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, 72, 73-80.] [Footnote 13: See Tudor, _Orkney and Shetland_, pp. 35 and 375.] [Footnote 14: See note to Hjaltalin and Goudie _O.S._, p. 107, where Atjokl's-bakki is suggested as an emendation, and also p. 115.] [Footnote 15: Maiming made a Northman impossible.] [Footnote 16: _O.S._, 81.] [Footnote 17: _O.S._, 81.] [Footnote 18: _O.S._, 82.] [Footnote 19: Guides would be easily got from Elgin. For the MacHeths, constantly fled to the wilds of Cat for refuge, before, in 1210 or later, they settled there, getting land in Durness after 1263.] [Footnote 20: i.e. The Minch. It is said that he was the ancestor of the Macaulays of the Lewis, but Macaulay means son of Olaf, not of Olvir.] [Footnote 21: _O.S._, 88. Earl Waltheof must have been a neighbour of Freskyn in Moray.] [Footnote 22: _O.S._, 86.] [Footnote 23: _O.S._, 89. Ragnvald's verses are collected in _Corpus Poet Boreale_, vol. ii, pp. 276-7. See Tudor, _O. and S._ p., 471.] [Footnote 24: Whence the English expression "bound" for a destination by sea, i.e. "equipped," which is also a Norse word which has nothing to do with the Latin "equus" a horse.] [Footnote 25: _O.S._, 91. Bilbao=the sea-borg on the River Nervion, not Narbonne, see Rolls Ed., p. 163, note, and _Introduction_, p. lix.] [Footnote 26: _O.S._, 89-99.] [Footnote 27: _O.S._, 99 and 100.] [Footnote 28: He was grandson of Hacon Paulson, a grandson of Thorfinn, and he was also a grandson of Helga, Moddan's daughter.] [Footnote 29: _O.S._, 100.] [Footnote 30: See Tudor, _O. and S._, p. 344.] [Footnote 31: _O.S._, 101. Who this Erlend the Young was is unknown, but he can hardly have been Jarl Erlend Haraldson, Margret's nephew. Dasent, Rolls Edit., trans., p. xi. Tudor, _O. and S._, p. 445.] [Footnote 32: _O.S._, 102. Ingigerd would thus be born not later than 1136. She is possibly the "Ingigerthr, of women the most beautiful" in the Runes of Maeshowe.] [Footnote 33: _O.S._, 102, not "from Beruvik," but "from the bridal" (brudkaupi) probably.] [Footnote 34: This may be another headland. Brimsness is suggested. _O.P._, ii, 801, contra.] [Footnote 35: _O.S._, 103, 104.] [Footnote 36: _O.S._, 105. See as to Ellar-holm (Helliar-holm) Tudor, _O. and S._, 283.] [Footnote 37: _O.S._, 110, 111.] [Footnote 38: _O.S._, 111.] [Footnote 39: Curle, _Early Mon. Suthd._, p. 108 No. 316; and note that the horns of the elk or reindeer have been found in Sutherl
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