Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time; or, The Jarls and The FreskynsGray, James
History
Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time; or, The Jarls and The Freskyns
Gray, James
Caithness (Scotland) -- History; Freskin family; Sutherland (Scotland) -- History
Norsemen;
occupation of Caith. and Sutherland;
no women brought;
early Norse rulers;
defeated at Mortlach;
raids on Moray coast;
Freskyns appointed guardians of Moray against;
expedition against south Hebrides;
invasion of Sutherland repulsed at Embo;
law and language in Orkney and Shetland;
intermarriage with Celts;
influence of, on British law;
religion of early settlers in British Isles;
destroyed culture of St. Columba;
enslaved aborigines in their colonies;
their place-names in Scotland;
settled on coasts and lower valleys;
subdued by Scots in north;
Gaelic language adopted by;
few monuments in Scotland;
domestic and ecclesiastical buildings of wood or stone;
York Powell on;
discovery of America, and Africa.
Norse Influence on Celtic Scotland, (George Henderson).
Northman and Pict.
Norway;
viking raids on British Isles;
trade with Grimsby;
earl Ragnvald visited king Ingi;
earl Ragnvald returned from Jerusalem through Norway;
Margaret, queen of N.;
Scottish embassy to;
Hebrides ceded to Scotland.
Norway, kings of;
Harald Harfagr, (860-933);
Eric Bloody-axe, (930-935);
Olaf Tryggvi's son, (995-1000);
Magnus the Good, (1035-1047);
Harald Sigurdson Hardrada, (1045-1066);
Olaf Haraldson, (1067-1093);
Magnus Barelegs, (1093-1103);
Sigurd Magnusson, (1103-1130);
Magnus the Blind, (1130-1135);
Harald Gilli, (1130-1136);
Eystein Haraldson, (1142-1157);
Ingi, (1136-1161);
Magnus Erlingson, (1162-1184);
Sverrir, (1184-1202);
Hakon, Sverri's son, (1202-1204);
Hakon Hakonson, (1217-1263);
Magnus Hakonson, (1263-1280);
Christian I, (1459-1481), q.v.
Norway, History of, P.A. Munch.
Ochill, (Oykel).
Odal lands;
in Orkney;
none in Cat.
Odin;
blood-eagle rite;
worshipped by Norse in Britain;
Sigurd Hlodverson died fighting for;
and defeated at Clontarf.
Olaf, king of Norway;
received Thorfinn Sigurdson, earl of Orkney and Caithness;
and Thorkel Fostri;
his award;
killed at Stiklastad.
Olaf's Saga, St.;
account of earls of Orkney.
Olaf Haraldson Kyrre, king of Norway.
Olaf Tryggvi's-son;
conversion of Sigurd Hlodverson.
Olaf Tryggvason Saga;
account of earls of Orkney.
Olaf Bitling, king of the Sudreys;
m. Ingibiorg, daughter of earl Hakon.
Olaf the White, king of Dublin;
invasion of Scotland.
Olaf, king of Man.
Olaf Hrolfson, father of Sweyn and Gunni.
Olaf, son-in-law of earl Harold Maddadson.
Old-Lore Miscellany (Viking Society);
Darratha-liod;
authorship O.S.;
_Orkney and Shetland Folk_.
Old-shore (Asleifarvik).
Oliphant family;
charters, earldom of Caithness.
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