CHAPTER XI.

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Scandinavian Britain, p. 62. To Orkney and Shetland they came mainly from the fjords north of Bergen.

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Oxford Essays, 1858, p. 165, Dasent, an admirable account of the Norsemen in Iceland.

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Hume Brown, History, ante.

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Scandinavian Britain, p. 35.

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See Norse Influence on Celtic Scotland (Henderson), passim; and Sutherland and the Reay Country, (Rev. Adam Gunn), chapter on "Language," p. 172.

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Viking Club, Old Lore Miscell., vol. ii, 213; vol. iii, 14, 182, 234.

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See Burnt Njal, (Dasent) for a plan and elevation of a Skali. Skelpick may be Skaill-beg, or Little Hall.

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Ruins of Saga-time (in Iceland) by Thorsteinn Erlingson, David Nutt (1899).