bably in Firth Parish in
mainland, near Finstown. _Short Magnus Saga_, c. 18, not "twenty," but
twenty-one years after his death. See _O.S._, c. 60. But vide Tudor
_O. and S._, pp. 251-2 and 348. See also Anderson's Introduction, p.
xc, to Hjaltalin and Goudie's _O.S. contra._]

[Footnote 15: _Viking Club Miscellany_, vol. i, pp. 43-65 (J.
Stefansson), but the authorship is disputed.]

[Footnote 16: _O.S._, 47]

[Footnote 17: _O.S._, 48. Both Hakon and Magnus were about five-sixths
Norse.]

[Footnote 18: _O.S._, c. 55; _Magnus Saga_, 30.]

[Footnote 19: _O.S._, 56.]

[Footnote 20: See _Reg. Dunfermelyn_, No. 1 and 23 (p. 14); Lawrie,
_Scot. Charters_, pp. 100, 179; Viking Club, _Caithness and Sutherland
Records_, p. 18, the note to which seems correct. "The Earl" was
Ragnvald, who ruled as Harold's guardian at this time, in Caithness
also. Durnach is now Dornoch.]

[Footnote 21: _Reg. Dunfermelyn_, No. 24 (p. 14). Supposed to be the
Huchterhinche of St. Gilbert's Charter to the Cathedral of Durnach.
_Sutherland Book_, iii, p. 4.]

[Footnote 22: Dunbar, _Scot. Kings_, pp. 51, 60, 61, 63. The name is
spelt "Fretheskin" also.]

[Footnote 23: Possibly 1120.]

[Footnote 24: See _History and Antiq. of the Parish of Uphall_ by the
Rev. J. Primrose (1898).]

[Footnote 25: _Family of Kilravoch_, p. 61. Robertson, _Early Kings_,
ii, 497, note.]

[Footnote 26: See _Familie of Innes_ (Spalding Club), pp. 2. 51, 52.]

[Footnote 27: _Sutherland Book_, vol. I, p. 7, and see map of Cat.]

[Footnote 28: See Pedigree in Appendix. _Reg. Morav._, c. 99, p. 114.
Freskyn I was his _attavus_, or great-great-grandfather.]

[Footnote 29: _Reg. Morav._ p. 139, ch. 126.]

CHAPTER VI.

[Footnote 1: _O.S._, 57, 58.]

[Footnote 2: _O.S._, 56, 57.]

[Footnote 3: _O.S._, 58.]

[Footnote 4: _O.S._, 58.]

[Footnote 5: Pope, _Torfaeus_ (trans.), note p. 133.]

[Footnote 6: Can she have inhabited the Broch at Feranach, which had
six chambers in the thickness of the wall, (Curle's _Inventory_,
No. 314), or is the site of her homestead (probably of wood) now
undiscoverable? She was burnt in her homestead, not in her residence.
The Saga account points to a site on the west bank of the river.]

[Footnote 7: _O.S._, 58.]

[Footnote 8: _O.S._, 59.]

[Footnote 9: _O.S._, 61, 62, 63, 65, c.f. the modern phrase "a young
hopeful."]

[Footnote 10: _O.S._, 66.]

[Footnote 11: _O.S._, 68.]

[Footnote 12: _O.S._, 69, 70, 71