[Footnote 29: _Reg. Morav._ p. 139, ch. 126.]
[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 9: _O.S._, 61, 62, 63, 65, c.f. the modern phrase "a young hopeful."]
[Footnote 12: _O.S._, 69, 70, 71, 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 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 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 28: He was grandson of Hacon Paulson, a grandson of Thorfinn, and he was also a grandson of Helga, Moddan's daughter.]
[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.]
