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4 unusual facts about Book of Deer


Cormac of Mortlach

Cormac's successor Nechtan was bishop by at least 1131, when he appears in a charter recorded in the Gaelic notitiae on the margins of the Book of Deer.

Gartnait, Earl of Buchan

He was married to a woman named Ete (or Ite), the daughter of a Gille Míchéil, whom he appears alongside in a grant to Deer recorded in the Gaelic Notes on the Book of Deer.

Máel Muire, Earl of Atholl

A Malmori d' Athótla is mentioned in a charter relating to a year after 1130, contained within the Book of Deer.

Mormaer of Moray

The Gaelic notes in the Book of Deer dating from the mid 12th century offer a glimpse of the holding of land and the ordering of society in Moray.



see also

Bishop of Caithness

Jackson, Kenneth H. (ed), The Gaelic Notes in the Book of Deer, (Cambridge, 1972)