After the stalemate of the Battle of Largs, Haakon retreated to Orkney, where he died in December 1263, entertained on his death bed by recitations of the sagas.

After the defeat at the Battle of Stiklestad, Harald managed to escape with the aid of Rögnvald Brusason ( later Earl of Orkney ) to a remote farm in Eastern Norway.

After three chapters dealing with the mythical ancestry of the later earls, the saga's adventurous account begins with the semi-mythical tales of the conquest of Orkney by Harald Fairhair, the King of Norway before moving on to more factual matters.

After the Norwegian defeat, he sailed with the remains of the Norwegian strike force back to Orkney, where they wintered.

After service in World War II, he entered Parliament in the 1950 general election as Liberal Member of Parliament for Orkney and Shetland, in Scotland, continuing to represent the constituency until he retired from politics in 1983.

After the stalemate of the Battle of Largs, Haakon retreated to Orkney, where he died in December 1263, entertained on his death bed by recitations of the sagas.

After Buckingham's death in 1687 the house remained empty until the estate was purchased by George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney in 1696.

In 1693 James Wallace referred to them being often found in Orkney: " After Storms of Westerly Wind amongst the Sea-weed, they find commonly in places expos'd to the Western-Ocean these Phaseoli.

After the death of Robert Stewart, the palace was used only occasionally by later earls of Orkney, and was not occupied after the mid-17th century.

After his release he continued his activism in the anarchist movement in the United Kingdom, re-formed the Anarchist Black Cross and Black Flag with Albert Meltzer, was acquitted of involvement with the Angry Brigade, and started the publishing house Cienfuegos Press ( later Refract Publications ), which for a number of years he operated from the remote island of Sanday, Orkney, where he also edited and published a local Orcadian newspaper, The Free-Winged Eagle.

After the family moved to Bedford in 1896, he was educated at Orkney House School for five years, a period he later described as the only unhappy episode in his life, for the compulsive flogging beloved of its headmaster.

After its completion, Aud sailed to Orkney.

After graduating, he worked as a parliamentary assistant to Jim Wallace, then Lib Dem MP for Orkney and Shetland, and later as a Press Officer for the Scottish Liberal Democrats.

After his victory King Sverre placed Shetland under direct Norwegian rule, a state of affairs that continued for nearly two centuries.

After several unsuccessful attempts, including a plebiscite in 1985, the Lord Lyon King of Arms approved it as the official flag of Shetland in 2005.

After the islands were transferred to Scotland, thousands of Scots families emigrated to Shetland in the 16th and 17th centuries but studies of the genetic makeup of the islands ' population indicate that Shetlanders are just under half Scandinavian in origin.

After a brief and uneventful voyage into the Southern Ocean, Bransfield and Smith reached the South Shetland Islands.

After 32 years, Aly Bain left to play with other musicians, most notably Phil Cunningham ( accordion ), and was replaced in 2002 by fellow Shetland fiddler Kevin Henderson of Fiddlers ' Bid.

After they failed to raise enough, Arthur Weinert, a graduate of the Class of 1900, donated a Shetland Sheepdog to the students in 1952.

After the resignation of his friend and former ministerial colleague Nicol Stephen, Scott declared his candidacy for the leadership of the Scottish Liberal Democrats on 7 July 2008 at Lerwick harbour, surrounded by a group of men dressed as Vikings which is a tradition in Shetland called Up Helly Aa where Shetlanders celebrate their Viking heritage.

After retiring as a judge in 1992, he wrote reports regarding two maritime accidents involving the grounding of oil tankers and subsequent spills of crude oil: the grounding of the MV Braer off the Shetland Islands in January 1993, in which 85, 000 tonnes of oil escaped ; and the grounding of the Sea Empress at the entrance to Milford Haven in February 1996, and subsequent escape of more than 70, 000 tonnes of oil off the Pembrokeshire coast.

After Patrick's demise, Scalloway Castle remained the administrative centre for Shetland and it was still in good shape when used as a barracks for Oliver Cromwell's troops in the 1650s.

After two unsuccessful tries in 1984 and 1985, where he reached the Shetland Islands, he succeeded in 1986, when he arrived in Copenhagen on 11 August 1986 after 41 days rowing alone.

After the first two murders, the warning notes were rarely ignored.

After only eighteen years of non-interference, there were already indications of melioration, though `` in a slight degree '', to be sure.

After a sort of death march during four days without food, Helion and his comrades were shipped by cattle-car to a labor camp at an estate farm in East Germany.

After we got a script and the spots for the songs were blocked out, we'd get together for an hour or so every day.

After a pause, during which he studied Scotty's face as if Scotty were not there and could not study him too, Mr. McKinley would ask the same questions he had asked downstairs.

After the Juniors were welcomed and congratulated for qualifying for the Finals of the Junior Class, Mrs. William H. Long, Jr. was introduced as the first speaker.

After all, if you were going to set up a workshop you had to have the proper equipment and that was that.

After titration of the liberated Af with Af, aliquots of the aqueous and of the organic phase were counted in a solution-type Geiger tube.

After the 42 figures had been drawn like Figures 5 and 6, classifications of the onset ages and completion ages were summarized from them.

After blotting out most of the liquid around the sections, the latter were mounted in buffered glycerine ( 7 parts glycerine to 3 parts of PBS ).

After drying the sections under the fan, fixing in acetone, and drying at 37-degrees as in the indirect method, the sections were treated with conjugated Af or Af ( undiluted unless mentioned otherwise ) for 5 - 30 minutes.

After Af and Af were passed through Dowex-2-chloride twice and treated twice with healthy sweet clover tissue powder, nonspecific staining was greatly reduced but a disturbing amount of such staining was still present.

After every session, the check marks were totaled up and graphed, and in this way the supervisor's progress was charted.

After a while we were perhaps less surprised, but still puzzled, when a friendly discussion would suddenly jump the track into the most irrelevant and illogical comparisons.

After the first two were blacked out, the third light was abandoned by a terrified Italian crew, who left their light to shine for nine minutes like an unerring homing beacon until British MP's shot it out.

After a flood of protests, they were reinstated at the beginning of 1953.

After an earthquake in Japan in 1793 people on the coast at Tugaru were so terrified by the extraordinary ebbing of the sea that they scurried to higher ground.

After he had proceeded a few feet, he paused and turned up the cuffs of his trousers, which were already damp and mud-caked.

After a time, it occurred to her that her thoughts were not worth the trouble.

After it allotted shares to 41 underwriters and 52 selling group members from coast to coast there were not many shares for anyone.

After this time, inscriptions on the Han bronze mirrors, as well as other writings, emphasized the desirability of keeping one's self at the center of the universe, where cosmic forces were strongest.

After returning to the United States and raising the money, he discovered on getting back to Japan that the hours were no longer available.

After the Revolution of 1917, views expressed by anthropologists in the USSR, and later the Soviet Bloc countries, were highly shaped by the requirement to conform to Marxist theories of social evolution.

After they each performed, both were deemed equal until Apollo decreed they play and sing at the same time.

" After the war, nationalists, especially those who had been active in the Continental Army, complained that the Articles were too weak for an effective government.