- The
Orkneyinga saga (Old Norse: [ˈorknˌœyjeŋɡɑ ˈsɑɣɑ]; also
called the
History of the
Earls of
Orkney and Jarls' Saga) is a
narrative of the
history of...
-
exist in
various versions known to have
influenced each other. In the
Orkneyinga saga, the
blood eagle is
described as a
sacrifice to Odin. Þar
fundu þeir...
- Nór (Old
Norse Nórr) is
according to the
Orkneyinga Saga the
eponymous founder of Norway. Nór of
Norway appear in “Fundinn Nóregr” (‘Norway Founded’),...
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known with certainty. She
married Earl
Thorfinn Sigurdsson of Orkney. The
Orkneyinga Saga
claims that Kalf Arnesson, Ingibiorg's uncle, was
exiled in Orkney...
- mother's side of the family.
Their lives and
times are
recounted in the
Orkneyinga Saga,
which was
first written down in the
early 13th
century by an unknown...
-
about the
status of Strathclyde. A
tradition in the thirteenth-century
Orkneyinga saga
related that
Malcolm married the
widow of
Thorfinn Sigurdsson, Ingibiorg...
- The two main
sources for Sigurd's life are the
Norse Heimskringla and
Orkneyinga sagas.
According to the sagas,
after the
Battle of
Hafrsfjord unified...
-
Erlendsson from 1105 to 1123.
Their lives and
times are
recounted in the
Orkneyinga saga,
which was
first written down in the
early 13th
century by an unknown...
-
archipelago to the
north of
mainland Scotland.
First mentioned in the
Orkneyinga saga, it is
today the
location of the
headquarters of the
Orkney Islands...
- in
marriage as compensation. A
variation of this
story also
appears in
Orkneyinga saga. Afterwards, Gudrød was kept in Harald's hird, in a
position where...
