unsuitable for trees in Ness, 141 (II n. 3);

west uninhabited in Viking times, 8;

deer, etc., abounded, 8, 141 (II n. 4);

Athelstan's naval demonstration, 22;

held by earls of Orkney, 22;

Duncan the maormor, 15, 24, 25, 34, 35, 36;

Picts and Norse, 38;

map, 110;

Pictish clergy driven from north-east by Norse, 130;

land and people on arrival of Norse, 6, et seq.