nitive _s_.
Porland seems used as a general name of the earldom, perhaps connected
with the strange name Pomona, still used for mainland, the largest of
the Orkney islands. Frisland the particular Fara islands, or one of
them.--E.

[3] Sorany or Sorani, of which Sinclair is said to have been duke or lord,
Mr Forster considers to have been the Sodor-oe, or southern islands of
the Norwegians, or those now called the Western Islands; and traces
the corruption from the Norwegian plural _Suder-oer_ contracted
_Soroer_, varied _Soroen_ and transmuted to _Sorani_. All this may be
possible; but it does not appear in Scots history that the Sinclairs
ever held the Western Islands, and certainly not at this period:
Sorani ought therefore to be looked for in Caithness; or it may
possibly refer to _Roslin_ near Edinburgh, which belonged to the
family of Sinclair.--E.

[4] By this latter distinction, Zeno probably means a decked vessel.--E.

[5] It is hardly possible to mention all the little islands, and the places
situated on the largest of the Orcadian Islands, which by the ancients
was called Pomona, and on account of its size, is likewise called
Mainland, also _Hross-ey_, i.e. _Gross-ey_, or large island. The town
was called _Kirkiu-og_ or the harbour near the church, now called by
the Scots, Kirkwall.--Forst.

In this note Mr Forster wanders from the subject in hand, and his
observations have no reference to the present expedition. _Ledovo_ is
probably the Island of Lewis, and _Ilofe_ may possibly be Hay, though
that conjecture would lead them too far to the south.--E.

[6] _Sudero_, or _Suder-oe_, might mean the Western Islands so called by
the Norwegians; but certainly here means some bay of Sutherland, as
they here met the troops of Sinclair, who had marched by land. The
town of _Sanestol_ is quite inexplicable. Though Mr Forster supposes
it to have been the cluster of islands called Schant, or Shanti-oer,
which he thinks is here corrupted into Sanestol: But, if correct in
our opinion, that they must have been on the main land of Scotland,
his conjecture must be erroneous. These conquests could be nothing
more than predatory, incursions, strangely exaggerated.--E.

[7] This is a very early mention of salted fish, yet within the lifetime of
William Beukels, the supposed inventor of the art of pickli