youngest Son of Somerled thane of Argyle.]

[Footnote 79: To avoid long, or dangerous circumnavigations, it was
usual for the antients to draw their light canoes over isthmuses.
Among the Greeks such places were termed [Greek: _diolchoi_] _i.e._
dragging-places, and there was a very remarkable one near Corinth. By
the Scotch they were called Tarbats, from the Gaelic _tarn_ to draw,
and _baat_ a boat. There was a Tarbat between Loch-Lomond and
Loch-Long.]

[Footnote 80: Alwin McArkel, as appears from the Chartulary of
Glasgow, was created Earl of Levnach by Maol-Coluim IIII., A. D.
1153.]

[Footnote 81: No doubt the neighbouring inhabitants retired to the
isles of Loch-Lomond in times of danger.]

[Footnote 82: _i.e._ Haco.]

[Footnote 83: _i.e._ without an awning.]

[Footnote 84: _i.e._ ships.]

[Footnote 85: _i.e._, the Scotch.]

[Footnote 86: Kerti-sveina (_orig._), _i.e._ Inspectors of the Lights,
who were to see that the Norwegian palace was properly illuminated.
The office corresponded exactly to the Canhowllyd of the Welsh
Princes.]