Gunni Óláfsson

Gunni Óláfsson is said to have been the first chief of Clan Gunn. Traditionally, he was said to have been a younger son of Oláfr the Black, the Norse King of Man and the Isles, who died in 1237. However, Oláfr probably did not have a son Gunni.

In modern times the line has been revised. The ancestor of Clan Gunn was probably either Gunni Óláfsson or Gunni Andresson. See the Clan Gunn project for details.

Sources

• Chronicon Manniæ, Or a Chronicle of the Kings of Man, John Gillies, transl. (1784).
• The Chronicle of Man and the Sudreys (Manx Society edition, 1874).
• Sir Robert Douglas of Glenbervie, Dugdale's Baronage of Scotland (1798).
• Alexander MacKenzie (F.S.A. Scot.), "The History of the MacLeods" in The Celtic Magazine Vol. 11 (Nov. 1885) No. 112, pp. 1-8.
• Andrew P. MacLeod, "The Ancestry of Leod" in Clan MacLeod Magazine, No. 91, November, 2000.
• William Matheson, "The Ancestry of the MacLeods" in Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness, Vol. LI (1978-80), 1981, pp. 68-80.
• Alick Morrison, The Origin of Leod (1986).
• W. D. H. Sellar, "Ancestry of the MacLeods Reconsidered" in Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness, Vol. LV, 1997-1998, The Gaelic Society of Inverness, 2000, pp. 233-258.
• Wikipedia: Clan Gunn.