Early in the 11th century Sigmund or Sigmundur Brestisson, whose family had flourished in the southern islands but had been almost exterminated by invaders from the northern, was sent from Norway, whither he had escaped, to take possession of the islands for Olaf Tryggvason, king of Norway.

* Sigmundur Brestisson, Faroese chieftain ( murdered )

* Sigmundur Brestisson introduces Christianity in the Faroe Islands.

* Sigmundur Brestisson, chieftain in the Faroe Islands

* 983-Return of Sigmundur Brestisson.

In the saga Tróndur is represented as the " bad guy " while the " good guy " is Sigmundur Brestisson.

Skúvoy was also the home of Sigmundur Brestisson, the hero of the Færeyinga Saga ( Saga of the Faroese ).

Sandvík is the place where Viking chief Sigmundur Brestisson was murdered after his long swim from Skúvoy in an attempt to flee from Tróndur í Gøtu.

Image: Sandvík. 4. jpg | Memorial in memory of Sigmundur Brestisson, made by sculptor Hans Pauli Olsen in 2006.

Image: Sigmundur Brestisson Memorial in Sandvík by Hans Pauli Olsen. jpg | Memorial in memory of Sigmundur Brestisson, made by sculptor Hans Pauli Olsen in 2006.

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Otherwise he mainly takes the subject matter for his ballads from the Norse sagas, e. g. ‘ Heimskringla ’ (‘ The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway ’) and ‘ Færeyinga Saga ’, the story of how the Faroes were converted to Christianity under Sigmundur Brestisson and with the resistance of Tróndur í Gøtu.

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The saga also features the island as the site of a battle between Brestur, father of Sigmundur, and Gøtuskeggjar.

Sigmundur Christianised the Faroe Islands for the King of Norway.

When Sigmundur came ashore exhausted to what he thought would be safety, Torgrímur the Evil fell upon him as he lay helpless on the sand and killed him for the golden bracelet he wore on his arm.

* 1005-Sigmundur Brestisson is killed by Tórgrímur Illi in Sandvík.

There is another contender for the discoverer of Iceland: Naddoddr, a Norwegian / Faeroese Viking explorer.

* Naddoddr, a Norwegian / Faeroese Viking explorer.

* Tróndur í Gøtu, a Faeroese Viking chieftain who, according to the Færeyinga Saga, was opposed to the introduction of Christianity to, and the Norwegian supremacy of, the Faeroes.

In Dutch, Easter is known as Pasen and in the Scandinavian languages Easter is known as påske ( Danish and Norwegian ), påsk ( Swedish ), páskar ( Icelandic ) and páskir ( Faeroese ).

The song has 86 verses and is in Faeroese, and deals with the Norwegian king Olaf Tryggvason.

From here there is a beautiful view over the sound Fugloyarfjørður towards the impressive capes of Svínoy and also towards the northernmost cape of the Faroes, Enniberg on Viðoy ' - one of the highest cliffs in the world-and the impressive rounded isthmus of Viðareiði that has been a favorite motive for Faeroese and foreign painters throughout the past century because of its tremendously beautiful sunset.

He rowed from the Faroe Islands to Denmark in a traditional Faeroese boat in 1986.

His ship was the first Faeroese ocean-going vessel since the early Middle Ages.

From the other Scandinavian languages based on Old Norse, there is húm in Icelandic which means ' twilight ', hómi in Faeroese which means ' unclear ', and humi in Old Swedish which means ' dark suspicion ', documented back to 1541.

Amon Djurhuus, a Faeroese drummer and student of Kári Streymoy, played the drums on the European part of the Paganfest, Merlin Sutter from Eluveitie filled for him on the US part and Daniel Ryan from Gigan on the Canadian part.

In 911, French King Charles the Simple was able to make an agreement with the Viking warleader Rollo, a chieftain of disputed Norwegian or Danish origins.

* Snorri Thorfinnsson, Viking chieftain ( earliest possible date ; d. c. 1090 )

Some hint of Cnut's childhood can be found in the Flateyjarbók, a 13th-century source, stating at one point that Cnut was taught his soldiery by the chieftain Thorkell the Tall, brother to Sigurd, Jarl of mythical Jomsborg, and the legendary Joms, at their Viking stronghold on the Island of Wollin, off the coast of Pomerania.

Again, many of the Viking place-names contain personal names, suggesting they are named for the local Norse / Danish lord or chieftain.

During the great Viking invasion of England opposed by Alfred the Great and various other Saxon and Welsh rulers, the Viking chieftain Hastein in late summer 893 marched his men to Chester to occupy the ruined Roman fortress there.

A separate kingdom of Haithabu was established around year 900 by the Viking chieftain Olaf from Svealand.

In a Viking expedition to Wendland, he had captured Edla, the daughter of a Wendish chieftain, and she gave him the son Emund ( who was to become king of Sweden ), and the daughter Astrid-later wife of Olaf II of Norway.

In 866, Robert was killed at the Battle of Brissarthe while, unsurprisingly, defending Francia against a joint Breton-Viking raiding party, led by Salomon, Duke of Brittany, and the Viking chieftain Hastein.

The Welsh name means " The Island in the Currents ", although its English name refers to the " Island of the Bards ", or possibly the island of the Viking chieftain, " Barda ".

The Viking chieftain Turgesius was drowned in Lough Owel by Máel Sechnaill mac Maíl Ruanaid in 845.

* 1035-Death of Tróndur í Gøtu, the last Viking chieftain of the Faroes.

Hence, it meant " Spila's village " or, more accurately, " Spila lives here "; Spila ( pronounced " Spiller ") being the local Viking warlord or chieftain, who acted as head of the immediate area.

Sea-King ( translation of the Old Norse term Sǣkonungr ), refers to a Viking, pirate chieftain of the early Middle Ages.

A powerful Viking chieftain and naval commander, Björn and his brother Hastein conducted many ( mostly successful ) raids in France in a continuation of the tradition initiated by their ( possibly adoptive ) father Ragnar Lodbrok.

The Karlevi Runestone is a skald ic Old Norse poem in dróttkvætt, the " courtly metre ", raised in memory of a Viking chieftain.

His character fits the stereotype of the barrel-chested chieftain with more than a hint of the Pirate captain or the Viking reaver in it, endowed with a booming voice and a great appetite for life, food and women.

A Sea King was the Viking name for a powerful pirate chieftain.

During the Viking era, Torgar, by the foot of the legendary mountain Torghatten, was a nationally powerful chieftain seat and an important commercial center along the coast.

Some Viking individuals of note mentioned in the annals with parallels in other historical sources are the foreign chieftain Turgeis, beginning in 845, Ímar and Amlaíb, the later progenitors of the

It was built circa 1150 on the site of a previous church believed to have been built in 1021 by a Viking chieftain.

The account is a unique source on the ceremonies surrounding the Viking funeral, of a chieftain.

In 2003 he made a TV documentary titled The Strangest Viking ( part of Channel 4's Secret History series ), in which Shaban explored the possibility that Viking chieftain Ivar the Boneless may have had osteogenesis imperfecta, the same condition as himself.