12, note.]
[Footnote 17: _Robertson's Index_, p. 62.]
[Footnote 18: _Reg. Morav._, p. 341. _O.P._, vol. ii, 709.]
[Footnote 19: Can the Mallard or Mallart be _Abhainn na mala airde_,
"the river of the high brow"? Another interpretation, _Abhain na
malairte_, "river of the excambion" has been suggested.]
[Footnote 20: Achness--_Ach-an-eas_ or the field of the waterfall, old
Gaelic _Achanedes_.]
[Footnote 21: Marriages, however, of persons of unsuitable ages were
freely made in these old times.]
[Footnote 22: Norse jarldoms were not given to females, but the
jarldom of Orkney was, failing sons, given to the sons of daughters of
preceding jarls, such as Ragnvald, son of Gunnhild, and Harald Ungi,
son of Jarl Ragnvald's daughter.]
[Footnote 23: _Reg. Morav._, 215, 216; _O.P._, vol. ii, p. 486.]
[Footnote 24: _O.P._, ii, p. 482. Euphamia or Eufemia is a Ross family
name for centuries. _Reg. Morav._, p. 333.]
[Footnote 25: _Bain_, vol. 1, year 1258-9.]
[Footnote 26: _St. Andrew's_, pp. 346 and 347; and for the charter see
_Reg. Morav._, p. 138.]
[Footnote 27: _Reg. Morav._, p. xxxvi. We do not lay stress upon this
argument from the endowment of _two_ chaplains; but it may import that
Freskin died a violent death, unshriven.
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