The first written references to the island are Roman sources such as the Ravenna Cosmography, which refers to Scitis[REF] and Scetis, which can be found on a map by Ptolemy [REF].
In the Norse sagas Skye is called Skíð, for example in the Hákonar saga Hákonarsonar[REF] and a skaldic poem in the Heimskringla from c. 1230 contains a line that translates as "the hunger battle-birds were filled in Skye with blood of foemen killed" [REF].