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"Gilchrist" not "Gillebride" all through this quotation.
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Gilchrist, however, died in 1204.
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Not, we think, of Erlend, but of Paul. But South Caithness probably belonged to the Erlend share, i.e., Latheron and Wick parishes.
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Sutherland Book, vol. 1, p. 12, note.
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Robertson's Index, p. 62.
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Reg. Morav., p. 341. O.P., vol. ii, 709.
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Can the Mallard or Mallart be Abhainn na mala airde, "the river of the high brow"? Another interpretation, Abhain na malairte, "river of the excambion" has been suggested.
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Achness—Ach-an-eas or the field of the waterfall, old Gaelic Achanedes.
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Marriages, however, of persons of unsuitable ages were freely made in these old times.