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, Magnus had a reputation for piety and gentleness, and was rejected by the Norwegians, refusing to fight in a Viking raid in Anglesey, Wales, because of his religious convictions, instead staying on board his ships during the Battle of Menai Strait, singing psalms.

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, 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 various sources, Jarl Rögnvald had three illegitimate sons: Hallad ( Hallaðr ), Hrollaug ( Hrollaugr ), and Torf-Einarr.

According to the Suda, a 10th century encyclopedia, Alexis was the paternal uncle of the dramatist Menander and wrote 245 comedies, of which only fragments now survive, including some 130 preserved titles.

According to Mercer's 2011 Worldwide Cost of Living Survey, Dublin is the 13th most expensive city in the European Union ( down from 10th in 2010 ) and the 58th most expensive place to live in the world ( down from 42nd in 2010 ).

According to the, Yamabe's mother, Yamato no Niigasa ( later called Takano no Niigasa ), was a 10th generation descendant of Muryeong of Baekje.

According to the 10th century Gulating Law, a ship with 13 rowing benches is the smallest ship suitable for military use.

According to the documentary hypothesis, the first five books of the Bible ( Pentateuch / Torah ), including Genesis, were collated during the 5th century BC from four main sources, which themselves date from no earlier than the 10th century BC.

According to Song Dynasty sources, it originated around the 10th century.

According to one widely accepted dating, he was born on 20 November 1750 ( Friday, 10th Dhu al-Hijjah, 1163 AH ).

According to Byzantine sources, some parts of the Laconian region remained pagan until well into the 10th century AD, and Doric-speaking populations survive today in Tsakonia.

The authors found that gender plays a significant role in interracial divorce dynamics: According to the adjusted models predicting divorce as of the 10th year of marriage, interracial marriages that are the most vulnerable involve white females and non-white males ( with the exception of white females / Hispanic white males ) relative to white / white couples.

According to Kevin Benson, the 10th director of the school, " The first ' official ' reference to the School of Advanced Military Studies ( SAMS ) graduates as Jedi Knights was on 12 May 1992 during a meeting of the Committee on Armed Services Military Education Panel in Washington D. C ." Congressman Ike Skelton stated, " we all know that the real stamp of approval came when General Schwarzkopf requested SAMS graduates, sometimes referred to as ' Jedi Knights ," be sent to his headquarters in Riyadh to assist in developing the campaign plan.

According to the Dictionary of the Fungi ( 10th edition, 2008 ), the order consists of 12 families, 80 genera, and 1767 species.

According to Hammer, his study suggests that the Ashkenazi population expanded through a series of bottlenecks-events that squeeze a population down to small numbers-perhaps as it migrated from the Middle East after the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE to Italy, reaching the Rhine Valley in the 10th century.

According to the Dictionary of the Fungi ( 10th edition, 2008 ), there are about 57 species in the genus.

According to U. S. News and World Report, Louisiana Tech's class of 2010 graduated with the 10th least amount of debt per student compared to all other national universities.

According to Mazar, "" It's the most significant construction we have from First Temple days in Israel ," and " It means that at that time, the 10th century, in Jerusalem there was a regime capable of carrying out such construction.

According to the Tanakh, Solomon's Temple was built atop the Temple Mount in the 10th century BCE and destroyed by the Babylonians in 586 BCE, and the Second Temple completed and dedicated in 516 BCE.

According to Sergio Waisman, the idea of serialized novellas dates back to the One Thousand and One Nights, also known as the Arabian Nights, from around the 10th century.

According to Ubiratàn D ' Ambrosio and Helaine Selin, the spherical law of sines was discovered in the 10th century.

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2011 impact factor of 4. 736, ranking it 21th out of 131 journals in the category " Ecology " and 10th out of 45 journals in the category " Evolutionary Biology ".

According to the work De Administrando Imperio written by the 10th century Byzantine Emperor Constantine VII, the Croats had arrived in the early 7th century in what is now Croatia, although this is disputed and competing hypotheses date the event between the 6th and the 9th centuries.

According to such scholars, if the 10th century record is richest for Indrapura, it is so because at that time Indrapura was the capital of Champa.

" According to this version, 39th Street between 9th and 10th Avenues became known as Hell's Kitchen and the name was later expanded to the surrounding streets.

According to the Dictionary of the Fungi ( 10th edition, 2008 ), the widespread genus contains over 300 species.

According to Schweitzer and Perry, some literature during the 10th and 11th century " made Jews out to be untrustworthy, treacherous oppressors, and exploiters of Muslims ".

According to the 2010 Index of Economic Freedom ( of the Heritage Foundation, Fraser Institute and WSJ ), Chile's economy is the 10th freest.