History of the Macleods

284 THE HISTORY OF THE MACLEODS.
but by his third wife, Christina, daughter of Farquhar, Earl
of Ross, he had three sons. The eldest was
I. LEOD, LEODUS, OR LOYD,
From whom descended the Macleods of Harris and Lewis.
Being a minor when his father died, he was brought up
and fostered in the family of Paul, son of Boke, Sheriff
of Skye, who had always been a supporter of Leod's father,
Olave the Black, and who was one of the most powerful
men of his day in the Western Isles. Leod, already
possessed of what is known in modern times as the Island
of Lewis, was presented by his foster-father, Paul, Sheriff
of Skye, with the lands of Harris, while his grandfather,
the Earl of Ross, made over to him a part of the Barony
of Glenelg. Both these extensive estates afterwards became
the heritage of Leod's eldest son Norman, progenitor of
the Macleods of Harris and Dunvegan.
Leod, who flourished in the reign of Alexander III.
[1249-1285], acquired also other vast possessions, by his
marriage with the only daughter and heiress of MacRaild
Armuinn, a Danish knight, who owned, and left to his
daughter and son-in-law, Leod, the extensive lands of
Dunvegan, Minginish, Bracadale, Duirinish, Lyndale, and
part of Troternish, in the Isle of Skye.
By this marriage with MacRaild Armuinn's only daughter
and the heiress of Dunvegan, Leod had issue —
1. Tormod, progenitor of the Macleods of Harris,
Glenelg, and Dunvegan.
2. Torquil, progenitor of the Macleods of Lewis, Water-
nish, Assynt, Coigeach, Gairloch, Raasay, and their offshoots.
There appears to be no doubt that the name " Lewis " is
simply the modern form of the original name " Leodus " —
in Gaelic " Leodhas" — which at first included Harris. And
this corroborates the unbroken tradition that this earlier
and larger Lewis was the earliest heritage of Leod or
Leodus, the common progenitor of the whole Clan. The
fact, therefore, that the Lewis of modern times was
given by Leod in patrimony to Torquil, progenitor of