Part 11 (1/2)
[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 Yorks.h.i.+re, 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.]
[Footnote 9: _O.S._, 22.]
[Footnote 10: _O.S._, 22. See _Corpus Poetic.u.m Boreale_, vol. ii, pp.