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Oykel, called by the Norse Ekkjal, the northern and perhaps also the southern bank of which probably formed the ranges of hills known in the time of the earliest Norse jarls as Ekkjals-bakki.
Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time or, The Jarls and The Freskyns James Gray
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Thence he sailed into the land along the shore of Moray and to Ekkjals-bakki.
Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time or, The Jarls and The Freskyns James Gray
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This new jarl, the second founder of the line of Orkney jarls, conquered Caithness and Sutherland as far south as Ekkjals-bakki, [7] which is believed by some to be in Moray, and by others, with more truth, to be the ranges of hills in Sutherland and Ross lying to the north and to the south of the River Oykel and its estuary, the Dornoch
Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time or, The Jarls and The Freskyns James Gray
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Ekkjals-bakki; southern limit of conquest of earl Sigurd I; indentification disputed; earl Paul's journey to Athole; in Sweyn's track to burn Frakark;
Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time or, The Jarls and The Freskyns James Gray
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Ekkjals-bakki, he came overland by Oykel and Lairg and Strathnaver or
Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time or, The Jarls and The Freskyns James Gray
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Ekkjals-bakki [14] to Athole to his sister Margret, who receives him with the utmost show of cordiality, and finally of Paul's abdication in favour of Margret's second son, Harold Maddadson, then a boy of five years of age, with the instructions to Sweyn to tell the
Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time or, The Jarls and The Freskyns James Gray
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Atjokl's-bakki is suggested as an emendation, and also p. 115.] [Footnote 15: Maiming made a Northman impossible.] [Footnote 16: _O. S.
Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time or, The Jarls and The Freskyns James Gray
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Tudor, _O. and S. _, p. 570.] [Footnote 7: _Ekkjals-bakki_ is clearly Oykel's Bank, the high bank or
Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time or, The Jarls and The Freskyns James Gray
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