Torfness, the scene of the final conflict between Earl Thorfinn and Kali Hundason, is here described as on the south side of Bæfiord, and by Arnor, the Earls’ skald, as south of Ekkial, the river Oikel, which gave its name to Ekkiálsbakká, or the district along the banks of the Oikel and its estuary—the Kyle of Sutherland—which formed the march between the territory of the Norse earls and Scotland. Torfness may thus be conjectured to be Tarbatness, although we have nothing to fix the locality more definitely. Bæfiord, in this case, would be the wider portion of the Dornoch Firth. Munch suggests that the seemingly French name of Beaufort Castle may be a corruption of Bæfiord (which in that case would be the Beauly Frith); but in all probability the name Beaufort is what it seems to be, and much more modern. Footnote 257: In which King Olaf Haraldson (the Holy) was killed, A.D. 1030. Footnote 258: The Kjölen mountains, part of the range separating Norway from Sweden. Footnote 259: Hólmgard, now Novgorod, formerly Cholmogori, in Russia, which the Northmen called Gardariki. Footnote 260: The town of Ladoga, which Rurik, the first King of Russia, made his capital in the 9th century. It is now a mere hamlet. Footnote 261: Alfifa, queen of Canute the Great. Footnote 262: Ingigerd, daughter of King Olaf of Sweden, was married to King Jarizleif. She stipulated that Rögnvald should accompany her to Russia, and he received the town and earldom of Ladoga (Aldeigiuborg). Footnote 263: Nídarós, now the town of Drontheim, so called from its being situated at the mouth of the river Nid. Footnote 264: King Olaf adjudged Earl Einar’s third of the islands to be forfeited for the slaying of Eyvind Urarhorn. (See chap. v.) Footnote 265: _Skotlandsfiord_, Scotland’s Firth, was the name given to the channel between the Hebrides and the mainland of Scotland. (See chap. xxx.) Footnote 266: Vatnsfiord, probably Loch Vattin, an arm of the sea branching off Loch Bracadale, in Skye. Footnote 267: