Chapter II
1
See MacBain’s note at p. 157 of Skene’s Highlanders of Scotland.
2
For the boundaries of Sutherland, see Sir R. Gordon’s Genealogie of the Earles, pp. i and 2, and map hereto.
4
Scrope, Days of Deerstalking, 3rd edit., pp. 374-377.
5
Curie’s Inventories of Monuments, &c., 1911 (Caithness) 1911 (Sutherland), and see his maps. Why are there no brochs in Moray, Aberdeenshire and the Mearns? Did the Picts come there from the west and south-west coast after the age of broch-building, driven before the Scots, first eastward, then north into the Grampians?
6
For example in Loch Naver.
7
Anderson’s Scotland in Pagan Times, pp. 174-259.
8
See Munro’s Prehistoric Scotland, p. 356.
9
Often spelt Mormaor. See Ritson, Annals of the Caledonians, pp. 62-3.
22
See Scotland in Early Christian Times (Anderson), pp. 141-2.
11
Despite The Pictish Nation, pp. 69 and 401. But see Skene, Chron. Picts and Scots (Annals of Tighernac) p. 75, where 150 Pictish ships are said to have been wrecked in 729 A.D.
12
See Du Chaillu, The Viking Age, vol. ii. pp. 65-101.
13
Worsaae, The Prehistory of the North, pp. 184-7. Scandinavian Britain, pp. 34-42.
14
Viking Society’s Orkney and Shetland Folk, 1914.
15
Robertson, Early Kings, vol. i, p. 105, and ii, p. 469.
16
Dun-bretan, or the fort of the Britons; Alcluyd, the rock of the Clyde.
Notes
3 In Ness the subjacent stone is too near the surface to have ever admitted of the growth of large trees.