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th of the Humber, or in the Wirral in Cheshire. See _Scandinavian Britain_, pp. 131-4 where it is located on the west coast, and on this coast it probably was.] [Footnote 13: See _Genealogie of the Earles_, pp. 1 and 2, as to the "boundaries of Southerland."] [Footnote 14: _F.B._, vol. i, pp. 221-9. See Trans. of _O.S._, Hjaltalin and Goudie, App. pp. 203-212. See also _St. Olaf's Saga_, c. cix. See also generally Vigfusson's _Prolegomena to Sturlunga Saga_, Introduction, p. xcii, vol. i.] [Footnote 15: The "scurvy Kalf" and "tree-bearded Thorir."] [Footnote 16: _O.S._, ch. 6, 7.] [Footnote 17: _O.S._, ch. 8, on Rinar's Hill. Tudor, _O. and S._, p. 364.] [Footnote 18: _O.S._, ch. 80. But see _Heimskringla_, Saga Library, i, 96 and _St. Olaf's Saga_, ch. cv and cvii.] [Footnote 19: See _Blackwood's Magazine_, April 1920; an able and interesting article intituled _A Branch of the Family_, by J. Storer Clouston.] [Footnote 20: _F.B._, ch. 183, 184.] [Footnote 21: Tudor, _Orkney and Shetland_, p. 336.] [Footnote 22: _Torf. Orc._, p. 25, "facile de alieno largientis."] [Footnote 23: _F.B._, 115. _O.P._, 783. _F.B._, 186. _O.S._, 10, 11. _O.S._, 8. Skene, _Celtic Scotland_, i, 374-9.] [Footnote 24: Dalrymple, _Collections_, p. 99.] [Footnote 25: Viking Society, _Orkney and Shetland Folk_, 1914, p. 5.] [Footnote 26: _O.P._, (Canisbay), vol. ii, 794, 816.] [Footnote 27: _O.S._, 11.] [Footnote 28: _B.N._, c. 85.] [Footnote 29: _O.S._, 12. _F.B._, 187. The _F.B._ makes the scene of this battle Skitten Moor.] [Footnote 30: _F.B._, 187.] [Footnote 31: _Thorgisl_, I, 4. (_Orig. Islandicae_, ii, p. 635.) In _The Old Statistical Account_ (Tongue) there is a tradition of such a fight on Eilean nan Gall at the entrance to the Bay of Tongue, then in Caithness.] [Footnote 32: p. 23.] [Footnote 33: See Sir Wm. Fraser's _Book of Sutherland_, and Pedigree in Appendix. There is a Craig Amlaiph (Olaf) above Torboll and Cambusmore (both in Cat) near the Mound in Sudrland. There were no Thanes of the De Moravia line in Sutherland.] [Footnote 34: See _The Pictish Nation and Church_, pp. 129-32, and 341.] [Footnote 35: See _Darratha-liod_, published by the Viking Club, 1910.] [Footnote 36: _Burnt Njal_, c. 151.] [Footnote 37: Iceland accepted Christianity by a vote of its Thing in 1000 A.D. "Blood" often fell in Iceland; after a volcanic eruption, rain was tinged with red.] [Footnote 3
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