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(Lochlan), show their Scandinavian origin. MacAskill
(Asketil), Maclver, MacRimmon (Hromund), Mac
Aulay of Lewis (from Olaf – the MacAulays of Argyll
are from Amalgaidh), Clan Ranald (Ragnvald) are
all Scandinavian in name, though from the beginning,
no doubt, not of unmixed Scandinavian blood. The
clans of the mainland, by their pedigrees, are of
Celtic origin.
In Gaelic, most of the shipping terms are Norse,
according to Dr. Macbain; and most of the place-names
of the coast are obviously Scandinavian, though
often Gaelicised and not easy to recognise on a
modern map. In a paper read to the Viking Club
(Saga-book, ii., pp. 50 seq.),
Miss A. Goodrich Freer
gives a list of Gaelic words of non-Celtic origin, as
collected by the late Father Allan Macdonald in the
Outer Hebrides, from which the following are examples
with the Icelandic equivalents: – aoinidh
(enni), brow of hill; crò (kró), pen-fold ; cuisle (kvísl),
branch of stream ; faothail (vadill in Shetland, vad),
ford ; haf (haf), ocean ; hawn (hafn), haven ;
luithean (Ijóri), louvre, smoke-vent ; mealbhach (mel-bakki),
links ; mol (möl), gravel ; nàbuidh (ná-búi), neighbour ;
òb (hóp), tidal bay ; oda (oddi), tongue of land ; rustal
(ristill), plough ; saoithean (seidr, with diminutive),
saithe ; scàireag (skári with diminutive), young gull ;
sgeir (sker), skerry ; sparran (sperra), rafter ; trosg
(thorsk), cod. In Outer Hebridean place-names
very many terminations are Norse, more or less
corrupted : -val (fell), -breck, -berg, -haug, for a
hill ; -ay, for island ; -lam, -um (hólmr), for an islet ;
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