r Cathal Dhu.

Swelchie (whirl-pool) near Stroma.

Sweyn;
ancestor of Gunn family;
his son, Andres;
his father, Olaf, burned at Ducansby, his mother, Asleif;
his character;
burned Frakark;
his brother, Gunni;
quarrels with earl Harold;
annual viking cruises and life described;
death at Dublin.

Sweyn Breast-rope.

Syre.

Tankerness.

Templar church of Orphir.

Thanes;
none of Moravia line in Sutherland.

Thing (parliament), in Caithness.

Thora, queen of Norway.

Thora, mother of earl St. Magnus.

Thorbiorn Klerk, grandson of Frakark;
tutor to earl Harold Maddadson;
m. Ingirid, sister of Sweyn;
his character;
burned Waltheof;
divorces Sweyn's sister;
instigated quarrel between earls in Thurso;
viking raid;
ambushed earl Ragnvald;
burnt alive;
no direct heirs.

Thorbjorn in Burrafirth, Shetland.

Thorfinn, son of Harold Maddadson;
in rebellion against Scotland;
promised as hostage to king William.

Thorfinn, a farmer, C.

Thorfinn Sigurdson, earl of Orkney and Caith.;
birth;
cr. earl of Caith. and Sutherland;
ancestor of all subsequent Norse earls;
established at Duncansby;
character;
claimed Orkney;
war with Duncan I;
at Deerness;
Turfness;
conquests in Fife;
Ragnvald Brusi-son co-earl;
raids on England;
his wife, Ingibjorg;
"king of Catanesse,";
claimed two-thirds of Orkney;
sole earl;
visited Rome;
death;
chronology;
his widow m. king Malcolm Canmore;
earl Erlend his grandson's grandson.

Thorfinn Torf-Einarson Hausa-kliufr (skull-cleaver), earl, m. Grelaud.

Thorgisl.

Thorgisl, Saga of.

Thorir Rognvaldson.

Thorir Treskegg.

Thorkel Amundson, or Fostri;
at Sandvik, Deerness, slew Einar;
and Moddan;
and Ragnvald Brusi-son.

Thorkel, son of Cathal Dhu of C.

Thorleif, Frakark's sister.

Thorolf, bishop of Orkney.

Thorsdale;
valley of Thurso river.

Thorstan the White.

Thorstein the Red, seized C. and S.;
father of Groa, who m. Duncan, maormor of Cat.

Thorstein, son of Hall O' Side.

Thurso;
the river;
earl Moddan killed at;
Ottar, jarl in;
earl Harold Maddadson seized;
earls Ragnvald and Harold reconciled;
St. Peter's church;
earls' residence.

Tighernac, The A