Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 243 pages of information about Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time.

Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 243 pages of information about Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time.

  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, or 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.

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