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Leod-ulf ; the heraldic proofs which exist at Dunvegan, a 

 stone panel, ascribed to the seventeenth century, bearing 

 the arms of Man* ; and most important of all, the 

 unbroken tradition in the family of Macleod of Macleod ; 

 all bear strongly against the Celtic theory. 



The only Leod known to early Scottish history is a 

 lay abbot of Brechin, whose son, " Gylandrys MacLod," 

 a man of some consequence, figures in charters of 1227 

 and 1232. Unless, however, we suppose that this Leod, 

 whose estates were forfeited, settled in the Hebrides when 

 Malcolm IV. dispersed his troublesome subjects in Moray, 

 there is nothing to connect the abbot of Brechin with 

 the great clan of Lewis and Harris. On the whole, the 

 tradition of the Macleods, which attributes their origin to 

 Olave the Black, affords the only theory that appears to 

 be tenable. 



Paul McTyre, a famous freebooter who lived in the 

 second half of the fourteenth century, is stated to have 

 been a great-grandson of Olave the Black and of 

 Christina, daughter of the Earl of Ross.f The father of 

 Paul was Leod MacGilleandrais who, from his ferocious 

 disposition, was appropriately nicknamed " Tyre " or " the 

 Wolf." Leod was the chief instrument in the execution 

 at Inverness, in 1346, of Kenneth Mackenzie of Kintail 

 (" Coinneach na Sroine ") whose son Murdoch (" Black 

 Murdoch of the Cave") fled, when a youth, for refuge, 

 to his uncle, Macleod of Lewis. Returning some years 

 afterwards, with 120 Lewismen, Murdoch met and slew 

 Leod MacGilleandrais at Featha Leoid, or Leod's Bog, 

 in Kenlochewe. The only member of Leod's party who 

 escaped was his son Paul, the notorious cateran of later 

 years. Paul's daughter married Walter Ross of Balna- 

 gown, and her dowry consisted of the lands of Strath- 

 carron, Strathoykell, and Westray. 



The three legs were to use an Irishism the arms of Man as early 



5 the fourteenth century. They represented the svastica which the Christian 



cross superseded in Scandinavian countries. Previous to the fourteenth 



century, the arms of Man were a galley, which figures prominently in the 



arms of the Hebridean clans. 



t The Earls of Ross, p. 8, by F. N. Reid. 



