Saga_;
his parents;
relative of Sweyn;
at Bergen.

Blood-eagle.

Blood-rain in Iceland.

Blundus, Gaufrid, burgess of Inverness.

Boar, wild, in Cat.

Boece.

Boreale, Corpus Poeticum.

Borrobol.

Borve, rock-castle.

Bothgowanan, or Pitgavenny.

Bothwell, family of, descended from Freskyn.

Bothwell, Sir Andrew of.

Boun, whence Eng. bound, i.e., equipped.

Bracholy.

Brawl, formerly Brathwell (Breithivellir), Castle;
deriv.

Breithifjorthr, i.e., Broad-firth, Moray Firth.

Bressay Sound.

Brewster, Sir David.

Brian Borumha, king of Ireland.

Brichan, Jas.;
_Orig. Paroch. Scot._.

Bricius, bishop.

Brochs, or Pictish towers;
Roman relics found in;
date, number, distribution, rise, construction, &c.;
Norse place-names near brochs;
at Dunrobin;
used by Norse as dwellings;
Craig Carrill, Roman tablets found;
Skene on origin of;
at Feranach.

Broethrungr, firnari en, first cousin once removed.

Broxburn, (Strabrock).

Brunanburgh, site.

Brusi Sigurdson, earl.

Buchan, earl of.

Burghead, Turfness of Saga;
Norse raids from B. checked by Duffus.

Burnt Njal, Saga of;
transl. by Sir G.W. Dasent.

Cabot, Jean, in Iceland.

Cailleach (Carline) Stone in Kyleakin.

Cait, or Cat, Pictish province of, (now Caithness and Sutherland, q.v.),
in three parts, (1) Ness, (2) Strathnavern, and (3) Sudrland;
description of land;
unsuitable for trees in Ness;
west uninhabited in Viking times;
deer, etc., abounded;
Athelstan's naval demonstration;
held by earls of Orkney;
Duncan the maormor;
Picts and Norse;
map;
Pictish clergy driven from north-east by Norse;
land and people on arrival of Norse.

Cat, maormors of;
Duncan, or Dungall;
Moldan or Moddan.

Caithness (Ness), part of the ancient province of Cat, q.v.;
Norse occupied fertile parts;
ancient monuments;
writing;
_Orkneyinga Saga_ only record before 12th cent.;
earlier notices and later records;
earldom claimed by Sigurd Hlodverson;
Skuli Thorfinnson cr. earl;
C. people in Iceland;
sea battle between Ulf and Helgi;
Moddan, earl of C.;
his expedition to;
Norse earls;
Thorfinn returns to, after Scottish conquests;
"king of Catanesse," in "William the Wanderer";
St. Magnus