Pentland Firth.

  Perth;
    court held (1260);
    treaty of.

  Peter, St.

  Peter’s church, St., Duffus.

  Peter’s church, St., Thurso.

  Peter’s pence.

  Petty, William Freskyn of.

  Picts;
    settlements of hermits and missionaries;
    chronicles;
    Pictish church replaced by Catholic church;
    driven eastward and northward by Scots;
    seven provinces;
    P. and Northmen;
    hunters and fishers;
    brochs for defence, arms, etc.;
    clans;
    non-seafaring Celts;
    never conquered by Romans;
    did not have mastery of sea in Norse times;
    Christian missions and Columban church;
    viking invasion;
    Pictish language superseded by Gaelic;
    never dispossessed of upper parts of valleys throughout Norse
      occupation;
    conquered by Scots;
    language, “P” Celtic;
    Picts of Athole, Moray, Ross and Cat;
    Pictish church and Pictish province of Ross and Moray resisted
      Scottish civilisation;
    Normans accepted as chiefs;
    their Christianity;
    Norse drove clergy from Orkney, N.E.  Caithness, coasts of
      Sutherland and sea-board of Ross and Moray;
    Norse attacks on Picts, effect of;
    their lands seized by Norse.

  Pictish Nation and Church, The;
    (Rev. A.B.  Scott), Pictish navy.

  Pictland;
    St. Ninian’s mission;
    St. Kentigern’s mission.

  Picts and Scots, Chronicle of the;
    origin of brochs;
    (Tighernac);
    the Pictish navy.

  Place-names;
    Norse p.n. preserved;
    near brochs.

  Plantula, dau. of Malcolm II, m.  Sigurd, earl of Orkney.

  Platagall, “flat of the stranger,” old name of Golspie.

  Pluscardensis, Liber.

  Pope, Alexander, of Reay;
    a tradition of Snaekoll’s return;
    transl.  Torf.

  Popes;
    Innocent III, letter.

  Powell, York.

  Prehistoric races.

  Primrose J.;
    Hist, and Antiq. of the Parish of Uphall.

  Rafn the Lawman;
    chief of stewards of Caithness;
    remained as lawman;
    at bishop Adam’s burning;
    in derivation of Dunrobin—­Drum-Rafn.

  Ragnhild, dau. of Eric Bloody-axe.

  Ragnhild, dau. of Eric Stagbrellir;
    sister of earl Harald Ungi;
    m. (2) Gunni;
    by whom she had a son, Snaekoll;
    her children the only heirs of Ragnvald and of Moddan;
    at home near Loch Naver;
    m. (1) Lifolf Baldpate;
    Johanna of Strathnaver, her sole descendant after 1232;
    held Moddan lands.

  Ragnvald, jarl of Maeri;
    made first Norse earl of Orkney;
    slain in Norway.