Chapter VIII

[Footnote 1: See Peter Clauson Undal's Translation of the lost Inga Saga, _O.S._, Dasent's trans., Rolls ed., pp. 234-6, from which David and John appear as joint earls in Orkney and Shetland also, on payment of a large sum, only after King Sverri's death.]

[Footnote 2: _O.S._, Rolls edit., p. 231.]

[Footnote 3: _Scotichronicon_, VIII, clxxvi.]

[Footnote 4: _Fordun Gesta Annal._, xxviii, _Lawrie Annals_, p. 397, "circa festum S. Petri ad vincula", i.e., Augt. 1. 1214. There is no evidence whatever that her name was Matilda.]

[Footnote 5: _Chron. Mailros_, p. 114; _Lawrie_, p. 395.]

[Footnote 6: _Hakon Saga_, c. 20.]

[Footnote 7: Do. c. 45.]

[Footnote 8: _Flatey Book_; Rolls edit., _O.S._ p. 232. _Breithivellir_ means Broadfield.]

[Footnote 9: At Skinnet first; then, in 1239, at Dornoch even more worthily and in state.]

[Footnote 10: _Flatey Book_; Rolls edit. _O.S._, p. 232.]

[Footnote 11: _Province of Cat_, p. 73; see _Wyntoun Chron._, vii, c. 9.]

[Footnote 12: See _Robertson's Index_, p. xxv.]

[Footnote 13: See _Scottish Annals from English Chroniclers_, Alan O. Anderson, pp. 336-7, where the _Chronicle of Melrose_, 139, (1222) is quoted, Lib. Pluscard, vii, 9.]

[Footnote 14: _Wyntoun Chron._ vii, c. 9.]

[Footnote 15: _Hakon Saga_, c. 86.]

[Footnote 16: Do. c. 101. The Iceland Annals prove Harald's drowning.]

[Footnote 17: _Hakon Saga_, c. 162, 165 and 167.]

[Footnote 18: Snaekollr means Snowball. Being largely of Norse blood, he was probably a fair Viking.]

[Footnote 19: _Hakon Saga_, 169.]

[Footnote 20: See Tudor's _Orkney and Shetland_, p. 344 and p. 53, and _Hakon Saga_, 169-171.]

[Footnote 21: _Hakon Saga_, 173.]

[Footnote 22: Not _gydinga. Flatey Book_, iii, p. 528; _Torf. Orc._, ii, p. 163.]

[Footnote 23: Pope, _Torfaeus_ (trans.), p. 184, note.]

[Footnote 24: No. 126.]