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
Orkneyinga Saga (Rolls text and transl.);
historical record until 12th cent.;
battle of Turfness;
Thorfinn's life;
St. Magnus;
authorship;
Ragnvald and Sweyn Saga;
its end;
Somarled the Freeman slain;
earl Harold Maddadson's family;
earls;
Wick and Thurso;
transl. by Hjaltalin and Goudie;
Thorfinn's residence in C;
residence of Frakark;
Atjokl's Bakki.
Orm, earl;
m. Sigrid, not Ingibjorg, dau. of Finn Arnason.
Orphir;
the earl's hall burned;
round church;
incident of the poisoned shirt;
earl Paul's Yule feast, Sweyn slew Sweyn;
Jarls' Bu;
earl Ragnvald at.
Orphir;
The Round Church and Earl's Bu of, (Viking Society Saga-Book),
A.W. Johnston.
Osmundwall, or Kirk Hope, Orkney;
conversion of Sigurd Hlodverson;
king Hakon's fleet in.
Oswy, king.
Ottar, earl in Thurso;
his heir;
son of Moddan in Dale;
probably owned Thurso valley;
paid wergeld to Sweyn;
his lands left to earl Erlend Haraldson, and afterwards went to
Eric Stagbrellir;
his estates, forming the Moddan lands in Caith., held by Ragnhild
and Gunni;
Johanna of Strathnaver a connection.
Ottar, son of Snaekoll Gunnison.
Ousedale, or Eysteinsdal.
Oxford Essays, (Sir G.W. Dasent);
Norsemen in Iceland.
Oykel;
boundary between Cat and Ross;
identified as the Norse Ekkjal;
family of Freskyn de Moravia settled north of the;
in Sweyn's track to burn Frakark;
crossed by king William.
Papa Stronsay.
Papa Westray.
Paplay;
location.
Paul Hakonson, the Silent, earl of Orkney and Caith.;
his mother, 52;
lived in Orkney, 58;
banished Frakark and Helga from Orkney, 59;
sole earl, 60;
not a speaker at things, 60;
refused to share earldom with St. Ragnvald, 61;
defeated earl Ragnvald, 62;
seized his fleet in Shetland, 62;
yule feast at Orphir, 62;
kidnapped by Sweyn, 62;
deported to Athole, his fate, 63.
Paul Thorfinnson, earl of Orkney and Caith.;
joint earl of O. with his brother Erlend;
at battle of Stamford Bridge;
banished to Norway, where he died;
his descendants;
his daughters;
Scottish policy regarding later succession in Caithness;
Skene's theory as to Johanna of Strathnaver;
the converse theory;
John the last male of Paul's line;
his share of earldom of C., descended to daughter and Angus line
of C. earls.
Pentland Firth.
Perth;
court held (1260);
treaty of.
Peter, St.
Peter's church, St., Duffus.
Peter's church, St., Thurso.
Peter's pence.
Petty, William Freskyn of.
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