According to the Orkneyinga Saga, in the war which followed, Thorfinn defeated Karl in a sea-battle off Deerness at the east end of the Orkney Mainland.

According to the Orkneyinga Saga, in about 872 Harald Fairhair became King of a united Norway and many of his opponents fled to the islands of Scotland including the Hebrides of the west coast, and the Northern Isles.

According to the Orkneyinga saga the main residence of Jarl Thorfinn the Mighty ( 1014-1065 ) was located in Birsay, possibly on the Brough.

According to Orkneyinga Saga in 1230 AD, Nór founded Norway.

According to the Orkneyinga Saga, Torf-Einarr the 10th century Norse Earl of Orkney killed Hálfdan Longlegs on North Ronaldsay in revenge for Hálfdan and his brother Gudrød Ljome's slaying of Rögnvald Eysteinsson, Torf-Einarr's father.

According to the Orkneyinga Saga, Vikings then made the islands the headquarters of pirate expeditions carried out against Norway and the coasts of mainland Scotland.

According to Orkneyinga Saga, Nór founded Norway.

According to the Norse Heimskringla and Orkneyinga sagas, Rögnvald had little regard for his youngest son Einarr because Einarr's mother was a slave.

According to the Orkneyinga saga some of these vikings began to raid Norway in summer from the Orkney and Shetland islands north of mainland Scotland.

According to that manuscript, Færeyinga Saga starts like this:

According to Færeyinga Saga there was an ancient institution on the headland Tinganes in Tórshavn on the island of Streymoy.

According to the earliest source to the Faroe Islands, Færeyinga Saga, emigrants who left Norway to escape the tyranny of Harald I of Norway settled in the islands about the end of the 9th century.

According to Njal's Saga, he had a foster-son named Kerthialfad.

According to the Saga of Erik the Red, he spent his three years of exile exploring this land.

According to the Saga of Erik the Red, Leif apparently saw Vinland for the first time after being blown off course on his way to introduce Christianity to Greenland.

According to the Saga of the Greenlanders, Leif had heard the story of merchant Bjarni Herjólfsson who claimed to have sighted land to the west of Greenland after having been blown off course.

According to Lorne Greene's song " Saga of the Ponderosa " (" Bonanza " four CD set biography notes / song, Bear Family Records, 1964 ), Marie's first husband was " Big Joe " Collins, who dies saving Ben's life.

According to some sources, the first to be given the name Minamoto was Minamoto no Makoto, seventh son of Emperor Saga.

According to Bock's autobiographical The Bock Saga, he was born as the result of an incestuous relationship between sea-captain Knut Victor Boxström ( 1860 – 1942 ), who would have been 81 years old at the time, and his daughter Rhea, 42.

According to the Bock Saga this used to be a collective tradition amongst men and women, where " heart-friends " ( of the same sex ) would share each other's liquids as a special favor and sacrament, to enhance their respective fertility and vitalize their neurological energy.

" According to " The Saga of Eirik the Red ", Gudrid was the daughter of a chieftain by the name of Thorbjorn of Laugarbrekka.

According to the Saga of the Greenlanders, Gudrid then accompanied her husband on his quest to Vinland, with the hope that he could retrieve the body of his brother Thorvald ( the areas described as Vinland in the two Sagas have been identified as L ' Anse aux Meadows, in Newfoundland, Canada ).

According to the Saga of Eirik the Red, Thorstein makes the voyage to Vinland by himself, and it is only upon his return that the two marry.

According to the Saga, “ Thorstein had a farm and livestock in the western settlement at a place called Lysufjord ” and another man by the name of Thorstein ( whose wife in this version is named Sigrid ) owned a half-share on this farm.

After his death, Gurid moved back to Brattahlíð, where she married a merchant named Thorfinn Karlsefni, who is described in the Saga of Eirik the Red as being “ a man of good family and good means ” and “ a merchant of good repute .” According to " The Saga of the Greenlanders ," after their marriage, and at Gudrid ’ s urging, the two led an attempt to settle Vínland with sixty men, five women, and a cargo of various livestock ( while it is implied in " The Saga of Eirik the Red " that she accompanies him, Gudrid is never actually mentioned in the account of the journey ).

According to " The Saga of Eirik the Red ," the couple had another son named Thorbjorn.

According to " The Saga of Eirik the Red ," " Karlsefni and Gudrid had a son named Thorbjorn, whose daughter Thorunn was the mother of Bishop Bjorn.

According to the Icelandic sagas (" Eirik the Red's Saga " and the " Saga of the Greenlanders "— chapters of the Hauksbók and the Flatey Book ), the Norse started to explore lands to the west of Greenland only a few years after the Greenland settlements were established.

According to legend, Albertus Magnus is said to have discovered the philosopher's stone and passed it to his pupil Thomas Aquinas, shortly before his death.

According to this account, Magnus I of Norway ( reigned 1034 – 1047 ) visited the court of Harthacnut in Denmark, received with all official honors.

According to Snorri Sturluson's Heimskringla, he was named Magnus ( Magnús in Old Norse ) by Sigvatr Þórðarson, his father's Icelandic skald, after Charlemagne, Carolus Magnus in Latin.

According to Johannes Magnus, Magog migrated to Sweden ( via Finland ) 88 years after the flood, and one of his sons was the first king of Sweden.

According to legend, the 13th-century scientist and philosopher Albertus Magnus is said to have discovered the philosopher's stone and passed it to his pupil, Thomas Aquinas, shortly before his death circa 1280.

According to the Heimskringla, Magnus had his longship dragged across the isthmus north of Kintyre in 1093 as part of his campaign.

According to Magnus Londen's article, young Holger Svedlin was sent off to an orphanage for one year at age nine.

According to Magnus Londen, the time in theatre training was both a joyous time when Holger was able to exert his gregarious side — he loved being the centrepiece of all social activity — but it was also darkened by his sense of lacking a real, and significantly credible, identity.

According to Magnus Londen's article he would even play into these rumours himself at times stating that he had arrived in Finland along with a band of Spanish soldiers, being their mascot, and that his actual name was " La Plata ".

According to Magnus Londen, the investigation report archived in the police archive in Helsinki states that the brothers had been listening to music while Ior was dancing and playing with a gun.

According to Magnus Londen, the stories told by Ior Svedlin during his guided tours gradually evolved in a bizarre direction, resulting into a conflict with his employer.

According to Snorri Sturluson, in his Heimskringla, King Magnus, son of King Harald Sigurtharson, who was the half brother of Saint King Olaf Haraldsson, died from ergotism shortly after the Battle of Hastings.

According to 18th-century Swedish Master of Philosophy Magnus Boræn, Sune was also Duke of Östergötland ( at a time when the use of such a title is not known in Sweden ).

According to Saxo Grammaticus, Ragnvald was murdered by supporters of Magnus, who then won the realm (" imperium ") as King of Sweden.

According to Coxeter, the transformation by inversion in circle was invented by L. I. Magnus in 1831.

According to Magnus, the / r / sets the word in motion, especially after a / t / so a ' tamp ' is in one place, but a ' tramp ' goes for a walk.

According to Magnus Magnusson, the courts were " an uneasy substitute for vengeance .”

According to Olaus Magnus, there were many books written with runes in important Swedish religious centres, such as Skara and Uppsala, before the Reformation.

According to the sagas, in 1103 Magnus set out again to raid in Ireland.

According to a conversation between Doc Magnus and his creator T. O.

According to the " Old Queen " ( Alessandra ) of Armand's coven in Paris, Magnus was 300 years old when he made Lestat.

According to the current view, this refers to the usurper Joannes ( r. 423 – 425 ), while according to the supporters of the traditional view, it indicates the gate's construction as a free-standing triumphal arch in 388 – 391 to commemorate the defeat of the usurper Magnus Maximus ( r. 385 – 388 ), and which was only later incorporated into the Theodosian Walls.

According to Anonymous IV, " Magister Leoninus ( Léonin ) was the finest composer of organum ; he wrote the great book ( Magnus Liber ) for the gradual and antiphoner for the sacred service.