_Godred Crovan HAROLDSON ________
_Olaf_I The_Red GODREDSON _|_Maria [Ragnhild] HARALDSDOTTER _
_Ochraidh Godred_II The_Black OLAFSON _|
| | _Fergus _________________________
| |_Elfrica of GALLOWAY ______|_________________________________
_Ollaghair Olaf_or_Olaus Odhar GODREDSON _|
| | _ MUIRCHEARTACH _________________
| | _Maclotten ________________|_________________________________
| |_Phingola (Fionghuala) MACLOCHLAN _____|
| | _________________________________
| |___________________________|_________________________________
|
|--Magnus OLAFSON
|
| _________________________________
| ___________________________|_________________________________
| _______________________________________|
| | | _________________________________
| | |___________________________|_________________________________
|_Lady_from KINTYRE _______________________|
| _________________________________
| ___________________________|_________________________________
|_______________________________________|
| _________________________________
|___________________________|_________________________________
!SOURCE: Alick Morrison, THE CHIEFS OF CLAN MACLEOD, East Kilbride, Scotland, Associate Clan MacLeod Societies,1986, p. 13. The TALISKER MANUSCRIPT reads, 'Magnus, last king of Man, was the brother of Leoid (progenitor of the MacLeods) by Olaf's first marriage and it is hoped that the following series of Lairds of MacLeod from Olaf downwards, will answer pretty nearly to the calculations by which the chronologie is judg'd of, which is taken from a list of them written from Sir Norman MacLeod of Berneray's account of the family, a man of very extensive knowledge and very versant in the Genealogies of the most notable families in Scotland and from old Daans or Poems'. The bardess, Mairi Nighean Alisdair Ruaidh speaks in the same strain. The MacLeods are descended from 'mighty Vikings' from the 'town of Bergen, which is the beginning of their history'. They are of the race of Ollaghair (i..e., Olaf Odhar or Olaf the the Black or Swarthy) son of Ochraidh (i.e., Godfrey). With this viewpoint the BANNATYNE MANUSCRIPT, written by a descendant of Sir Norman MacLeod, is in full agreement. The traditional Norse origin of the Clan is bluntly expressed in the MEMORIAL MANUSCRIPT (dated ca. 1767) for Norman, 22nd Chief. 'It is universally acknowledged that the Memorialist's family is lineally descended from the Norwegian Kings of Man and the Western Islands.' We are not entirely dependent on MacLeod traditions for the claim that the Clan is of Norse origin. The KILBRIDE MANUSCRIPT of the MacLauchlins, a MacLean genealogy, the family pedigree drawn up by Dubhaltach MacFirbisigh and the writings of Captain Thomas last century also proclaim the Norse origin of the Clan, though they differ considerably in particulars. All these genealogies were collected and closely examined by Canon Roderick MacLeod. He decided that the traditional account accepted by the Clan for centuries was correct.