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See Tudor, Orkney and Shetland, pp. 35 and 375.
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See note to Hjaltalin and Goudie O.S., p. 107, where Atjokl's-bakki is suggested as an emendation, and also p. 115.
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Maiming made a Northman impossible.
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O.S., 81.
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O.S., 81.
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O.S., 82.
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Guides would be easily got from Elgin. For the MacHeths, constantly fled to the wilds of Cat for refuge, before, in 1210 or later, they settled there, getting land in Durness after 1263.
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i.e. The Minch. It is said that he was the ancestor of the Macaulays of the Lewis, but Macaulay means son of Olaf, not of Olvir.
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O.S., 88. Earl Waltheof must have been a neighbour of Freskyn in Moray.