INDEX. 



611 



Godred Crovan, King of Man and the 

 Hebrides, 17 ; his conquest of the 

 Hebrides, 18 ; his death in Islay, 

 19. 



Godred Don, pillages Lewis, 35 ; cam- 

 paign against, 35 ; mutilated, 35 ; 

 killed in Lewis, 38. 



Gbkstad, Viking-ship found at, 51. 



Gordon, Alex., Lord, 108. 



Gordon, Colonel, of Cluny, and emi- 

 grations, 551. 



Gordon Lewis, Lord, at Inverurie, 439. 



Gordon, Lt.-Col. John, of Cluny, buys 

 Barra, 495. 



Gordon, Sir Robert, on the death of 

 Torquil Dubh, 168. 



Gordon Cathcart, Lady, 496. 



Gorm-glasa, the, at the battle of Clon- 

 tarf, 9. 



Graham, John, Viscount Dundee, 377, 

 378. 



Grimsay, Oratory in, 81. 



Guin, brother of Leod, 58. 



Gunni, brother of Sweyn of Gairsay, 

 29. 



Haebudes (Hebrides), xxxvi ; Pliny and 

 the, 2. 



Haemodae a group of seven islands, 2. 



Hafursfiord, battle of, II. 



Hakon, son of Jarl Paul of Orkney, 22. 



Hakon, King of Norway, 36, 37 ; his 

 expedition to the Isles, 40, 41 ; 

 interview with Ewen of Lome at 

 Gigha, 41 ; his fleet shattered, 41. 



Hakon V. and Robert Bruce, 42 ; 

 death of, 42. 



Halidon Hill, 75. 



Harald the Black of Iceland, 17. 



Harald, brother of Lagman, mutilation 

 of, 25 



Harald, son of Olave the Black, 39. 



Harald Ilarfager, n ; expedition to 

 the Hebrides, 12. 



Harald Mac Godred, 39. 



Harlaw, battle of, 88. 



Harris, 68; derivation of name, xxxviii; 

 Macleod of, 54; armorial bearings 

 of the Macleods of, 59 ; invaded 

 by Donald Gorm, 206 ; improve- 

 ments made by Capt. Alex. 

 Macleod, 485 ; and the Siol 

 Tor mod, 485 ; law case concern- 

 ing northern boundaries, 487 ; 

 bought by the Earl of Dunmore, 

 495 ; described by Dean Monro, 

 500 ; Martin's description of, 509 ; 

 population, 553 ; rentals, 553. 



Harris, North, bought by the Scotts, 

 495- 



Harris, South, owned by Viscount 

 Fincastle, V.C.,495. 



Hay, Sir George, of Netherliff, com- 

 mission, 217 ; charter to, 236 ; 

 and the ironworks at Loch Maree, 

 247 ; made Viscount Duplin and 

 Lord Hay of Kinfauns, 247 ; 

 created first Earl of Kinnoull, 247. 



Hay, John, and the Scottish fisheries, 



309. 



Headrick's report upon Lewis, 513. 



Hebrides, the, earliest inhabitants, xxi, 

 xxxvi ; Fordun's early annals con- 

 cerning, xxxi ; Irish traditions 

 concerning, xxxiv; origins of name, 

 xxxvi ; lack of records, 4 ; Chris- 

 tianity in, 4, 5 ; and Harald 

 Ilarfager, 12 ; Norsemen in, 12 ; 

 Orcadian supremacy over, 17 ; 

 conquest of, by Godred Crovan,. 

 18 ; expeditions of Magnus Bare- 

 leg to, 19 ; supremacy of Norway 

 in, 20 ; expedition of 1098, 22 ; 

 right of Magnus to, 23 ; divided 

 between Godred and Somerled, 

 28 ; the skatt-kings of, 44 ; pride 

 of pedigree in, 54 ; and Edward I. ,. 

 71 ; rebellion in, 92 ; pacification 

 of, by James IV., 108 ; lieutenancy 

 of Earl of Argyll over, 1 10 ; policy 

 of James IV. in, no; insurrec- 

 tion in, 118; second invasion of,. 

 119; and James IV., 123; insur- 

 rections of Donald Gallda in r 

 125 ; expeditions of James V. to, 

 131 ; summonses issued against 

 chiefs, 131 ; Donald Dubh in, 138 ; 

 insurrection of chiefs, 143 ; dis- 

 orders, 159 ; feuds in Southern, 

 180; James VI. on the state of, 

 226 ; proposed extermination of 

 inhabitants, 230 ; and the policy 

 of James VI., 239; and the 

 statutes of Icolmkill, 241 ; gradual 

 declension of the independence of 

 chiefs in, 269 ; chiefs enter into a 

 bond, and its conditions, 277 ; 

 education at a low ebb in, 281 ; 

 social conditions in 1600, 281 ; 

 wine drinking in, 281, 283 ; 

 herring fisheries, 304 ; ecclesias- 

 tical government, 522 ; John 

 Carswell, first Superintendent of, 

 522 ; Cromwell's instructions to 

 fortify, 352. 



Hebrides, Outer, place names, xxxvi ; 

 and Thorstein the Red, 16 ; con- 

 ditions of life in, during Norse 

 occupation, 43-47 ; question of 

 " commons," 46 ; Christianity of 



