Orkney.
Sturlunga Saga, Prolegomena by Vigfusson.
Sudreys (see also Hebrides and Southern Isles).
Sutherland (Sudrland);
part of ancient Pictish province of Cait, q.v.;
its boundaries;
outwardly much the same now as in Pictish times;
deer abounded;
Pictish clergy driven from coasts by Norse;
subdued by Thorfinn;
Norse earls;
seized by earl Hakon;
Liot Nidingr;
much owned by Moddan family;
Norse steadily lost hold of;
Celts kept their land;
Norse driven outwards and eastward;
family of Freskyn de Moravia;
Norse occupied fertile parts;
freed from Norse influence in 1266;
inventory of ancient monuments;
writing began in 12th cent.;
Orkneyinga Saga only record before 12th cent.;
earlier notices;
land and people at arrival of Norsemen, all owned by Hugo Freskyn;
earl Harald Slettmali seated in;
seldom visited by earl Paul;
Frakark burnt alive;
Strath Helmsdale;
Sweyn's raid;
earl Ragnvald at his daughter's wedding;
children of Eric Stagbrellir;
William de Sutherlandia;
Mackay settlement;
Innes family;
part of old earldom of Caithness;
granted to Hugo Freskyn;
excluded from grant of half of earldom of Caithness to Harald Ungi;
subdued by king William;
services of Freskyn family;
lordship of Sutherland;
erected into an earldom after 10th Oct. 1237;
escaped attack by king Hakon;
Norse adopted Gaelic language;
Norse place-names;
part settled by Mackays;
Freskyns introduced into;
inhabitants of Gael-Norse blend;
no thanes of Moravia line in;
horns of reindeer or elk found;
see also Orkney and Caithness.
Sutherland, earls of;
fictitious earls, Alane, Walter and Robert;
Freskyn de Moravia ancestor of;
William Freskyn, first earl;
William (1275), litigation with bishop;
case of Elizabeth, claimant of earldom.
See also Freskyn.
Sutherland, Genealogie of the Earles of, (Sir R. Gordon);
on Alane, thane of S.;
treated as fiction;
boundaries of Sutherland.
Sutherland Book;
William MacFrisgyn omitted;
on Johanna of Strathnaver;
references.
Sutherland and the Reay Country, (A. Gunn).
Sutherland, Inventory of the Monuments in.
Sutherland;
duke of.
Sverrir, king of Norway.
Sverri's Saga.
Swart Ironhead.
Swart Kell, o
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