Cait, or Cat, Pictish province of, (now Caithness and Sutherland, q.v.),
in three parts, (1) Ness, (2) Strathnavern, and (3) Sudrland;
description of land;
unsuitable for trees in Ness;
west uninhabited in Viking times;
deer, etc., abounded;
Athelstan's naval demonstration;
held by earls of Orkney;
Duncan the maormor;
Picts and Norse;
map;
Pictish clergy driven from north-east by Norse;
land and people on arrival of Norse.
Cat, maormors of;
Duncan, or Dungall;
Moldan or Moddan.
Caithness (Ness), part of the ancient province of Cat, q.v.;
Norse occupied fertile parts;
ancient monuments;
writing;
_Orkneyinga Saga_ only record before 12th cent.;
earlier notices and later records;
earldom claimed by Sigurd Hlodverson;
Skuli Thorfinnson cr. earl;
C. people in Iceland;
sea battle between Ulf and Helgi;
Moddan, earl of C.;
his expedition to;
Norse earls;
Thorfinn returns to, after Scottish conquests;
"king of Catanesse," in "William the Wanderer";
St. Magnus;
seized by earl Hakon;
earl Magnus favoured in;
earldom conferred on Ragnvald Gudrodson;
much of owned by Moddan's family;
Norse steadily lost hold on C.
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