viking Club, Old Lore Miscell., vol. ii, 213; vol. iii, 14, 182, 234.]

[Footnote 7:  See Burnt Njal, (Dasent) for a plan and elevation of a Skali.  Skelpick may be Skaill-beg, or Little Hall.]

[Footnote 8:  Ruins of Saga-time (in Iceland) by Thorsteinn Erlingson, David Nutt (1899).]

[Footnote 9:  See his Essay with plans in the Saga Book of the Viking Club, vol. iii, pp. 174-216.]

[Footnote 10:  i.e.  Broadfield; see O.S., Rolls edition, p. 232, formerly Brathwell.]

[Footnote 11:  Mousa in Shetland was twice so used, by two honeymoon pairs.  See Tudor, O. and S., p. 481.]

[Footnote 12:  O.P., vol. ii, 758.]

[Footnote 13:  O.S., 84, 100 and 22; 58, 78, 100, 101, 102, 113, and pp. 226, 227, 228, in Rolls edition.  Hjalmundal is the strath, not the village of Helmsdale.]

[Footnote 14:  We find in Latheron in Caithness “Golsary” the shieling of Gol.  Platagall, see O.P., ii, p. 680.]

[Footnote 15:  The bodily form often follows that of fathers of a fair race, it is said.]

[Footnote 16:  See p. 21.]

[Footnote 17:  Frontispiece to vol. 1 of Du Chaillu’s Viking Age.]

[Footnote 18:  See Scotland in Early Christian Times, Dr. Joseph Anderson’s Rhind Lectures in 1879, pp. 141-2; Scandinavian Britain, p. 29.]

[Footnote 19:  Saga of Erik the Red and St. Olaf’s Saga.  See Orig.  Islandicae, vol. ii, Bk. v, pp. 588-756 “Explorers.”]

[Footnote 20:  Yet see the Romance of Guillaume le Roi, Chroniques Anglo-Normandes, vol. iii, Francisque Michel.]

[Footnote 21:  As witness the Seaforths (Sae-fjorthr) of the 51st Division in France.]

[Footnote 22:  Vol. 1, p. 45.  See also Burton’s History of Scotland, vol. i, chapter xi, and vol. ii, pp. 14 and 15.]

APPENDIX.

EARLY PEDIGREE OF THE FRESKYNS.

FRESKYN I

of Strabrock and Duffus, b. about 1100, was granted Duffus about 1130;
entertained David I in 1150 there; died between 1166 and 1171.
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(1)William MacFrisgyn, Grantee of (2)Hugo Fresechin witnessed the Strabrock, Duffus, &c., “quas Charter of Lohworuora Church terras pater suus Friskin tenuit (Borthwick) to Herbert, Bishop tempore regis David,” 1165-1171. of Glasgow before 1152, (Hug.  Witnessed