However, by then the Vikings were almost certainly well established in Orkney and Shetland, and it is probable that many other non-recorded raids occurred before this.

However, the decline of Norse speech in Orkney probably began in 1379 when the earldom passed into the hands of the Sinclairs, and Scots had superseded Norse as the language of prestige on the island by the early 15th century.

However, Margaret, travelling to her new kingdom, died shortly after landing on the Orkney Islands around 26 September 1290.

However, a number of later sagas such as the Separate Saga of St. Olaf ( c. 1225 ), Heimskringla, Egils saga and Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar en mesta assert that Eirik sailed directly to Orkney, where he took the joint jarls into vassalage, collected forces and so set up a base which enabled him to organise several expeditions on overseas territory.

However, the family successfully negotiated the king's marriage to Margaret of Denmark, daughter of Christian I of Denmark in 1469 as a part of ending the " Norwegian annual " fee owed to Denmark for the Western Isles, and receiving Orkney and Shetland ( theoretically only as a temporary measure to cover Margaret's dowry ).

However, Olaf survived and spent the winter of 1066 – 1067 in Orkney,

However there are also two separate constituencies that elect one Member of the Scottish Parliament each for Orkney and Shetland by the first past the post system.

However, the soil of Orkney is generally very fertile and most of the land is taken up by farms, agriculture being by far the most important sector of the economy and providing employment for a quarter of the workforce.

However before 1918 the town of Kirkwall ( the capital of Orkney ) formed part of the Northern Burghs constituency.

However, it is not known whether Dicuil is speaking about Iceland, as Gaelic hermits also settled in other islands of the north such as Orkney and Shetland.

However, aside from traces of their lives there, their culture did not endure in the early history or character of Orkney.

However, the region is visited by more than 40, 000 tourists annually, the most popular destinations being the Antarctic Peninsula area ( especially the South Shetland Islands ) and South Georgia Island.

However, some local merchant-lairds took up where the German merchants had left off, and fitted out their own ships to export fish from Shetland to the Continent.

However, the industry faces challenges due to plagiarism of the word " Shetland " by manufacturers operating elsewhere and a certification trademark, " The Shetland Lady ", has been registered.

However, smaller horses can also excel ; for example, the third place competitor in the 2007 Rolex Kentucky Three Day CCI competition was Teddy O ' Connor, a 14. 1 hand gelding that was a cross of Thoroughbred, Arabian and Shetland pony breeding.

However due to Germany's geographic location, Great Britain could blockade Germany by closing the entrance to the North Sea in the English Channel and the area between Bergen and the Shetland Islands.

However, wishing to minimise the negative impacts of the industry, the Shetland Islands Council ( SIC ), with power granted to it by the UK Parliament in the 1974 Zetland County Council Act ( ZCC Act ), were able to contain all pipeline terminal facilities at the Sullom Voe site, now operated by BP on behalf of a consortium of companies operating in the North Sea and North Atlantic.

However, the Ciskes were Norwegian, and as Scotland had annexed Shetland a few decades before, there were confusing and conflicting claims of ownership.

However, it is not just Papil's etymology that suggests the site of an early church, confirmation has been found in the form of the " Monk's Stone ", which was dug up in Papil and which is now in the Shetland Museum.

However, this was largely a part-time venture, unlike in Shetland, where many inhabitants made a living from fishing.

However, some local merchant-lairds took up where the German merchants had left off, and fitted out their own ships to export fish from Shetland to the Continent.

However, the Ciskes were Norwegian, and as Scotland had annexed Shetland a few decades before, there were confusing and conflicting claims of ownership.

However, for the 2006 season services to Stord have been discontinued, and Edinburgh replaced by the Shetland Islands.

However, the North East of Scotland, i. e. Aberdeenshire Aberdeenshire ( historic ), Banffshire, Morayshire and Nairnshire Nairn ( boundaries ), is the heart of Hay country with other significant concentrations of Hays being found in Perthshire, especially around Perth, in the Scottish Borders, and in Shetland.

However, just as all the buildings have not fallen and flowed back to their original mud, so the values which wanted them and saw that they were built have not all disappeared.

However, Biblical scholars frequently attested to its numerous inaccuracies, as old manuscripts were uncovered and scholarship advanced.

However, last night the tapes were not run at all during the evening hours and all we got on TV were a few snatches which Douglas Edwards and Huntley and Brinkley could squeeze into their programs.

However, it determined that neither this factor, nor `` the fact that all concerned in high executive posts in both companies acted honorably and fairly, each in the honest conviction that his actions were in the best interests of his own company and without any design to overreach anyone, including Du Pont's competitors '', outweighed the Government's claim for relief.

However, they do demonstrate the presence of large normal pressures in the presence of flat shear fields which were forecast by the theory in the first part of the paper.

However, the statistical offices of both governments were assigned responsibility for the planning and analysis of these statistics.

However, they were hostile to Jewish Orthodoxy, professing to believe in Judaism `` but in a moderate way ''.

However, the positions of all parties and leaders were constantly shifting.

However, the wei books were also destroyed in a series of Orthodox Confucian purges which culminated in a final proscription in 605.

However, while usually Greek festivals were celebrated at the full moon, all the feasts of Apollo were celebrated at the seventh day of the month, and the emphasis given to that day ( sibutu ) indicates a Babylonian origin.

However, recent work suggests that some agnostids were benthic predators, engaging in cannibalism and possibly manifesting pack-hunting behavior.

However, they were generally occupied for a mere 30 years or less.

However, data from the National Statistical Service shows that there were only 65, 000 foreigners staying in Armenian hotels in 2009.

However, by mid-1837 the South Australian Register was warning of escaped convicts from New South Wales, and tenders for a temporary gaol were sought.

However, these claims were given up in about 1870 during the War of the Pacific between Chile, the allied Bolivia and Peru, in a diplomatic deal to keep Argentina out of the war.

However, tyrannosaurid forelimbs were extremely small for their body size and retained only two digits.

However, this theory is undermined by the disproportional fear of spiders in comparison to other, potentially dangerous creatures that were present during Homo sapiens environment of evolutionary adaptiveness.

However, no incidents of violence against spring breakers were reported.

However, if we look for the peoples in the region from the upper Main in the north, south to the Danube and east to the Czech Republic where the Quadi and Marcomanni were located, Ptolemy does not give any tribes.

However, this was halted as a report reached Constantinople that the Safavids were invading the Ottoman Empire, causing a period of panic, turning the Sultan's attention away from Russia.

However, Margaret Sleeboom-Faulkner of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Sussex said Kanzō Umehara considered the Ainu and some Ryukyuans to have " preserved their proto-Mongoloid traits " According to anthropologist Elsie Clews Parsons physical features of the Proto-Mongoloid were characterized as, " a straight-haired type, medium in complexion, jaw protrusion, nose-breadth, and inclining probably to round-headedness ".

However, before they were to gain entry into the sanctuary, Straboromanos and royal guards caught up with them to summon them back to the palace.

However, later that month, on 22 January, the English were defeated at the Battle of Basing and, on the 22 March at the Battle of Merton ( perhaps Marden in Wiltshire or Martin in Dorset ), in which Æthelred was killed.