Matheson Collection > Macleods of Dunvegan from the time of Leod to the end of the seventeenth century

THE DESCENT OF LEOD 13
I have not been able to identify any more names till
we come to number 22, lamhar of the Judgments. He
is certainly to be identified with Ivar, ' the Boneless High
King of the Norse.' The Kilbride MS. traces Ivar
MacArailt's descent from him probably in the female line,
and with several names interpolated. In it there are
fourteen names between these two; in Dr. MacTodd's
only five.
Dr. MacTodd gives the pedigree of this lamhar Ata-
cliadh in his Wars of the Gael with the Foreigners, back to
Ivar the Boneless, ' High King of the Norse in Ireland
and Brittain,' v/ho died in 873, as foUows. As will be
observed, he gives the earliest name first and works
downwards.
Ivar (Beinlaus), died 873, High King
11 of the Norse.
(The Irish Annalists term these 'Grandsons of Ivar,' but by
which son is uncertain.) I
Var, slain 904. Sitric, died 927. Gothfrith, died 934. Ragnall.
i !1 I
Gothfrith. Olaf-Cuaran, died 981. Gyda, m. Olaf-Trygvasson,
II King of Norway.
I I I II I
CuNiARAiNN, Sitric-Silkenbeard, Ragnall, Aralt, Amancus,
slain 989. died 1042. slain slain slain
980. 1000. 954.
I II
Eachmarcach, Ivar, King of Dublin
died 1054. 1038, expelled 1046.
The remaining names in the Kilbride MS. I have not
attempted to identify. They are probably mythical.
Excepting the first name it is impossible to identify
the names given in the Kilbride MS. with those borne
by Leod's ancestors, on the assumption that he was a son
of Olaf the Black.