For case in point, the northern Hebridean islands of Lewis and Harris and Skye seem to have been held by the Crovan dynasty, then represented by the reigning Haraldr Óláfsson, King of the Isles. On the other hand, the family's placement in Garmoran and the Hebrides may have stemmed from its marital alliance with the Crovan dynasty, an affiliation carried out at some place prior to Ruaidhrí's expulsion from Kintyre.