Eindridi; wrecked off Shetland; sailed with earl Ragnvald to the East; his treachery; and desertion. Ekkjal, Norse name of Oykel. Ekkjals-bakki; southern limit of conquest of earl Sigurd I; indentification disputed; earl Paul's journey to Athole; in Sweyn's track to burn Frakark; Atjokl's bakki. Eclipse of sun in Orkney, Augt. 5th, 1263. Eddirdovir, castle of, at Redcastle. Eddrachilles. Edgar, claimant to Scottish crown. Einar Sigurdson, earl; his slaughter. Elgin; cathedral, built by Andrew, bishop of Moray; records; Johanna granted lands in Strathnaver for the cathedral; constitution of diocese based on Lincoln; guides for Sweyn. Elin, dau. of Eric Stagbrellir; at home near Loch Naver; she, or sister, m. Gilchrist, earl of Angus, and was mother of Magnus II, earl of Caithness. Elk; abounded in Cat; horns found. Ellarholm. Ellwick (Ellidarvik). Embo, near Dornoch; Norse defeated and their "prince" slain, to whom the Ri-Crois erected. Erde-houses, of Pictish times. Erg (Gaelic, airigh), a sheiling, Norse, setr; pl. ergin, sheilings, in Asgrim's Ergin. Eric bloody-axe. Erik the Red, Saga of. Eric Stagbrellir, son of Audhild, brought up in Kildonan by Frakark; sole male survivor of Moddan line; m. Ingigerd, dau. of earl St. Ragnvald, united the Erlend and Moddan estates; tried to reconcile earls Ragnvald and Harold; probably got earl Ottar's lands on the death of earl Erlend; viking raid to Hebrides and Scilly Isles; his son Harald Ungi made earl of Orkney and Caithness (excluding Sutherland); his son, Ragnvald; line represented by Snaekoll Gunni's son. Eric Streita; husband of Audhild, dau. of Thorleif. Erlend Haraldson, earl of Orkney and Caith.; heir of earl Ottar; granted half earldom of Caith.; granted half earldom of Orkney; supported by Sweyn; in Shetland; slain; last of male line of Thorfinn Sigurdson; nearest heir, Ragnvald Gudrodson, king of Man; grandson of Hakon Paulson; not Erlend Ungi. Erlend Torf-Einarson, earl; slain in England. Erlend Thorfinnson; joint earl of Orkney and Caith. with his brother Paul; at battle of Stamford Bridge; banished to Norway where he died; his descendants; his line of heirs; Scottish policy as to succession; Snaekoll Gunni's son, chief of line; Skene's theory; the converse theory that Magnus of Angus m. the nameless dau. of earl John, through whom he got the title, and Paul's lands; his share of earldom of Caithness; inherited by Johanna of Strathnaver; his line (excepting Harald Ungi) excluded from Orkney during rule of earl Harold, David and John; succession to Erlend lands in C.