Chapter XI
2
Oxford Essays, 1858, p. 165, Dasent, an admirable account of the Norsemen in Iceland.
3
Hume Brown, History, ante.
4
Scandinavian Britain, p. 35.
5
See Norse Influence on Celtic Scotland (Henderson), passim; and Sutherland and the Reay Country, (Rev. Adam Gunn), chapter on “Language,” p. 172.
6
Viking Club, Old Lore Miscell., vol. ii, 213; vol. iii, 14, 182, 234.
7
See Burnt Njal, (Dasent) for a plan and elevation of a Skali. Skelpick may be Skaill-beg, or Little Hall.
8
Ruins of Saga-time (in Iceland) by Thorsteinn Erlingson, David Nutt (1899).
9
See his Essay with plans in the Saga Book of the Viking Club, vol. iii, pp. 174-216.
10
i.e. Broadfield; see O.S., Rolls edition, p. 232, formerly Brathwell.
11
Mousa in Shetland was twice so used, by two honeymoon pairs. See Tudor, O. and S., p. 481.
O.S., 84, 100 and 22; 58, 78, 100, 101, 102, 113, and pp. 226, 227, 228, in Rolls edition. Hjalmundal is the strath, not the village of Helmsdale.
See Scotland in Early Christian Times, Dr. Joseph Anderson’s Rhind Lectures in 1879, pp. 141-2; Scandinavian Britain, p. 29.
20
Yet see the Romance of Guillaume le Roi, Chroniques Anglo-Normandes, vol. iii, Francisque Michel.
21
As witness the Seaforths (Sæ-fjorthr) of the 51st Division in France.
22
Vol. 1, p. 45. See also Burton’s History of Scotland, vol. i, chapter xi, and vol. ii, pp. 14 and 15.
Notes
1 Scandinavian Britain, p. 62. To Orkney and Shetland they came mainly from the fjords north of Bergen.
14 We find in Latheron in Caithness “Golsary” the shieling of Gol. Platagall, see O.P., ii, p. 680.
15 The bodily form often follows that of fathers of a fair race, it is said.
19 Saga of Erik the Red and St. Olaf’s Saga. See Orig. Islandicae, vol. ii, Bk. v, pp. 588-756 “Explorers.”