Columba, St.; Adamnan's Life of; mission to Picts, settlement in Iona; clergy removed to Dunkeld; relics removed; patron saint of Scot and Pict; his cult and culture destroyed by Norse.
Columban settlements of hermits and missionaries; Columban church; replaced by Catholic.
Columbus; discovered America long after Norsemen.
Comyn, John, m. Matilda heiress of Malcolm, earl of Angus.
Craig Carrill Broch; Roman tablets found.
Creich, owned by Hugo Freskyn; including Assynt; granted by Hugo Freskyn to Gilbert while archdeacon of Moray.
Crinan, Abthane of Dunkeld, m. Bethoc, dau. of Malcolm II.
Cromarty; northern Suter of; Norse place-names; Macbeth's property.
Curle, A.O.; early monuments of Caith. and Sutherland.
Dale, Dalar or Dalr, C.; earl Skuli slain; home of Moddan.
Dalharrold, on River Naver; belonged to Johanna.
Dalrymple's Collections, on divorce; on earl Magnus II.
Dasent, Sir G.W.; transl. _Orkneyinga Saga_, q.v.; _Oxford Essays_, q.v.; _Saga of Burnt Njal_, q.v.
David I, king of Scotland; church organisation; earldom of Caithness held of him; his tutor John, bishop of Glasgow; visited by Sweyn Asleifarson; introduced feudal barons and charters; at Duffus Castle; by education a Norman knight.
David Haraldson, earl of Orkney and Caith.; did not have earl Ragnvald's share of Caith. earldom; succeeded to a reduced territory; sole earl of Orkney; joint earl with earl John; death.
Deer; earls Ragnvald and Harald hunted red deer and reindeer in Caithness; red deer abounded in Cat.
Deerness, Mull of; sea-fight between Thorfinn and Duncan I; king Hakon's fleet passed.
Donald Ban MacWilliam; claimant of Scottish crown; his son Guthred slain; descended from Ingibjorg, widow of Thorfinn and Malcolm Canmore.
Dornoch (Durnach); supposed dedication of Cathedral; monks to be protected; owned by Hugo Freskyn; in earldom of Caithness; cathedral of St. Barr; excluded from earldom of earl David; part granted by Hugo Freskyn to Gilbert; Embo near D., Norse defeated; existed in Norse times; Durnach; cathedral lands; bishop Adam buried in; traditional origin of name.
Dougal of the Isles, in Orkney; joined Hakon's expedition.
Dovyr, tofftys de; part of Johanna's estate; from Gael. for water, identified as River and Loch Naver.