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
Picts;
settlements of hermits and missionaries;
chronicles;
Pictish church replaced by Catholic church;
driven eastward and northward by Scots;
seven provinces;
P. and Northmen;
hunters and fishers;
brochs for defence, arms, etc.;
clans;
non-seafaring Celts;
never conquered by Romans;
did not have mastery of sea in Norse times;
Christian missions and Columban church;
viking invasion;
Pictish language superseded by Gaelic;
never dispossessed of upper parts of valleys throughout Norse
occupation;
conquered by Scots;
language, "P" Celtic;
Picts of Athole, Moray, Ross and Cat;
Pictish church and Pictish province of Ross and Moray resisted
Scottish civilisation;
Normans accepted as chiefs;
their Christianity;
Norse drove clergy from Orkney, N.E. Caithness, coasts of
Sutherland and sea-board of Ross and Moray;
Norse attacks on Picts, effect of;
their lands seized by Norse.
Pictish Nation and Church, The;
(Rev. A.B. Scott), Pictish navy.
Pictland;
St. Ninian's mission;
St. Kentigern's mission.
Picts and Scots, Chronicle of the;
origin of brochs;
(Tighernac);
the Pictish navy.
Place-names;
Norse p.n. preserved;
near brochs.
Plantula, dau. of Malcolm II, m. Sigurd, earl of Orkney.
Platagall, "flat of the stranger," old name of Golspie.
Pluscardensis, Liber.
Pope, Alexander, of Reay;
a tradition of Snaekoll's return;
transl. Torf.
Popes;
Innocent III, letter.
Powell, York.
Prehistoric races.
Primrose J.;
_Hist, and Antiq. of the Parish of Uphall_.
Rafn the Lawman;
chief of stewards of Caithness;
remained as lawman;
at bishop Adam's burning;
in derivation of Dunrobin--Drum-Rafn.
Ragnhild, dau. of Eric Bloody-axe.
Ragnhild, dau. of Eric Stagbrellir;
sister of earl Harald Ungi;
m. (2) Gunni;
by whom she had a son, Snaekoll;
her children the only heirs of Ragnvald and of Moddan;
at home near Loch Naver;
m. (1) Lifolf Baldpate;
Johanna of Strathnaver, her sole descendant after 1232;
held Moddan lands.
Ragnvald, jarl of Maeri;
made first Norse earl of Orkney;
slain in Norway.
Ragnvald Brusi's son, earl of Orkney;
personal appearance;
at Stiklastad;
in Russia;
Thorfinn's claims and their sea fight;
escaped to Norway;
returned and burned Thorfinn's hall;
his slaughter;
his grave;
Kali Kolson named after him.
Ragnvald, son of Eric Stagbrellir;
fared to Norway;
lived near Loch Naver;
sole male representative of Erlend Thorfinnson;
not known what became of him.
Ragnvald Gudrodson, the viking;
his descent;
his title to earldom;
invaded Caithness.
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