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- 1 2 3 4 https://www.douglashistory.co.uk/history/james11thearlofmorton.htm
- ↑ Marshall, Peter. Storm's Edge: Life Death and Magic in the Islands of Orkney.
- ↑ Marshall, Peter. Storm's Edge:Life, Death and Magic in the Islands of Orkney. p. 326.
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