according to skene, this manuscript shows that paul descended from a brother of fearchar, earl of ross. w.d.h. sellar pointed out that there are too many generations between paul and gilleoin of the aird. sellar considered that the genealogy combined the descendants of gilleoin of the aird with the ancestors of paul; thus, that the genealogy should actually start with the "paul" who appears in the manuscript as gillander's grandfather. however, according to william matheson, it is possible that this "paul" is páll bálkason, a 13th-century sheriff of skye. matheson considered that páll bálkason's father was an ancestor of the macphails, mackillops, and the macleods.