The Highlanders of Scotland - Clan Strachan Society

Scottish tribes, their territories, &c.,
14 et seq.
Sheep-farming, the evil results of its
introduction, 97, 98.
Sigurd, made larl of the Orkneys, 61 ;
with Thorstein the Red subjugates
Kateness, Sutherland, Ross
and Moray, 62; defeats Finlay
MacRuairi and overruns the
Highlands, 69 ; defeats the
Highland army at Duncansbay
Head, 70 ; retires before Malcolm,
Maormor of Moray, 70.
Silures, o.
Siol Alpine, 331-346, 418.
Cuinn, 196-246.
Eachern, 252, 412.
Gillevray, 247-251, 411.
O'Cain, 312-317, 416.
Skene, Dr., Biographical Sketch of,
xiii. ; paper on Skene in
" Inverness Gael Soc. Trans-
actions," 403.
Someried, 197, 409.
Stokes, Dr., 390.
Strathclyde Britons, 41, 403.
Stratherne, the headquarters of the
Picts, 12.
Succession, Rules of, 25-29 ;oassm, 39,
381-402 jxissim.
Sudrland, no High land clans connected
with, 368-370.
Superstitions of the Highlanders, 132
et serj.
Tacitus, 4, 24.
Talorcan MacCongusa, 23, 31, 32.
INDEX 427
Talorcan , Tolarcan, Tolarg MacDrostan,
KiDg of Atholl, 27, 32, 38.
Tanistry, 104 et seq., 406.
Thorfinn, Earl of Orkney, 54 ; regains
possession of Caithness, 63 de-
;
feats Moddan in Caithness, and
the Scottish King in the Pentland
Firth, 72; routs the Scottish
army, and slays the King near
Beauly, 73 et seq., 405 ; his death
79 his ; power exaggerated in
the Sagas, 405.
Thorkell, 72, 73.
Thorstein the Red, in alliance with
Sigurd conquers northern main-
land, and retains possession ;
his expulsion and death, 63, 68,
404.
Tighernac, his Annals, 2, 13, 17, 23, 25.
Toiseach, 114 et seq., 406.
Topography of Pictland, Gaelic, 47-50;
404.
Vacomagi and Caledonii, their relative
positions in Ptolemy's time
and the tenth century, 64.
Vecturiones, Southern Picts, Piccar-
dach, Pictores, 9, 22, 23, 24;
Vecturiones, ( ? ) Verturiones,
Fortren, 402.
Vikings, 60.
Welsh Annals, 3, 15.
William of Orange, 93.
ZiMMER, Professor, 388.
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