Paperback book `Somerled and the emergence of Gaelic in Scotland` by John Marsden.
History of Somerled and a `proposal of his importance as the one personality who, more than any other, represents the first fully fledged emergence of the medieval Celtic-Scandinavian province from which the Gaelic Scotland of today is directly descended.`
Photocopied extract from `Orkneyinga Saga` edited by Joseph Anderson.
Preface (pp 1, 4-7), map of `Skotland`, Introduction: King Magnus ravages the Hebrides including Tiree in 1097 (pp34-35), Chapter 60: How Swein, Asleif`s son, came to stay with Holdbodi in Tiree (1page).
Norse colonial settlement in The Inner Hebridean isalnds of Mull, Coll, Tiree and Lismore, with bibliography and comments on the thesis by Reg Knapman, Kenovay.