[113]. Ibid. v. 605.
[114]. These islands had been ceded by Norway to Scotland in 1266 on condition of an annual payment of 100 marks, which at this time had fallen into arrear for 26 years.
[115]. His words imply that it was by request of the Orkneymen themselves that Adalbert sent them preachers “extremi venerant Islani, Gronlani, et Orchadum legati petentes ut prædicatores illuc dirigeret, quod et fecit.”
[116]. Keyser, Den Norske Kirkes Historie, i. 158; Torfæus, i. 160; Munch, Det Norske Folks Historie, ii. p. 216; Grub’s Eccles. Hist. i. 252.
[117]. Twysden, Decem Scriptores, pp. 1709-13.
[118]. Printed in the Notes and Illustrations to the Scala Cronica (Maitland Club), p. 234.
[119]. Monasticon Anglicanum, vi. p. 1186.
[120]. Flor. Wig. Chron. Monum. Hist. Britann. p. 644.
[121]. The name Christ’s Church, says Munch, was only given to a cathedral church.
[122]. Sir Henry Dryden’s Notices of Ancient Churches in Orkney, in the Orcadian, 1867.