Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time; or, The Jarls and The Freskyns. Gray James Martin

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       James Gray

      Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time; or, The Jarls and The Freskyns

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4064066212575

Table of Contents

       MAP OF SUTHERLAND AND CAITHNESS [Originally a fold-out map]

       SUTHERLAND AND CAITHNESS

       IN SAGA-TIME

       THE JARLS AND THE FRESKYNS.

       CHAPTER I.

       Introductory.

       CHAPTER II.

       The Pict and the Northman.

       CHAPTER III.

       The Early Norse Jarls.

       CHAPTER IV.

       Thorfinn—Earl and Jarl.

       CHAPTER V.

       Paul and Erlend, Hakon and Magnus.

       CHAPTER VI.

       The Moddan Family—Jarls Harald and Paul and Ragnvald.

       CHAPTER VII.

       Harold Maddadson and the Freskyns.

       CHAPTER VIII.

       Earls David and John.

       CHAPTER IX.

       The Succession to the Caithness Earldom.

       CHAPTER X.

       King Hakon and the North of Scotland.

       CHAPTER XI.

       Results and Conclusion.

       NOTES

       NOTES

       APPENDIX.

       EARLY PEDIGREE OF THE FRESKYNS.

       INDEX.

       HYPERLINKED INDEX.

MAP OF SUTHERLAND AND CAITHNESS[Originally a fold-out map]

       Table of Contents

SUTHERLAND AND CAITHNESS

       Table of Contents

IN SAGA-TIME

       Table of Contents

      OR,

      THE JARLS AND THE FRESKYNS.

       Table of Contents

CHAPTER I.

       Table of Contents

Introductory.

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      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 on its history, as have survived, so as to form a connected account, from the Scottish point of view, of the Norse occupation of most of the more fertile parts of Sutherland and Caithness from its beginning about 870 until its close, when these counties were freed from Norse influence, and Man and the Hebrides were incorporated in the kingdom of Scotland by treaty with Norway in 1266.

      References to the authorities mentioned above and to later works bearing on the subject have been inserted in the hope that others, more leisured and more competent, may supplement them by further research, and convert those portions of the narrative which are at present largely conjectural from story into history.

      What manner of men the prehistoric races which in early ages successively inhabited the northern end of the Scottish mainland may have been, we can now hardly imagine. Dr. Joseph Anderson's classical volumes¹ on Scotland in Pagan Times tell us something, indeed all that can now be known, of some of them, and in the Royal Commission's² Reports and Inventories of the Early Monuments of Sutherland and of Caithness respectively, Mr. Curle has classified their visible remains, and may, let us hope, with the aid of legislation, save those relics from the roadmaker or dykebuilder.