Earl Haraldr Maddaðarson was succeeded by his sons, earls Davið Haraldsson, d.s.p. 1214, and Jón Haraldsson, slain, 1231, the latter having been predeceased by his son, Haraldr Jónsson, who was drowned in 1226.[5] Earl Jón Haraldsson was succeeded by Malcolm, the Gaelic earl of Angus, from whom the title was transferred to his kinsman (uncle or cousin), earl Magnús, who was succeeded by his son or brother, earl Gilbert (Gaelic, _Gilleabart_), who was succeeded by his son, earl Magnús Gilbertsson, who was succeeded by his sons, earls Magnús and John and another earl Magnús, after which the earldom passed to Malise, (Gaelic, _Maoliosa_), Gaelic earl of Strathearn, through his great grandmother, a daughter of earl Gilbert. After Malise, the earldom, after an interregnum, passed to his daughter’s son, Henry St. Clair, in whom the earldom was vested in 1379. His grandson, earl William, after the wadset of Orkney and Shetland to Scotland in 1468-9, resigned his right to the earldom to the crown of Scotland in 1472, when it was annexed to the crown as a royal title.[6] [5] Isl. Annals. [6] _Scots Peerage._ THE GŒÐINGAR: EARL’S MEN. The suggestion of Vigfússon in the Oxford _Dictionary_ that the _gœðingar_ of the earls of Orkney were synonymous with the _lendir-menn_ of the kings of Norway can be amply proved by the Saga. One explicit instance gives a clue to the whole mystery, viz., that of Kúgi, a gœðingr (of earl Páll), whom we find living in Hreppisnes, now Rapnes, in Westrey. The bú of Rapnes, Swartmeill, and Wasbuster, were, in 1503, described as _boardlands_ or _borlands_ of the old earldom, paying no skattr. _Bordland_ or _borland_ is a Scottish loanword, meaning, “land kept for the board of the laird’s house.”[7] The Oxford _New English Dictionary_ states that the form _bordland_ is first found in Bracton, c. 1250, by whom it is wrongly derived from _bord_, a table, whereas it is from M. Lat. _borda_, a hut, cot, and was applied to land held in _bordage_ tenure by a _bordar_, a villein of the lowest rank, a cottier. The Gaelic _bòrlum_, royal castle lands, _borlanachd_, compulsory labour for a landlord, must also come from the same source. [7] _Scottish Land-Names_, by sir Herbert Maxwell, bt., 123, Macbain’s _G. Dict._, s.v. _bòrlum_. _Boardland_ in Orkney is, therefore, a translation of Old Norse _veizlu-jörð_, land granted in fief for military service and for the entertainment of the superior when on circuit. In accordance with the _Hirðskrá_ of king Magnús Hákonsson, the earl, while prohibited from disposing of the earldom lands, was permitted to grant earldom lands _at veita_ or _at veizlu_, _i.e._, in return for military service and entertainment. It seems certain that the same privilege was allowed by the older _Hirðskrá_, which is now lost.