[Footnote 38: If it were true, as his son Hakon had died in 1171, it would prove the death of Henry of Ross, Harold's eldest son by his first marriage, before 1196. The grandsons would be sons of Harold's daughter.] [Footnote 39: _O.S._ (Dasent trans.), p. 225. _Torfaeus Orcades_, i, c. 38.] [Footnote 40: _O.S._ (Rolls Ed.), pp. 226-231. It was nearer, and close to Thurso.] [Footnote 41: See _Hoveden Chron._, vol. iv, pp. 10-12, and _Scottish Annals from English Chroniclers_, pp. 316-8. (Alan O. Anderson.)] [Footnote 42: _O.P._ ii, 803.] [Footnote 43: Dalharrold afterwards belonged to Johanna of Strathnaver. _Reg. Morav._, p. 139, No. 126. Pope, _Torfaeus_, trans., Note p. 169. This battle is also said to have been fought by William the Lion himself, not by Reginald Gudrodson.] [Footnote 44: Only three are named, but six are afterwards referred to. For Pope Innocent's letter see _O. and S. Records_, vol. 1, p. 25.] [Footnote 45: _O.S._, Dasent, Rolls edit., pp. 228-30. It is not clear that the bishop lived till 1213. See _Two Ancient Records of the Bishopric_, Bannatyne Club, pp. 6 and 7.] [Footnote 46: He was there when Bishop Adam was murdered in that year.] [Footnote 47: This is a very large number and hardly credible. It was not 6000. Can Eystein be the Island Stone, the Man of the Ord?] [Footnote 48: Bain, _Calendar of Documents_, Nos. 321 and 324.] [Footnote 49: _O.S._, Rolls edit., p. 230.] [Footnote 50: _Sverri Saga_, 118, 119, 125.] [Footnote 51: _Lord Hailes' Addional Case of Elizabeth, claimant of the Earldom of Sutherland_, p. 8, and see Robertson, _Early Kings_, vol. ii, p. 446; App. N. esp. p. 494.] [Footnote 52: One of the Gordons of Garty in Sutherland.] CHAPTER VIII. [Footnote 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.] [Footnote 2: _O.S._, Rolls edit., p. 231.] [Footnote 3: _Scotichronicon_, VIII, clxxvi.] [Footnote 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.] [Footnote 5: _Chron. Mailros_, p. 114; _Lawrie_, p. 395.] [Footnote 6: _Hakon Saga_, c. 20.] [Footnote 7: Do. c. 45.] [Footnote 8: _Flatey Book_; Rolls edit., _O.S._ p. 232. _Breithivellir_ means Broadfield.] [Footnote 9: At Skinnet first; then, in 1239, at Dornoch even more worthily and in state.] [Footnote 10: _Flatey Book_; Rolls edit. _O.S._, p. 232.] [Footnote 11: _Province of Cat_, p. 73; see _Wyntoun Chron._, vii, c. 9.] [Footnote 12: See _Robertson's Index_, p. xxv.] [Footnote 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.] [Footnote 14: _Wyntoun Chron._ vii, c. 9.]