[Footnote 77: Skipa-fioerd in Islandic, and Loch-Lhong, in Gaelic, signifies the Bay of Ships.] [Footnote 78: Allan & Dougal his brother were, I imagine, the sons of Rudri (see the note on page 34.) This Allan we may suppose to be the same who, in Rymer's Foedera, is called "Alanus filius Rotherici," & who A. D. 1284 was one of the Barons that engaged to support Margaret of Norway's title to the crown of Scotland. Dugal was probably the predecessor of McDougal of Dunoly _i.e._ Olave's tower. The place might receive this name, from having been the residence of Olave, the youngest Son of Somerled thane of Argyle.] [Footnote 79: To avoid long, or dangerous circumnavigations, it was usual for the antients to draw their light canoes over isthmuses. Among the Greeks such places were termed [Greek: _diolchoi_] _i.e._ dragging-places, and there was a very remarkable one near Corinth. By the Scotch they were called Tarbats, from the Gaelic _tarn_ to draw, and _baat_ a boat. There was a Tarbat between Loch-Lomond and Loch-Long.] [Footnote 80: Alwin McArkel, as appears from the Chartulary of Glasgow, was created Earl of Levnach by Maol-Coluim IIII., A. D. 1153.] [Footnote 81: No doubt the neighbouring inhabitants retired to the isles of Loch-Lomond in times of danger.] [Footnote 82: _i.e._ Haco.] [Footnote 83: _i.e._ without an awning.] [Footnote 84: _i.e._ ships.] [Footnote 85: _i.e._, the Scotch.] [Footnote 86: Kerti-sveina (_orig._), _i.e._ Inspectors of the Lights, who were to see that the Norwegian palace was properly illuminated. The office corresponded exactly to the Canhowllyd of the Welsh Princes.] [Footnote 87: In the Fl. Ms. the Norwegians are said to have entered the transport.] [Footnote 88: Fl. MS., Five hundred.] [Footnote 89: Perus or Pherus (_orig._), probably Fergus.] [Footnote 90: A quotation from Giraldus's account of the Irish will both illustrate this passage & the antient method of fighting. "Utuntur--securibus quoque amplis, fabrili diligentia optime chalybatis, quas a Norwegiensibus & Oustmannis sunt mutuati. Una tantum manu, & non ambabus, securi percutiunt, pollice desuper manubrium in longum extenso ictu regente, a quo nec galea, caput, in conum erecta, nec reliquum corpus ferrea loricae tricatura tuetur. Unde & in nostris contigit temporibus totam militis coxam ferro utcunque fideliter vestitam, uno securis ictu praecisam fuisse, ex una equi parte coxa cum tibia, ex altera vero, corpore cadente moribundo. Lapides quoque pugillares, cum alia arma defecerint, hostibus in conflictu damnosissimos, prae alia gente promptius, & expeditius ad manum habent."] [Footnote 91: Knights at their creation were invested with belts ornamented with gems. See Malmsb., book 2, chap. 6.] [Footnote 92: A district of Norway.] [Footnote 93: Melanzeiar (_orig._). Fl. Ms. Melas eyiar, perhaps the island of Lamlash or Alisa.]