Chapter V
1
Short Magnus Saga, I. O.S., 37.
2
O.S., 38.
3
See Orkney and Shetland Folk (Viking Society, 1914), A.W. Johnston’s note, p. 35. See Dunbar’s Scottish Kings, p. 7.
As to the Bishop, see Orkney and Shetland Records, pp. 3-8; and as to their quarrels, see O.S., 40.; Magnus Saga the Longer, 6 and 8. For St. Magnus, see Pinkerton’s Lives of the Scottish Saints, revised by W.M. Metcalfe (Paisley, Alexander Gardner, 1889), p. xlii, and pp. 213-266.
9
So called because he wore the kilt, in its original form, not the philabeg.
10
Magnus Saga, 10, 11 and 20. The story of this time is confused and difficult. Torfaeus, trans., p. 85 and Torfaeus Orcades, c. xviii. From c. 20 of Magnus Saga the Longer it is clear that Hakon in 1112 took Paul’s share of Caithness also and Magnus took Erlend’s share, and that they divided that earldom and lands.
Magnus Saga the Longer, c. 10 to 28. O.S., c. 46 to 55. There is little doubt but that Magnus was the Scottish candidate for Caithness, and Hakon the Norse favourite, and Hakon had to conquer Cat.
15
Viking Club Miscellany, vol. i, pp. 43-65 (J. Stefansson), but the authorship is disputed.
16
O.S., 47
17
O.S., 48. Both Hakon and Magnus were about five-sixths Norse.
18
O.S., c. 55; Magnus Saga, 30.
19
O.S., 56.
20
See Reg. Dunfermelyn, No. 1 and 23 (p. 14); Lawrie, Scot. Charters, pp. 100, 179; Viking Club, Caithness and Sutherland Records, p. 18, the note to which seems correct. “The Earl” was Ragnvald, who ruled as Harold’s guardian at this time, in Caithness also. Durnach is now Dornoch.
22
Dunbar, Scot. Kings, pp. 51, 60, 61, 63. The name is spelt “Fretheskin” also.
23
Possibly 1120.
24
See History and Antiq. of the Parish of Uphall by the Rev. J. Primrose (1898).
25
Family of Kilravoch, p. 61. Robertson, Early Kings, ii, 497, note.
26
See Familie of Innes (Spalding Club), pp. 2. 51, 52.
27
Sutherland Book, vol. I, p. 7, and see map of Cat.
28
See Pedigree in Appendix. Reg. Morav., c. 99, p. 114. Freskyn I was his attavus, or great-great-grandfather.
Notes
4 See Dalrymple’s Collections (1705), p. 153 for the date of Malcolm’s marriage with St. Margaret, p. 157, where he puts the marriage in 1070, after three years’ courtship. See also pp. 163 and 164. Sir Archibald Dunbar puts Ingibjorg’s marriage in 1059, as stated above, and if Thorfinn was an Earl from his birth in 1008, he would have been 50 years earl in 1058. As a king’s grandson he might well have been an earl from his birth.
5 Rolls Edition O.S., p. 45, c. 30. She must have died before 1068 when Malcolm Canmore married Margaret, daughter of Edward Atheling, sister of Edgar Atheling. Dunbar, Scottish Kings, p. 27. Was Ingibjorg’s marriage within the prohibited degrees, and so dissolved? See also Henderson, Norse Influence, &c., p. 25-26, which is not correct. Earl Orm married Sigrid, d. of Finn Arneson not Ingibjorg. See Table ix, Saga Library, vol. 6, Earls of Ladir, and Table xi.
6 The O.S. mentions only Duncan. The other sons seem doubtful. But see Dunbar, Scottish Kings, p. 31 and notes, and p. 38.
13 Who was Dufnjal? What does “firnari en broethrungr” mean? Who was Duncan the Earl? Possibly the Norse expression means half first cousin, and if Dufnjal was Earl Duncan’s son, the relationship was through Malcolm III, and Dufnjal was a son of King Duncan II, called “Duncan the Earl,” of whom, however, the O.S. and Longer Magnus Saga say nothing in this connection. But see Henderson, Norse Influence, &c., p. 26 contra.
14 Paplay, Thora’s home, was probably in Firth Parish in mainland, near Finstown. Short Magnus Saga, c. 18, not “twenty,” but twenty-one years after his death. See O.S., c. 60. But vide Tudor O. and S., pp. 251-2 and 348. See also Anderson’s Introduction, p. xc, to Hjaltalin and Goudie’s O.S. contra.
21 Reg. Dunfermelyn, No. 24 (p. 14). Supposed to be the Huchterhinche of St. Gilbert’s Charter to the Cathedral of Durnach. Sutherland Book, iii, p. 4.
29 Reg. Morav. p. 139, ch. 126.