_F.B._, 187. The _F.B._ makes the scene of
this battle Skitten Moor.]
[Footnote 30: _F.B._, 187.]
[Footnote 31: _Thorgisl_, I, 4. (_Orig. Islandicae_, ii, p. 635.) In
_The Old Statistical Account_ (Tongue) there is a tradition of such a
fight on Eilean nan Gall at the entrance to the Bay of Tongue, then in
Caithness.]
[Footnote 32: p. 23.]
[Footnote 33: See Sir Wm. Fraser's _Book of Sutherland_, and Pedigree
in Appendix. There is a Craig Amlaiph (Olaf) above Torboll and
Cambusmore (both in Cat) near the Mound in Sudrland. There were no
Thanes of the De Moravia line in Sutherland.]
[Footnote 34: See _The Pictish Nation and Church_, pp. 129-32, and
341.]
[Footnote 35: See _Darratha-liod_, published by the Viking Club,
1910.]
[Footnote 36: _Burnt Njal_, c. 151.]
[Footnote 37: Iceland accepted Christianity by a vote of its Thing in
1000 A.D. "Blood" often fell in Iceland; after a volcanic eruption,
rain was tinged with red.]
[Footnote 38: Tudor, _O. and S._, p. 20.]
[Footnote 39: Rods used for dividing and pressing downwards.]
[Footnote 40: See _Scandinavian Britain_ (Collingwood), p. 256-7,
where Mr. Gilbert Goudie's _Antiquities of Shetland_ is referred to.
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