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Paplay, Thora's home, was probably in Firth Parish in mainland, near Finstown. Short Magnus Saga, c. 18, not "twenty," but twenty-one years after his death. See O.S., c. 60. But vide Tudor O. and S., pp. 251-2 and 348. See also Anderson's Introduction, p. xc, to Hjaltalin and Goudie's O.S. contra.
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Viking Club Miscellany, vol. i, pp. 43-65 (J. Stefansson), but the authorship is disputed.
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O.S., 47
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O.S., 48. Both Hakon and Magnus were about five-sixths Norse.
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O.S., c. 55; Magnus Saga, 30.
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O.S., 56.
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See Reg. Dunfermelyn, No. 1 and 23 (p. 14); Lawrie, Scot. Charters, pp. 100, 179; Viking Club, Caithness and Sutherland Records, p. 18, the note to which seems correct. "The Earl" was Ragnvald, who ruled as Harold's guardian at this time, in Caithness also. Durnach is now Dornoch.
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Reg. Dunfermelyn, No. 24 (p. 14). Supposed to be the Huchterhinche of St. Gilbert's Charter to the Cathedral of Durnach. Sutherland Book, iii, p. 4.
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Dunbar, Scot. Kings, pp. 51, 60, 61, 63. The name is spelt "Fretheskin" also.
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Possibly 1120.