Cobbie Row Castle, in, 100;
the gaedingar of the earl of Orkney, 100;
king Hakon at, 124;
and died in Kirkwall, in the palace of bishop, 127;
mortgaged to Scotland, 128;
adopted English with many Norse words, 132;
old Norse ballad sung in 18th cent., 30;
proposed Scot. conquest after Norse reverse at Largs, 155 (n. 13), 156 (n. 20);
annular eclipse of sun in 1263, 125, 155 (n. 14);
Orkney and Shetland colonised mainly from the fjords north of Bergen, 156 (n. 1);