!MENTION: Sir Robert Douglas of Glenbervie, Baronet, THE BARONAGE
OF SCOTLAND, Edinburgh, 1798, p. 375. Spells the name MacRaild Armine.
!MENTION: John Burke, Esq., HISTORY OF THE COMMONERS OF GREAT
BRITAIN AND IRELAND, Vol. IV, Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co.,
1977, pp. 584-592. Quotes Douglas without giving credit. Spells the
name same as Douglas.
!MENTION: William Matheson, "The Ancestry of the MacLeods", (Paper
presented on 18th November 1977), TRANSACTIONS OF THE GAELIC
SOCIETY OF INVERNESS, Vol. LI, (1978-80), pp. 68-80. Spells it either
"Mac Rhaild Armin", "Mac Arailt Armainn", calls it "a Norse-derived word
meaning a steward, which in the Hebrides came to denote a member of
the local aristocracy."
!MENTION: Alick Morrison, THE MACLEODS: THE GENEALOGY OF A CLAN,
Section IV, "The MacLeods of Lewis", Edinburgh, Associated Clan MacLeod
Societies, 1974, p. 1. Spells the name MacRaild Armuin.
!MENTION: Alick Morrison, THE CHIEFS OF CLAN MACLEOD, East Kilbride,
Scotland, Associate Clan MacLeod Societies,1986, p. 28.
!MENTION: W.D.H. Sellar, "The Ancestry of the MacLeods Reconsidered",
(Paper presented on 30TH January, 1998), TRANSACTIONS OF THE GAELIC
SOCIETY OF INVERNESS, Vol. LV, 1997-1998, The Gaelic Society of
Inverness, 2000, pp. 233-258. Spells it MacRailt Armuinn. Defines it as
"Lord MacHarald".
!NAME: All published sources from Sir Robert Douglas of Glenbervie to
the present have this person as MacRaild Armuin in various spellings,
treating Armuin as his surname, and MacRaild as his prenom. However, it
is obvious to this compiler that this should reversed. The combination
"Mac" plus "Raild" means "Son of Harald." Thus, this is a patronymic, and
therefore should be considered the true surname. The word "armuin" as a
Gaelic nominative, means "hero, warrior, chief, brave man, chieftain,
chief of a clan. An officer." Usage: "Air slios an armuinn -- on the
warrior''s side; suil mheallach an armuinn -- the winning eye of the
hero." I take the name Armuin MacRaild to mean "the chief of clan
Harald." The first-born son of Harald, or "chief Haraldson".