[394]. One of the MS. copies of the saga has “Rögnvaldzeyiar.”
[395]. Harald Hardradi, son of Sigurd Syr, who was slain in the battle of Stamford Bridge. See p. [47].
[396]. See the account of her elopement with Earl Erlend Ungi in chap. [xcii]., and of her relations with Gunni, Olaf’s son, chap. [lxxxvii].
[397]. This was Malcolm the Maiden, the grandson, and not the son, of King David I.
[398]. Malcolm the Maiden.
[399]. Malcolm the Maiden was twelve years old when he came to the throne. Perhaps the Saga-writer meant that he had then been nine winters king.
[400]. The Mull of Deerness, or Moulhead of Deerness, as it is called in the maps, in the north-east of the Mainland, Orkney.
[401]. Skeggbjarnarstad was probably a homestead on Skebro Head, in Rousay. The old form of Skebro Head might be Skeggbjarnarhöfdi.
[402]. Hofsness, probably Huipness, the most northerly point of Stronsay.