In recent years, several historians have noted that within the Gaelic-language genealogies and praise-poetry concerning the MacLeods, Leod's great-grandfather's name appears to equate to the Old Norse "Ölvir", "Olvér"; rather than the Old Norse "Óláfr". There are considered to be four significant Gaelic-language genealogies which concern Leod's ancestry. These pedigree roughly agree with one another in the three generations after Leod. The greatest similarity between these genealogies are the names of Leod's great-grandfather, variously spelt "Oilmoir", "Olbair Snaige", "Olbuir Snaithe", and "Olbair Snoice". Taking into account variances in spelling, these names are now considered to represent the literary Gaelic "Olbhar", and the vernacular Gaelic "Olghair"; both which are in turn forms of "Ölvir".