[Footnote 15: _Hakon Saga_, c. 86.] [Footnote 16: Do. c. 101. The Iceland Annals prove Harald's drowning.] [Footnote 17: _Hakon Saga_, c. 162, 165 and 167.] [Footnote 18: Snaekollr means Snowball. Being largely of Norse blood, he was probably a fair Viking.] [Footnote 19: _Hakon Saga_, 169.] [Footnote 20: See Tudor's _Orkney and Shetland_, p. 344 and p. 53, and _Hakon Saga_, 169-171.] [Footnote 21: _Hakon Saga_, 173.] [Footnote 22: Not _gydinga. Flatey Book_, iii, p. 528; _Torf. Orc._, ii, p. 163.] [Footnote 23: Pope, _Torfaeus_ (trans.), p. 184, note.] [Footnote 24: No. 126.] CHAPTER IX. [Footnote 1: One daughter married Olaf, who was killed at Floruvagr in battle in 1194, see _O.S._, Rolls edit., pp. 230-1 (trans.) Dasent.] [Footnote 2: Notably in Paul's _Scottish Peerage_ sub _Angus_ and _Caithness_.] [Footnote 3: Ancestor of the Ogilvies, Earls of Airlie.] [Footnote 4: _Scots Peerage_ (Cokayne & Gibbs), sub _Angus_ and _Caithness_. Dalrymple, _Collections_, p. 220.] [Footnote 5: _Reg. Aberbrothoc_, pp. 163 and 262, 1227, Jan. 16, "Magno filio comitis de Anegus."] [Footnote 6: Robertson, _Early Kings_, vol. ii, p. 23 (note), who quotes _Reg. Dunfermelyn_, No. 80, _Reg. Morav._ 110; _Lib. Holyrood_, 58, in support.] [Footnote 7: Shaw, _Moray_, 1775, p. 387, No. iv.] [Footnote 8: i.e., Malcolm's.] [Footnote 9: Surely an error for "Gilchrist."] [Footnote 10: See _Dalrymple's Collections_, 1705, pp. lxxiii-iv, where "North Caithness" is distinguished from Sutherland conjecturally. Probably, however, it was distinguished rather from the southern part of modern Caithness, viz. Latheron and Wick parishes.] [Footnote 11: This was William de Federeth II, son of Christian, not her husband of the same name.] [Footnote 12: This was Sir Reginald Cheyne III.] [Footnote 13: "Gilchrist" not "Gillebride" all through this quotation.] [Footnote 14: Gilchrist, however, died in 1204.] [Footnote 15: Not, we think, of Erlend, but of Paul. But South Caithness probably belonged to the Erlend share, i.e., Latheron and Wick parishes.] [Footnote 16: _Sutherland Book_, vol. 1, p. 12, note.] [Footnote 17: _Robertson's Index_, p. 62.] [Footnote 18: _Reg. Morav._, p. 341. _O.P._, vol. ii, 709.] [Footnote 19: Can the Mallard or Mallart be _Abhainn na mala airde_, "the river of the high brow"? Another interpretation, _Abhain na malairte_, "river of the excambion" has been suggested.] [Footnote 20: Achness--_Ach-an-eas_ or the field of the waterfall, old Gaelic _Achanedes_.] [Footnote 21: Marriages, however, of persons of unsuitable ages were freely made in these old times.] [Footnote 22: Norse jarldoms were not given to females, but the jarldom of Orkney was, failing sons, given to the sons of daughters of preceding jarls, such as Ragnvald, son of Gunnhild, and Harald Ungi, son of Jarl Ragnvald's daughter.] [Footnote 23: _Reg. Morav._, 215, 216; _O.P._, vol. ii, p. 486.]