Chapter III: Footnote 1: H.B., vol. i, p. 22

[Footnote 2: _Chron. Hunt._ Skene, _Chron. Picts and Scots_, p. 209.]

[Footnote 3: See also Rhys, _Celtic Britain_, p. 198.]

[Footnote 4: _Flatey Book_, vol. i, ch. 218.]

[Footnote 5: _H.B._, vol. i, p. 27.]

[Footnote 6: Haroldswick in Unst is said to have been called after King Harald. Tudor, _O. and S._, p. 570.]

[Footnote 7: _Ekkjals-bakki_ is clearly Oykel's Bank, the high bank or [Greek: ochthê hypsêle] of Ptolemy. "Ochill" is the same word. As for Bakke, see Coldbackie and Hysbackie near Tongue.]

[Footnote 8: _O.S._, ch. 4, 5.]

[Footnote 9: The late Dr. Joass had identified the site of the burial mound. It is said to be Croc Skardie on the S.E. bank of the River Evelix, near Sidera. Skardi is a Norse word, and probably means a gap, or a twin-topped hillock, which it is.]

[Footnote 10: _H.B._, i, p. 28.]

[Footnote 11: See Skene's _Chronicles of the Picts and Scots_, pp. 8, 9 and lxxv, and _Celtic Scotland_, vol. i, 339, note.]

[Footnote 2: An able paper on this subject by the late Mr. R.L. Bremner was read to the Viking Society, and it is hoped may be printed. But Brunanburgh is usually located south of the Humber, or in the Wirral in Cheshire. See _Scandinavian Britain_, pp. 131-4 where it is located on the west coast, and on this coast it probably was.]

[Footnote 13: See _Genealogie of the Earles_, pp. 1 and 2, as to the "boundaries of Southerland."]

[Footnote 14: _F.B._, vol. i, pp. 221-9. See Trans. of _O.S._, Hjaltalin and Goudie, App. pp. 203-212. See also _St. Olaf's Saga_, c. cix. See also generally Vigfusson's _Prolegomena to Sturlunga Saga_, Introduction, p. xcii, vol. i.]

[Footnote 15: The "scurvy Kalf" and "tree-bearded Thorir."]

[Footnote 16: _O.S._, ch. 6, 7.]

[Footnote 17: _O.S._, ch. 8, on Rinar's Hill. Tudor, _O. and S._, p. 364.]

[Footnote 18: _O.S._, ch. 80. But see _Heimskringla_, Saga Library, i, 96 and _St. Olaf's Saga_, ch. cv and cvii.]

[Footnote 19: See _Blackwood's Magazine_, April 1920; an able and interesting article intituled _A Branch of the Family_, by J. Storer Clouston.]

[Footnote 20: _F.B._, ch. 183, 184.]

[Footnote 21: Tudor, _Orkney and Shetland_, p. 336.]

[Footnote 22: _Torf. Orc._, p. 25, "facile de alieno largientis."]

[Footnote 23: _F.B._, 115. _O.P._, 783. _F.B._, 186. _O.S._, 10, 11. _O.S._, 8. Skene, _Celtic Scotland_, i, 374-9.]

[Footnote 24: Dalrymple, _Collections_, p. 99.]

[Footnote 25: Viking Society, _Orkney and Shetland Folk_, 1914, p. 5.]

[Footnote 26: _O.P._, (Canisbay), vol. ii, 794, 816.]

[Footnote 27: _O.S._, 11.]

[Footnote 28: _B.N._, c. 85.]

[Footnote 29: _O.S._, 12. _F.B._, 187. The _F.B._ makes the scene of this battle Skitten Moor.]

[Footnote 30: _F.B._, 187.]

[Footnote 31: _Thorgisl_, I, 4. (_Orig. Islandicae_, ii, p. 635.) In _The Old Statistical Account_ (Tongue) there is a tradition of such a fight on Eilean nan Gall at the entrance to the Bay of Tongue, then in Caithness.]

[Footnote 32: p. 23.]

[Footnote 33: See Sir Wm. Fraser's _Book of Sutherland_, and Pedigree in Appendix. There is a Craig Amlaiph (Olaf) above Torboll and Cambusmore (both in Cat) near the Mound in Sudrland. There were no Thanes of the De Moravia line in Sutherland.]

[Footnote 34: See _The Pictish Nation and Church_, pp. 129-32, and 341.]

[Footnote 35: See _Darratha-liod_, published by the Viking Club, 1910.]

[Footnote 36: _Burnt Njal_, c. 151.]

[Footnote 37: Iceland accepted Christianity by a vote of its Thing in 1000 A.D. "Blood" often fell in Iceland; after a volcanic eruption, rain was tinged with red.]

[Footnote 38: Tudor, _O. and S._, p. 20.]

[Footnote 39: Rods used for dividing and pressing downwards.]

[Footnote 40: See _Scandinavian Britain_ (Collingwood), p. 256-7, where Mr. Gilbert Goudie's _Antiquities of Shetland_ is referred to.]