Chapter XI

[Footnote 1: _Scandinavian Britain_, p. 62. To Orkney and Shetland they came mainly from the fjords north of Bergen.]

[Footnote 2: _Oxford Essays_, 1858, p. 165, Dasent, an admirable account of the Norsemen in Iceland.]

[Footnote 3: _Hume Brown, History_, ante.]

[Footnote 4: _Scandinavian Britain_, p. 35.]

[Footnote 5: See _Norse Influence on Celtic Scotland_ (Henderson), _passim_; and _Sutherland and the Reay Country_, (Rev. Adam Gunn), chapter on "Language," p. 172.]

[Footnote 6: Viking Club, _Old Lore Miscell._, vol. ii, 213; vol. iii, 14, 182, 234.]

[Footnote 7: See _Burnt Njal_, (Dasent) for a plan and elevation of a Skali. Skelpick may be Skaill-beg, or Little Hall.]

[Footnote 8: _Ruins of Saga-time_ (in Iceland) by Thorsteinn Erlingson, David Nutt (1899).]

[Footnote 9: See his _Essay_ with plans in the _Saga Book of the Viking Club_, vol. iii, pp. 174-216.]

[Footnote 10: i.e. Broadfield; see _O.S._, Rolls edition, p. 232, formerly Brathwell.]

[Footnote 11: Mousa in Shetland was twice so used, by two honeymoon pairs. See Tudor, _O. and S._, p. 481.]

[Footnote 12: _O.P._, vol. ii, 758.]

[Footnote 13: _O.S._, 84, 100 and 22; 58, 78, 100, 101, 102, 113, and pp. 226, 227, 228, in Rolls edition. Hjalmundal is the strath, not the village of Helmsdale.]

[Footnote 14: We find in Latheron in Caithness "Golsary" the shieling of Gol. Platagall, see _O.P._, ii, p. 680.]

[Footnote 15: The bodily form often follows that of fathers of a fair race, it is said.]

[Footnote 16: See p. 21.]

[Footnote 17: Frontispiece to vol. 1 of Du Chaillu's _Viking Age_.]

[Footnote 18: See _Scotland in Early Christian Times_, Dr. Joseph Anderson's _Rhind Lectures_ in 1879, pp. 141-2; _Scandinavian Britain_, p. 29.]

[Footnote 19: _Saga of Erik the Red_ and _St. Olaf's Saga_. See _Orig. Islandicae_, vol. ii, Bk. v, pp. 588-756 "Explorers."]

[Footnote 20: Yet see the Romance of _Guillaume le Roi_, Chroniques Anglo-Normandes, vol. iii, Francisque Michel.]

[Footnote 21: As witness the Seaforths (Sæ-fjorthr) of the 51st Division in France.]

[Footnote 22: Vol. 1, p. 45. See also Burton's _History of Scotland_, vol. i, chapter xi, and vol. ii, pp. 14 and 15.]