Footnote 2: [(return)]
Robertson's Index, p. xxi.
Footnote 3: [(return)]
Hakon Saga, 245 and 307.
Footnote 4: [(return)]
Genealogie of the Earles, p. 30, and Sutherland Book, vol. ii, p. 3 No. 4; O.P., ii, 647 note. This is not the Cross now standing. See Macfarlane, Geog. Collections, vol. ii, pp. 450 and 467, where it is called Ri-crois. The story that Dornoch took its name from the slaying of this Chief with the leg of a horse is quite unfounded, for the name Durnach appears in a charter about a hundred years earlier, and has nothing to do with a "horse's hoof." Its derivation and meaning are alike obscure. Chalmers, Caledonia, v, p. 192, gives to Dornock in Dumfriesshire the derivation "Dur-nochd" or the "bare" or "naked water." Its situation is like that of Dornoch, with a wide expanse of tidal sands.
Footnote 5: [(return)]
Sutherland Book, vol. iii, p. 3, No. 4. See also Two Ancient Records of Caithness, Bannatyne Club. The bishop himself was a Canon.
Footnote 6: [(return)]
Genealogie of the Earles, pp. 6 and 31; O.P., ii, 601.
Footnote 7: [(return)]
Liber Eccles. de Scon, p. 45, No. 73. Viking Club, Sutherland and Caithness Records, No. 8, pp. 12 and 13.
Footnote 8: [(return)]
O.P., ii, p. 603. As regards the marriage of Iye Mor Mackay to the daughter of Walter de Baltroddi (Bishop), see Book of Mackay, p. 37.
Footnote 9: [(return)]
Hakon Saga, 312, 314.
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Do. 317.
Footnote 11: [(return)]
Sutherland Book, vol. 1, p. 15. Genealogie of the Earls, p. 33.