the Orkney Earls--Magnus II's charter--The wardship question--Three claimants (1) Magnus, (2) Johanna of Strathnaver and (3) Earl John's nameless hostage daughter--Skene's opinion--The Cheynes and Federeths, descendants of Johanna--Her charitable gift--Her Moddan and Erlend descent--Magnus II, his descent and marriage--Freskin de Moravia, his descent, marriage, life, and death--The settlement of Caithness and Sutherland--Creation of the Sutherland Earldom between 10th October 1237 and Magnus' death in 1239--Conclusion.
CHAPTER X.
--KING HAKON'S EXPEDITION AND THE NORTH
1263-1266--Recapitulation--Norse jarls and the Norse Crown--Affairs in Sutherland--Battle at Embo--Dornoch Cathedral and its constitution--The Angus line and the Freskyns--Hakon's fleet at Ragnvaldsvoe sails south--Battle of Largs--Hakon's retreat and death--The mainland of Scotland and the Hebrides won for Scotland--Treaty of Perth, 1266.
CHAPTER XI.
--RESULTS AND CONCLUSION
The creed of the Viking--The causes of his migration--Odinism--Settlement in the West--Celtic mothers--Effect on race, language and place-names-- Viking remains--Skaill, Dunrobin--Castles--The Viking type of man--The blended race--Norman influence.
NOTES.
APPENDIX.--EARLY PEDIGREE OF THE FRESKYN FAMILY
INDEX
LIST OF AUTHORITIES AND BOOKS REFERRED TO.[1]
Anderson, Dr. Joseph. Rhind Lectures, "Scotland in Pagan Times." Edinburgh, 1883 and 1886.
Antiquaries. Proceedings of The Society of Scottish.
Bain. Calendar of Documents relating to Scotland in Record Office.
Bannatyne Club--Publications of.
Barry, History of Orkney. Edinburgh, Constable, 1805.
Broxburn. (Strabrock.) History and Antiquities of Uphall, by Rev. James Primrose. Edinburgh, Andrew Elliott, 1898.
Burnt Njal. Dasent's Translation. (B.N.)[2] Edinburgh, Edmonston & Douglas, 1861.
Caithness Family History, by John Henderson. Edinburgh, David Douglas, 1884.
Caithness, The County of--by John Home. Wick, W. Rae, 1907.
Calder's History of Caithness. Glasgow, Thomas Murray & Son, 1861.
Cat, History of the Province of--by Rev. Angus Mackay. Wick, Peter Reid & Co., Ltd., 1914.
Chalmers. Caledonia.
Chroniques Anglo-Normandes. Francisque Michel. Rouen, Ed. Frere, 1836.
Corpus Poeticum Boreale. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1883.
Curie. Monuments of Caithness. Royal Commission's Report, 1911.
Curie. Monuments of Sutherland. Royal Commission's Report, 1912.
Dalrymple's Collections, (1705).
Diploma of the Earls of Orkney.
Du Chaillu. The Viking Age. John Murray, 1889.
Dunfermelyn, Register of. (Bannatyne Club.)
Early Scottish Kings, by E. William Robertson, 1862.
Eric the Red--Saga of.
Flatey Book (Flateyjarbok). Christiania, Mailings, 1860. (F.B.)
Fordun. Scottish Annals. Edited by W.F. Skene. Edinburgh, Edmonston & Douglas, 1871.
Genealogie of the Earles of Southerland, by Sir Robert Gordon, Bart. Edinburgh, A. Constable, 1813.
Hailes (Lord) Additional Case of Elizabeth, Claimant of the Earldom of Sutherland and Annals of Scotland, (Dalrymple's Works, vol. 4).
Hakon Saga. Dasent's Translation, Rolls Edition, 1894. (H.S.)
Henderson, George--Norse Influence on Celtic Scotland. Glasgow, Maclehose, 1910.
Henderson, George--Survivals in Belief among the Celts. Glasgow, Maclehose, 1911.
Hume Brown. History of Scotland. (H.B.)
Innes, Familie of. (Spalding Club).
Laing and Huxley. Prehistoric Remains of Caithness. Williams, & Norgate, 1866.
Lawrie, Early Scottish Charters. Glasgow, Maclehose, 1905.
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Liber Pluscardensis. Edited by Felix J.H. Skene. Edinburgh, William Paterson, 1877.
Mackay, Rev. Angus. Book of Mackay. Edinburgh, Norman Macleod, 1906.
Magnus Saga (in Rolls Edition of Dasent's Translation of Orkneyinga Saga).
Maxwell, Sir Herbert, Early Chronicles relating to Scotland. Glasgow, Maclehose, 1912.
Moray--Registrum Episcopatus Moraviensis (Bannatyne Club) (Reg. Morav.)
Moray--Shaw's History of.
Munch's Symbolae or Notes to the Diploma of the Orkney Earls.
Munro, Dr. Robert. Prehistoric Scotland.
Nisbet's Heraldry.
Orcades, by Thormodus Torfaeus. Copenhagen, 1715.
Orcades, (Torfaeus) Translation by the Rev. A. Pope. Wick, Peter Reid, 1866.
Origines Islandicae. Vigfusson & York Powell. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1905.
Origines Parochiales Scotiae. Vol. ii, part ii. Edinburgh, W.H. Lizars, 1855. (O.P.)
Orkney and Shetland, by John R. Tudor. London, Edward Stanford, 1883. (O. &. S.)
Orkney and Shetland Folk, by A.W. Johnston. Viking Society, 1914.
Orkneyinga Saga. Dasent's Translation, Rolls Edition. (O.S.)
Orkneyinga Saga. Anderson, and Hjaltalin and Goudie's Translation. Edinburgh, Edmonston & Douglas, 1873.
Oxford Essays, 1858. (Dasent's Essay). London, John W. Parker & Son, 1858.
Pinkerton's History of Scotland preceding Malcolm III. Edinburgh, Bell & Bradfute, 1814.
Rhys' Celtic Britain. London, S.P.C.K., 1908.
Robertson's Index. Edinburgh, Murray and Cochrane, 1798.
Rymer. Foedera.
Saint-Clair. Roland William. The Saint-Clairs of the Isles. Auckland, H. Brett, 1898.
Scandinavian Britain, by W.G. Collingwood. London, S.P.C.K., 1908.
Scon. Liber Ecclesiae de.
Scott, Rev. Archibald--The Pictish Nation, its people and Church. Edinburgh and London, Foulis Press, 1918.
Scottish Annals from English Chroniclers, Alan O. Anderson. London, David Nutt, 1908.
Scottish Kings. Sir Archibald Dunbar, Bart. Edinburgh, David Douglas, 1906.
Scottish Peerages. Paul and Cokayne (Gibbs).
Skene, W.F. Celtic Scotland. Edinburgh, Edmonston & Douglas, 1878.
Skene, W.F. Chronicles of the Picts and Scots. Edinburgh, H.M. General Register House, 1867.
Sutherland Book, by Sir William Fraser. Edinburgh, 1892.
Sutherland and the Reay Country, by the Rev. Adam Gunn. Glasgow, John Mackay, Celtic Monthly Office, 1897.
Sverri's Saga. Translation by J. Sephton. London, David Nutt, 1899.
Tacitus--Agricola.
Thorgisl's Saga in Origines Islandicae (as above).
Viking Club. Caithness and Sutherland Records.} London Viking Club. Old Lore Miscellany. } 29 Ashburnham Viking Society. Saga Books, &c. } Mansions, Chelsea
William the Wanderer, by W.G. Collingwood. G.C. Brown Langham & Co., 47 Great Russell Street, London, W.C., 1904.
Worsaae. Danes and Norwegians. London, John Murray, 1852.
Worsaae. The Prehistory of the North. London, Trübner, 1886.
Wyntoun's Chronicle. Edinburgh, Edmonston & Douglas, 1872.
[Footnote 1: An excellent Bibliography of Caithness, by Mr. John Mowat, was published by W. Rae, Wick, in 1909, and of Caithness and Sutherland by The Viking Club, 1910, by the
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