Chapter VIII
2
O.S., Rolls edit., p. 231.
3
Scotichronicon, VIII, clxxvi.
4
Fordun Gesta Annal., xxviii, Lawrie Annals, p. 397, “circa festum S. Petri ad vincula”, i.e., Augt. 1. 1214. There is no evidence whatever that her name was Matilda.
5
Chron. Mailros, p. 114; Lawrie, p. 395.
6
Hakon Saga, c. 20.
7
Do. c. 45.
8
Flatey Book; Rolls edit., O.S. p. 232. Breithivellir means Broadfield.
9
At Skinnet first; then, in 1239, at Dornoch even more worthily and in state.
10
Flatey Book; Rolls edit. O.S., p. 232.
11
Province of Cat, p. 73; see Wyntoun Chron., vii, c. 9.
12
See Robertson’s Index, p. xxv.
13
See Scottish Annals from English Chroniclers, Alan O. Anderson, pp. 336-7, where the Chronicle of Melrose, 139, (1222) is quoted, Lib. Pluscard, vii, 9.
14
Wyntoun Chron. vii, c. 9.
15
Hakon Saga, c. 86.
16
Do. c. 101. The Iceland Annals prove Harald’s drowning.
17
Hakon Saga, c. 162, 165 and 167.
18
Snaekollr means Snowball. Being largely of Norse blood, he was probably a fair Viking.
19
Hakon Saga, 169.
20
See Tudor’s Orkney and Shetland, p. 344 and p. 53, and Hakon Saga, 169-171.
21
Hakon Saga, 173.
22
Not gydinga. Flatey Book, iii, p. 528; Torf. Orc., ii, p. 163.
23
Pope, Torfaeus (trans.), p. 184, note.
24
No. 126.
Notes
1 See Peter Clauson Undal’s Translation of the lost Inga Saga, O.S., Dasent’s trans., Rolls ed., pp. 234-6, from which David and John appear as joint earls in Orkney and Shetland also, on payment of a large sum, only after King Sverri’s death.