With the motto of ‘Either peace of war’ and crest of a hand wielding a sword, the Gunns trace a proud descent from an early thirteen century Norse King of Man and the Isles.
• His second son Gunni, with the name meaning ‘war’, subsequently settled in Scotland and, marrying a sister of Harald, Jarl of Orkney, acquired lands in Caithness before the clan acquired the lands of Kildonan in Sutherland in the fifteenth century.
• Flourishing in their new domains, they nevertheless were embroiled in vicious feuds with rival clans, particularly their sworn enemies the Keiths.
