- 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...
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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...
-
known with certainty. She
married Earl
Thorfinn Sigurdsson of Orkney. The
Orkneyinga Saga
claims that Kalf Arnesson, Ingibiorg's uncle, was
exiled in Orkney...
- 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...
- 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...
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about the
status of Strathclyde. A
tradition in the thirteenth-century
Orkneyinga saga
related that
Malcolm married the
widow of
Thorfinn Sigurdsson, Ingibiorg...
-
Orkneyinga saga. This way, the
reference would have
included Lake Mjøsa, an area
which is
known to have been
inhabited at that time: the
Orkneyinga saga...
- blót,
literally meaning sacrifice. The
historical context is from the
Orkneyinga saga,
where Þorri ("Frost") is an
early Finnish king, the son of Snær...
- "Papeys" or "islands of the papar".
Joseph Anderson noted that in the
Orkneyinga saga "The two Papeys, the
great and the
little (anciently
Papey Meiri...
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sources state that he was
father of
Eystein Glumra and,
according to the
Orkneyinga Saga, an
ancestor of both the
Earls of
Orkney and
Rollo of Normandy. v...
