Chapter IV
1
Reg. Morav., p. xxiv, and Charter No. 264, p. 342.
2
Dunbar, Scottish Kings, pp. 4-7.
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.
Trithing—the same word as Riding in Yorkshire, one-third. See Scot. Hist. Review, Oct. 1918. J. Storer Clouston. Ulfreksfirth is Larne Bay.
7
O.S., 17, 18.
8
O.S., 20, 21, and St. Olaf’s Saga, cix.
9
O.S., 22.
10
O.S., 22. See Corpus Poeticum Boreale, vol. ii, pp. 180-3, 195 and notes.
11
O.S., 22. Dunbar, Scottish Kings, p. 15 and note 22. The Standing Stane was removed to Altyre about 1820. See Romilly Allen, Early Christian Monuments of Scotland, p. 136, “removed from the College field at the village of Roseisle.”
12
O.S., 22.
13
O.S., 22, 23.
14
Robertson, Early Kings, vol. i, p. 116 and note, 116 and 117.
15
O.S., 23, 24, 25, 26. St. Olaf’s Saga, c. cviii, ccxlv.
16
O.S., 27. These raids are unknown to English historians.
17
O.S., 30.
18
O.S., 31.
19
O.S., 33, 34. See Tudor’s Orkney and Shetland, p. 356. “Roland’s Geo” is at the N. end of Papa Stronsay.
20
“Christ Church” in the Sagas denotes a Cathedral Church.
21
O.S., 37. See Chronicles of the Picts and Scots (Skene), p. 78.
22
O.S., 13-39.
23
Pope, Torf. (Trans.), p. 62 note. See Genealogie of the Earles, p. 135.
Notes
4 Skuli was first Earl of Caithness, which then included Sutherland, see ante, but he was Norse.