CHAPTER XI.
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Scandinavian Britain, p. 62. To Orkney and Shetland they came mainly from the fjords north of Bergen.
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Oxford Essays, 1858, p. 165, Dasent, an admirable account of the Norsemen in Iceland.
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Hume Brown, History, ante.
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Scandinavian Britain, p. 35.
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See Norse Influence on Celtic Scotland (Henderson), passim; and Sutherland and the Reay Country, (Rev. Adam Gunn), chapter on "Language," p. 172.
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Viking Club, Old Lore Miscell., vol. ii, 213; vol. iii, 14, 182, 234.
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See Burnt Njal, (Dasent) for a plan and elevation of a Skali. Skelpick may be Skaill-beg, or Little Hall.
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Ruins of Saga-time (in Iceland) by Thorsteinn Erlingson, David Nutt (1899).
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See his Essay with plans in the Saga Book of the Viking Club, vol. iii, pp. 174-216.
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i.e. Broadfield; see O.S., Rolls edition, p. 232, formerly Brathwell.
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Mousa in Shetland was twice so used, by two honeymoon pairs. See Tudor, O. and S., p. 481.
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O.P., vol. ii, 758.
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O.S., 84, 100 and 22; 58, 78, 100, 101, 102, 113, and pp. 226, 227, 228, in Rolls edition. Hjalmundal is the strath, not the village of Helmsdale.
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We find in Latheron in Caithness "Golsary" the shieling of Gol. Platagall, see O.P., ii, p. 680.
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The bodily form often follows that of fathers of a fair race, it is said.
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See p. 21.
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Frontispiece to vol. 1 of Du Chaillu's Viking Age.
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See Scotland in Early Christian Times, Dr. Joseph Anderson's Rhind Lectures in 1879, pp. 141-2; Scandinavian Britain, p. 29.
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Saga of Erik the Red and St. Olaf's Saga. See Orig. Islandicae, vol. ii, Bk. v, pp. 588-756 "Explorers."
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Yet see the Romance of Guillaume le Roi, Chroniques Anglo-Normandes, vol. iii, Francisque Michel.
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As witness the Seaforths (Sæ-fjorthr) of the 51st Division in France.
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Vol. 1, p. 45. See also Burton's History of Scotland, vol. i, chapter xi, and vol. ii, pp. 14 and 15.