Unes, or Little Ferry.

  Uphall, History and Antiquities of, (J.  Primrose).

  Valentia.

  Valthiof, brother of Sweyn.

  Varangian Guard.

  Vallich, Loch, or Bealach.

  Vikings;
    origin;
    settlers as well as raiders;
    settlements place-names, including the;
    intermarriage, influence;
    held and named most of coasts and valleys of Cat and Ross;
    survival of place and personal names;
    Valhalla influence;
    ships;
    traders.

  Viking Age, The, (Du Chaillu).

  Viking expeditions.

  Viking Society for Northern Research.  Publications: 
    Saga-Rook (Proceedings), The Round Church and Earl’s Bu of Orphir;
    Year-Book, 150 (ns. 24, 28);
    Old-Lore Miscell. of O.S.C. and S., q.v.;
    Orkney and Shetland Records, q.v.;
    Caithness and Sutherland Records, q.v.;
    Ruins of Saga-Time, q.v.

  Wales.

  Walter de Baltroddi, bishop.

  Waltheof, earl.

  Wardships, granted by Crown.

  Wemund (monk).

  Wergeld, for Halfdan;
    Olaf Hrolfson.

  Wick;
    earl Harald Ungi defeated;
    earls’ residence.

  Widow.

  Will.  Newburgh Chron.

  William the Lion;
    charter of Strabrock;
    confirmed charter in Sutherland;
    service of Wm. Freskyn;
    grant to Gaufrid Blundus;
    crowned;
    first conquest of Caithness, Sutherland granted to Hugo Freskyn;
    with army in Ross;
    war against Donald Ban MacWilliam;
    defeated Thorfinn, Harold’s son;
    subdued Sutherland and Caithness;
    conferred half of earldom of C. on Harald Ungi;
    conferred it on Ragnvald Gudrodson;
    came to terms with Harald;
    war with thanes of Ross;
    the dau. of John as hostage;
    treaty with John, Caithness;
    death.

  William, son of Gillebride, uncle of Magnus II.

  William FitzDuncan, son of Duncan II.

  William the Old, bishop of Orkney;
    at Egilsay;
    went to the east.

  William the Wanderer, transl.  W.G.  Collingwood; Thorfinn, “king of
    Catanesse,”.

  Wolves, in Cat.

  Worsae;
    The Prehistory of the North.

  Wrath, Cape.

  Wyntoun’s Chronicle.

  Wyre, Vigr, now called Veira;
    Cobbie Row’s Castle.

  Yell Sound.

  Yorkshire ridings, trithings.

  Yuletide;
    feasts.