CHAPTER VIII.
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See Peter Clauson Undal's Translation of the lost Inga Saga, O.S., Dasent's trans., Rolls ed., pp. 234-6, from which David and John appear as joint earls in Orkney and Shetland also, on payment of a large sum, only after King Sverri's death.
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O.S., Rolls edit., p. 231.
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Scotichronicon, VIII, clxxvi.
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Fordun Gesta Annal., xxviii, Lawrie Annals, p. 397, "circa festum S. Petri ad vincula", i.e., Augt. 1. 1214. There is no evidence whatever that her name was Matilda.
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Chron. Mailros, p. 114; Lawrie, p. 395.
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Hakon Saga, c. 20.
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Do. c. 45.
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Flatey Book; Rolls edit., O.S. p. 232. Breithivellir means Broadfield.
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At Skinnet first; then, in 1239, at Dornoch even more worthily and in state.
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Flatey Book; Rolls edit. O.S., p. 232.
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Province of Cat, p. 73; see Wyntoun Chron., vii, c. 9.
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See Robertson's Index, p. xxv.
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See Scottish Annals from English Chroniclers, Alan O. Anderson, pp. 336-7, where the Chronicle of Melrose, 139, (1222) is quoted, Lib. Pluscard, vii, 9.
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Wyntoun Chron. vii, c. 9.
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Hakon Saga, c. 86.
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Do. c. 101. The Iceland Annals prove Harald's drowning.
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Hakon Saga, c. 162, 165 and 167.
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Snaekollr means Snowball. Being largely of Norse blood, he was probably a fair Viking.
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Hakon Saga, 169.
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See Tudor's Orkney and Shetland, p. 344 and p. 53, and Hakon Saga, 169-171.
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Hakon Saga, 173.
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Not gydinga. Flatey Book, iii, p. 528; Torf. Orc., ii, p. 163.
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Pope, Torfaeus (trans.), p. 184, note.
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No. 126.