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Gray, James

"Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time or, The Jarls and The Freskyns"


Niorfa Sound (Straits of Gibraltar).
Nisbet's Heraldry.
Norafjord in Sogn.
Normans;
Conquest;
families accepted as chiefs;
influence of, in Caithness and Sutherland.
Norman architecture;
St. Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall.
Norse mythology;
of early settlers in Britain.
Norsemen;
occupation of Caith. and Sutherland;
no women brought;
early Norse rulers;
defeated at Mortlach;
raids on Moray coast;
Freskyns appointed guardians of Moray against;
expedition against south Hebrides;
invasion of Sutherland repulsed at Embo;
law and language in Orkney and Shetland;
intermarriage with Celts;
influence of, on British law;
religion of early settlers in British Isles;
destroyed culture of St. Columba;
enslaved aborigines in their colonies;
their place-names in Scotland;
settled on coasts and lower valleys;
subdued by Scots in north;
Gaelic language adopted by;
few monuments in Scotland;
domestic and ecclesiastical buildings of wood or stone;
York Powell on;
discovery of America, and Africa.
Norse Influence on Celtic Scotland, (George Henderson).


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