Now Hákon kló, who flourished _circa_ 1150, was a gœðingr, and was presumably connected with the islands of Sandey and Rinansey, over which his brothers were gœðingar, and there is no historical or traditional evidence associating him or his family with Clouston, in any way. Dr. Jakob Jakobsen has pointed out that _kló_, f., a claw, denotes, in Norse place-names, something projecting, curved or pointed. It occurs in a large number of place-names in Shetland, including an identical name to that in Orkney, viz., Klusta, *_Kló-staðr_, _-staðir_, a district situated on a headland between two bights. Now the bú, or principal farm, of Clouston, from which the whole township takes its name, is also situated on a ness; and directly opposite to the house is a claw-formed or curved tongue of land which projects into the Loch of Stennes, which leaves no possibility of a doubt as to the true origin of the name. With regard to nicknames, those which are person forenames in themselves, such as _brúsi_, buck, and personifications such as _hlaupandi_, landlouper, etc., are used in place-name formation; while nicknames which merely point to an eccentricity in personal detail and are attached to forenames, such as _kló_, finger-nail, _flat-nefr_, flat nose, _rang-beinn_, _-eygr_, _-muðr_, wry-legged, squint-eyed, wry-mouth, etc., do not lend themselves for place-names, _quasi_, “flat-nose’s farm.” But even if such nicknames were detached from their forenames and applied to places, they would be in the genitive case, _e.g._, if Hákon kló had been known as kló (of which there is no evidence) then his farm would have been called *_Klóar-staðr_, Claw’s farm, not *_kló-staðr_, claw-farm, which could only point to a claw-formation in the place, such as we actually find in Clouston itself, and hence the name. Circumstantial evidence is against Hákon kló, a gœðingr, with the _uppkvöð_ of the _leiðangr_, levy of ships and men, being landlocked in one of the very few inland townships in Orkney, situated from two to three miles from the nearest easy landing place. Earl Haraldr Maddaðarson in going from Grímsey to Fjörðr (Firth) by way of (Clouston and) Orkahaugr (Maes-howe), chose Hafnarvágr (Stromness harbour) as his landing place, and the same choice would be made now.