[192] _Antiq. Celt.-Scand._, p. 108. _Tigh._ 1034. Gille, Jarl of the Sudreys, was either the nephew or the brother-in-law of Jarl Sigurd,--or both, as a marriage between an aunt and her nephew occasionally took place in the distant north. [193] _Tigh._ 1052, 1061. _Col. de Reb. Alb._, p. 346. _Seventy_-five and _sixty_-five years have been given to Thorfin, but as he was five years of age when his father fell at Clontarf in 1014, and his own death occurred before the expedition of Harald Hardrade in 1066, he probably died at the age of _fifty_-five, in 1064. [194] _Chron. Man._ 1047. The dates of this Chronicle are occasionally very inaccurate, but they are easily rectified. Godfrey Crovan conquered Man five years after the inroad of Malcolm the Third into Cleveland, _i.e._, in 1075. [195] _Tigh._ 1072. [196] _Tigh._ _An. Ult._ and _A. F. M. ad an._ 1075. [197] _Chron. Man._ 1056. The abrogation of the Odallers’ rights appears to have been the first step invariably taken by Scandinavian conquerors. The result was taxation, the king or Jarl asserting his right to the land. This division of the island was probably the reason of the two _Deemsters_ or Judges of Man. [198] _Chron. Man._ _An. Ult._ and _A. F. M._ 1094. Godfrey is generally known in the Irish Annals as _Meranach_, or the Bad. [199] _An. Ult._ 1087. [200] _An. Ult._ and _A. F. M._ 1095. _An. Inisf._ 1078. _Chron. Man._ “Nullus qui fabricant navem vel scapham ausus esset plus quam tres clavos insere.” Such are the words of the Chronicle; their exact meaning I do not pretend to understand. [201] This account of the first expedition of Magnus is taken from the _Heimskringla, Saga_ 11, c. 9, 10, 11. _Chron. Man._ 1098. _Chron. Sax._ 1098. From his partiality to the costume of the Islesmen, he obtained the name of Magnus _Barefoot_. The later Scottish Chroniclers assert that the cession of the Isles was the price of the assistance of Magnus, which placed Donald Bane upon the throne. He must have been resuscitated from the grave. [202] _Heimsk. Saga_ 11, c. 25. _An. Ult._ _A. F. M._ 1101, 1102. According to the Chronicle of Man, Magnus sent his shoes to Murketagh, ordering that king to carry them on Christmas day, in token of his inferiority. The Irish chieftains were naturally indignant, but their king replied that he was ready to eat the shoes rather than one province of Ireland should be wasted! This singular tale was unknown to the Norse and Irish Chroniclers; and indeed, if Magnus deserved the epithet appended to his name, it would have been difficult for him to send such articles of apparel to the Irish court. [203] _Heimsk. Saga_ 11, c. 26–28. _An. Ult._ and _A. F. M._ 1103. _Vide_ also _Antiq._ _Celt.-Scand._, p. 231 to p. 244. [204] _An. Inisf._ 1086. _Malm. Gesta Regum_, l. 5, sec. 409. [205] _Fordun_, l. 5, c. 34. [206] Sim. _Dun. de Gestis_ 1107. _Ailred de Bel. Stand_ (_Twysden_, p. 344). _Fordun_, l. 5, c. 55.