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The The Orkneyinga Saga on Alexander

The Orkneyinga Saga > For > Iv. The Earldom In The Norse Line, 872-1231.

attestation: King Alexander exacted terrible vengeance for the burning of Bishop Adam; the Icelandic Annals state he had the hands and feet hewn from eighty men who had been present at the burning.

"The Saga tells that when the tidings of this outrage reached King Alexander he was greatly enraged, and that the terrible vengeance he took was still fresh in memory when the Saga was written. Fordun states that the king had the perpetrators of this deed mangled in limb and racked with many a torture. The Icelandic Annals are more precise. They say that he caused the hands and feet to be hewn from eighty of the men who had been present at the burning, and that many of them died in consequence."

attestation: King Alexander II of Scotland granted the earldom of North Caithness in 1232 to Magnus, second son of Gilbride Earl of Angus, following the extinction of the Norse Earl line.

"On the failure of the line of the Norse Earls by the death of Earl John in 1231, King Alexander II. of Scotland, in 1232, granted the earldom of North Caithness to Magnus,[48] the second son of Gilbride, Earl of Angus."

attestation: By the treaty of 1266 between Alexander III of Scotland and Magnus IV of Norway, Norway ceded for ever the Isle of Man and all western islands except Orkney and Shetland, in return for Scotland paying 100 marks annually within St. Magnus' church plus 4000 marks over four years.

"the prior treaty executed at Perth, 6th July 1266, between King Alexander III. and Magnus IV. (the son of the unfortunate Hakon), by which the Kings of Norway ceded for ever the Isle of Man and all the other islands of the Sudreys, and all the islands in the west and south of the great Haf, except the isles of Orkney and Shetland, which were specially reserved to Norway. In consideration of this the King of Scotland became bound to pay to the King of Norway and his heirs for ever an annual sum of 100 marks, within St. Magnus' church"

attestation: King Alexander son of the holy King William was King of Scotland when Bishop Adam was burned; he was so enraged that the punishments he inflicted by mutilation, death, confiscation, and outlawry are still in memory.

"Alexander, son of the holy King William, was then King of Scotland. When he heard the tidings, he became so enraged that the punishments inflicted by him for the burning of the Bishop, by mutilation and death, confiscation and outlawry from the land, are still in fresh memory."