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Reg. Morav., pp. 88, 89, 99, 101, 333. Knighted 1215, was earl in 1226, founded the Abbey of Fearn before 1230, died about 1251.
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Robertson's Index, p. xxi.
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Hakon Saga, 245 and 307.
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Genealogie of the Earles, p. 30, and Sutherland Book, vol. ii, p. 3 No. 4; O.P., ii, 647 note. This is not the Cross now standing. See Macfarlane, Geog. Collections, vol. ii, pp. 450 and 467, where it is called Ri-crois. The story that Dornoch took its name from the slaying of this Chief with the leg of a horse is quite unfounded, for the name Durnach appears in a charter about a hundred years earlier, and has nothing to do with a "horse's hoof." Its derivation and meaning are alike obscure. Chalmers, Caledonia, v, p. 192, gives to Dornock in Dumfriesshire the derivation "Dur-nochd" or the "bare" or "naked water." Its situation is like that of Dornoch, with a wide expanse of tidal sands.
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Sutherland Book, vol. iii, p. 3, No. 4. See also Two Ancient Records of Caithness, Bannatyne Club. The bishop himself was a Canon.
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Genealogie of the Earles, pp. 6 and 31; O.P., ii, 601.
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Liber Eccles. de Scon, p. 45, No. 73. Viking Club, Sutherland and Caithness Records, No. 8, pp. 12 and 13.
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O.P., ii, p. 603. As regards the marriage of Iye Mor Mackay to the daughter of Walter de Baltroddi (Bishop), see Book of Mackay, p. 37.
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Hakon Saga, 312, 314.
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Do. 317.
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Sutherland Book, vol. 1, p. 15. Genealogie of the Earls, p. 33.
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Hakon Saga, 319.
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Hakon Saga, 318. As to the hostages and their expenses see Compot. Camer. 1-31. From additions to Hakon's Saga, Rolls edition, it appears that Caithness was also fined and an army sent there by the king of Scotland with a view to the conquest of Orkney.
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Hakon Saga, 319. The calculation was made by Sir David Brewster.
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Also called Port Droman. Possibly Hals-eyar-vik = neck-island-bay.
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Hakon Saga, 318.
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Hakon Saga, 327.
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There is a tradition that Hakon slaughtered cattle on Lechvuaies, a rock in Loch Erriboll.
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Hakon Saga, 328-331. Goafiord—Eilean Hoan at the entrance to Loch Erriboll still retains the name.
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See Tudor, Orkney and Shetland, p. 307. What happened to Earl Magnus III, who in July 1263 had been obliged to join his overlord, King Hakon, and sail with him from Bergen? The Orkneymen were far from Norway, but dangerously close to Scotland. Their jarl had large possessions in Caithness, which he feared to lose if he made war on the Scottish king. Magnus therefore "stayed behind" in Orkney, and never went to Largs, but probably went to the Scottish king. Caithness first suffered from levies of cattle and provisions at the hands of Hakon, and afterwards from fines levied and hostages taken by the Scottish King, who sent an army, no doubt under the Chens and Federeths and others, to threaten Orkney and hold Caithness and levy the fine. Dugald, king of the Sudreys, intercepted the fine, and disappeared. Orkney had a Norse garrison, and the Scottish army never went to Orkney, Magnus was reconciled to Alexander III, and after the Treaty of Perth, in 1267, was reconciled also to King Magnus of Norway, on terms that he should hold Orkney of him and his successors, but that Shetland should remain a direct appanage of the Norse Crown, as it had been ever since Harold Maddadson's punishment in 1195. (See Munch's History of Norway; and Torfaeus Orcades, p. 172; and King Magnus Saga, Rolls edition of Hakon's Saga, pp. 374-7).