eddirdovir

Updated: May 16, 2025

In 1179 King William the Lion had marched an army into Ross, and subdued it to his sway; and, ere he left it, caused two castles of Eddirdovir on the site of Redcastle in the Black Isle on the Beauly Firth, and of Dunskaith on the northern Suter of Cromarty, which is full of Norse remains, to be built, to enable him to hold his conquests.

James Gray - Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time: or, The Jarls and The Freskyns