Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time; or, The Jarls and The FreskynsGray, James
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Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time; or, The Jarls and The Freskyns
Gray, James
Caithness (Scotland) -- History; Freskin family; Sutherland (Scotland) -- History
Gillebride, earl of Angus;
his sons;
grandson (not son) Magnus II, earl of Orkney and Caith.;
his death.
Gilli Odran.
Glasgow;
John bishop of, mission to Orkney;
Herbert, bishop of, grant of Borthwick Church.
Glendhu, Loch;
identified as Murkfjord.
Goa-fiord, or Hoanfiord, (now Loch Erriboll);
Hakon's fleet at;
Eilean Hoan retains the name.
Gokstad;
viking ship.
Golsary, the shelling of Gol, in Latheron, Caithness, cf. Golspie.
Golspie (formerly Kilmalie);
owned by Hugo Freskyn;
(Gol's-by) formerly Platagall.
Good men.
Gormflaith.
Gospatric, eld. son of Maldred.
Goudie, Gilbert;
transl. _Orkneyinga Saga_;
_Antiquities of Shetland_.
Grants, Normans.
Gratiana, wife of William the Wanderer.
Gray, Thomas;
_The Fatal Sisters_.
Greenland.
Grelaud, dau. of Duncan, maormor of C.
Grimsby;
St. Ragnvald traded at, met Harald Gillikrist.
Gritgard, son of Moldan.
Groa, dau. of Thorstein the Red, m. Duncan of Duncansby.
Groa, wife of Macbeth.
Gudrun, sister of Anlaf, earl of C.
Guillaume le Roi.
Gulberwick.
Gunn, in Darratha-Liod.
Gunn family;
descent.
Gunn, Adam;
_Sutherland and the Reay Country_.
Gunnhild, wife of Eric Bloody-axe, in Orkney.
Gunnhild, Erlend's daughter, sister of earl St. Magnus, m. Kol;
her descendants.
Gunnhilda, dau. of earl Harold Maddadson and Hvarflod.
Gunni, brother of Sweyn Asleifarson;
outlawed.
Gunni;
m. (as 2nd husband) Ragnhild sister of earl Harald Ungi;
probably grandson of Sweyn Asleifarson;
became chief of Moddan family.
Guthorm Sigurdson, earl.
Guthred, son of Donald Ban MacWilliam;
led rebellion in Moray and slain.
Hadrian's Wall.
Hafrsfjord;
battle, (872).
Hailes, lord;
on forfeiture of earl Harold Maddadson;
_Annals of Scotland_, q.v.;
case of Elizabeth claimant of earldom of Sutherland.
Hakon Hakonson, king of Norway;
his mother's ordeal;
expedition to Scotland;
account of his expedition (1263);
died in the bishop's palace, Kirkwall;
result of expedition.
Hakon Sverri's son, king of Norway;
his son Hakon.
Hakon Haroldson, son of Earl Harold Maddadson and Afreka;
foster-child of Sweyn Asleifarson;
probably fell with Sweyn at Dublin;
with Sweyn;
his death.
Hakon Paulson, earl;
went to Norway;
in Norwegian expedition to Wales;
returned to Orkney;
slew the king's steward;
dispute with earl Magnus;
slew his cousin Dufnjal, and Thorbjorn in Burrafirth;
seized Magnus' share of earldom;
slew St. Magnus;
sole earl;
pilgrimage to Rome and Jerusalem, builder of the round church of
Orphir;
Helga and their children;
his son Paul by a lawful wife;
his descendant Ragnvald Godrodson;
Norse favourite for earldom of C., as against Magnus, had to
conquer C.;
mixed blood;
his grandson Erlend.
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