Magnus II, earl of Orkney and Caithness; obscure pedigree; parentage; erroneously called son of Gillebride of Angus; his name suggests a Norse mother of the line of earl Erlend; perambulated lands of Arbroath Abbey; not a minor on earl John's death; regarding his supposed son, Magnus; grant of earldom of south Caith.; probably possessed by line of Erlend; supposed marriage to the nameless dau. of earl John; got earl John's earldom lands and title; remainder of the earldom granted to him as son of a sister of earl Harald Ungi; neither he nor wife claimed any part of Strathnaver lands; Sutherland excluded from earldom; Erlend line excluded from Orkney since Ragnvald's death (excepting Harald Ungi); earl of Orkney; Caith. lands of the Angus line of earls; death, successor.
Magnus III, Gibbonson, earl of Orkney and Caithness; extent of his estate in Caithness; in Bergen with king Hakon (1263); his position as earl of C.; stayed behind under orders to follow Hakon; deserted him; reconciled to Alexander III and to king of Norway.
Magnus' Cathedral, St., Kirkwall; relics of saint were removed to; erected by St. Ragnvald; king Hakon temporarily buried in; built by Norse.
Magnusson, Eirikr; transl. of Darratha-liod.
Mainland, Orkney; Thorfinn's Hall; meeting between earls Hakon and Magnus.
Malcolm II, king of Scotland; dau. m. Sigurd Hlodverson; kingdom of Scotland produced; contemporary records begin; defeated Norse at Mortlach; his daughters; Macbeth also supposed son of his sister; policy in Caith. and Orkney; death; kinsman, Moldan, maormor of Caith.; his dream of a consolidated kingdom realised.
Malcolm III, Canmore, king of Scotland; m. Ingibjorg, Thorfinn's widow; m. 2nd, St. Margaret, introduced Saxon nobility; his son Duncan II, whose descendant was Donald Ban MacWilliam.
Malcolm IV, granted half earldom of Caithness to Erlend Haraldson; defeated Somarled; his death.
Malcolm, earl of Caithness and Angus; earl of Caith. (1232-36); earl of C. as guardian of a minor, as trustee or custos; his dau. heiress, and successors.
Malise, earl of Stratherne; m. Matilda, dau. of Gibbon, earl.
Malise II, earl of Orkney and Caithness; heir of Matilda, dau. of earl Gibbon; conveyed Berridale, to Reginald More, and Reginald Chen III; descendant of the lines of Paul and Erlend.