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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