's son, afterwards Edward II. Margaret sailed from Norway and reached the Orkneys, where she died. about the end of September 1290. The news of this occurrence was first made known in a
; the origin of the Latin word is obscure; it has probably no connexion with the root of linere, to smear, i.e. with wax, for an inscription with a stilus)
dated the 7th of October 1290. Some mystery, however, surrounded her death, and about 1300 a woman from
declared she was Queen Margaret. The impostor, if she were such, was burned as a witch at Bergen. See A. Lang, History of Scotland, vol. i. (Edinburgh, 1904).
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