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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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