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hops; a contingent in expedition against Saxons; trade with Grimsby; the bishops; Sweyn's viking life; agriculture; invasion of earl Harald Ungi; earl Harold Maddadson, after defeat by Ragnvald Gudrodson, fled to; Cobbie Row Castle, in; the gaedingar of the earl of Orkney; king Hakon at; and died in Kirkwall, in the palace of bishop; mortgaged to Scotland; adopted English with many Norse words; old Norse ballad sung in 18th cent.; proposed Scot. conquest after Norse reverse at Largs; annular eclipse of sun in 1263; Orkney and Shetland colonised mainly from the fjords north of Bergen; see also Orkney and Caithness, earls of. Orkney and Caithness, earls of; (see also under their individual names); Ragnvald; Sigurd Eysteinson; Guthorm Sigurdson; Hallad Ragnvaldson; Torf-Einar Ragnvaldson; Arnkell, Erlend and Thorfinn Hausa-kliufr, sons of Torf-Einar; Arnfinn, Havard, Hlodver, Ljot and Skuli, sons of Thorfinn; Sigurd Hlodverson; Somarled, Brusi, Einar and Thorfinn, sons of Sigurd; Ragnvald Brusi's son; Paul Thorfinnson; Erlend Thorfinnson; Sigurd Magnusson, son of k. Magnus Barelegs; Hakon Paulson; St. Magnus Erlendson; Paul Hakonson the Silent; Harald Hakonson Slettmali; Erlend Haraldson; St. Ragnvald Kolson; Harald Ungi; Harold Maddadson; David Haroldson; John Haroldson; no pedigree of earls after John; diploma of earls unreliable; various theories as to genealogy of the earls after John; no claim to earldom of Orkney by Johanna of Strathnaver; diploma on earldom of Sutherland; Malcolm, earl of C. and Angus; Magnus II, son of Gilchrist, earl of Angus; Gibbon; Magnus III Gibbonson; Malise II, heir of Matilda, dau. of earl Gibbon; the earldom acquired through females; unknown earls; MacWilliam; Gilbert; Olaf. Orkney and Shetland Folk, (Viking Society, Old-lore Miscellany and reprint), A.W. Johnston. Orkney and Shetland, (Tudor); Ellar-holm. Orkney and Shetland Records, (Viking Society). Orkneyinga Saga (Rolls text and transl.); historical record until 12th cent.; battle of Turfness; Thorfinn's life; St. Magnus; authorship; Ragnvald and Sweyn Saga; its end; Somarled the Freeman slain; earl Harold Madd
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