Chapter III
1
H.B., vol. i, p. 22.
2
Chron. Hunt. Skene, Chron. Picts and Scots, p. 209.
3
See also Rhys, Celtic Britain, p. 198.
4
Flatey Book, vol. i, ch. 218.
5
H.B., vol. i, p. 27.
6
Haroldswick in Unst is said to have been called after King Harald. Tudor, O. and S., p. 570.
The late Dr. Joass had identified the site of the burial mound. It is said to be Croc Skardie on the S.E. bank of the River Evelix, near Sidera. Skardi is a Norse word, and probably means a gap, or a twin-topped hillock, which it is.
See Skene’s Chronicles of the Picts and Scots, pp. 8, 9 and lxxv, and Celtic Scotland, vol. i, 339, note.
15
The “scurvy Kalf” and “tree-bearded Thorir.”
16
O.S., ch. 6, 7.
17
O.S., ch. 8, on Rinar’s Hill. Tudor, O. and S., p. 364.
18
O.S., ch. 80. But see Heimskringla, Saga Library, i, 96 and St. Olaf’s Saga, ch. cv and cvii.
20
F.B., ch. 183, 184.
21
Tudor, Orkney and Shetland, p. 336.
22
Torf. Orc., p. 25, “facile de alieno largientis.”
23
F.B., 115. O.P., 783. F.B., 186. O.S., 10, 11. O.S., 8. Skene, Celtic Scotland, i, 374-9.
24
Dalrymple, Collections, p. 99.
25
Viking Society, Orkney and Shetland Folk, 1914, p. 5.
26
O.P., (Canisbay), vol. ii, 794, 816.
27
O.S., 11.
28
B.N., c. 85.
29
O.S., 12. F.B., 187. The F.B. makes the scene of this battle Skitten Moor.
30
F.B., 187.
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.
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.
34
See The Pictish Nation and Church, pp. 129-32, and 341.
35
See Darratha-liod, published by the Viking Club, 1910.
36
Burnt Njal, c. 151.
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.
38
Tudor, O. and S., p. 20.
39
Rods used for dividing and pressing downwards.
40
See Scandinavian Britain (Collingwood), p. 256-7, where Mr. Gilbert Goudie’s Antiquities of Shetland is referred to.
Notes
7 Ekkjals-bakki is clearly Oykel’s Bank, the high bank or ὄχθη ὑψηλή of Ptolemy. “Ochill” is the same word. As for Bakke, see Coldbackie and Hysbackie near Tongue.
2 An able paper on this subject by the late Mr. R.L. Bremner was read to the Viking Society, and it is hoped may be printed. But Brunanburgh is usually located south of the Humber, or in the Wirral in Cheshire. See Scandinavian Britain, pp. 131-4 where it is located on the west coast, and on this coast it probably was.
13 See Genealogie of the Earles, pp. 1 and 2, as to the “boundaries of Southerland.”
14 F.B., vol. i, pp. 221-9. See Trans. of O.S., Hjaltalin and Goudie, App. pp. 203-212. See also St. Olaf’s Saga, c. cix. See also generally Vigfusson’s Prolegomena to Sturlunga Saga, Introduction, p. xcii, vol. i.
19 See Blackwood’s Magazine, April 1920; an able and interesting article intituled A Branch of the Family, by J. Storer Clouston.