Reay Country, by the Rev. Adam Gunn. Glasgow, John
Mackay, Celtic Monthly Office, 1897.

Sverri's Saga. Translation by J. Sephton. London, David Nutt, 1899.

Tacitus--Agricola.

Thorgisl's Saga in Origines Islandicae (as above).

Viking Club. Caithness and Sutherland Records.} London
Viking Club. Old Lore Miscellany. } 29 Ashburnham
Viking Society. Saga Books, &c. } Mansions, Chelsea

William the Wanderer, by W.G. Collingwood. G.C. Brown Langham & Co.,
47 Great Russell Street, London, W.C., 1904.

Worsaae. Danes and Norwegians. London, John Murray, 1852.

Worsaae. The Prehistory of the North. London, Truebner, 1886.

Wyntoun's Chronicle. Edinburgh, Edmonston & Douglas, 1872.

[Footnote 1: An excellent Bibliography of Caithness, by Mr. John
Mowat, was published by W. Rae, Wick, in 1909, and of Caithness and
Sutherland by The Viking Club, 1910, by the same author.]

[Footnote 2: The Capitals and abbreviations placed in brackets after
certain authorities, give their initial letters and short titles,
(e.g. (O.S.) Orkneyinga Saga), as used in the notes at the end of this
volume.]

Early Sources of Scottish History, A.D. 500 to 1286, by Alan O.
Anderson. Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh.

NOTE.--Since this little book was printed, the above great work
has appeared. To the student of the Norse invasions its value is
inestimable.

[Transcriber's note: The following errata have been applied to the
text.]

_ERRATA._

Page 1, line 13, for "they" read "Man."
" 28, line 9, for "or" read "of."
" 40, line 23, for "Kundason" read "Hundason."
" 42, line 24, after "note" reference[14] omitted.
" 50, line 17, for "mainland of" read "Unst in."
" 65, line 35, for "burnings" read "revenges."
" 65, line 37, for "burnt" read "killed."
" 87, line 18, for "Earl Ragnvald" read "Jarl Ragnvald."
" 104, lines 4 and 5, for "Magnus' great-grandson's granddaughter's
husband" read "Magnus' granddaughter's great-grandson."
" 117, line 16, omit "a child of."

SUTHERLAND AND CAITHNESS IN SAGA-TIME
OR,
THE JARLS AND THE FRESKYNS.

CHAPTER I.

_Introductory._

In the following pages an attempt is made to fit together facts
derived, on the one hand, from those portions of the Orkneyinga, St.
Magnus and Hakonar Sagas which relate to the extreme north end of the
mainland of Scotland, and, on the other hand, from such scanty English
and Scottish records, bearing o