The Orkneyinga saga reports that Malcolm married the widow of Thorfinn Sigurdsson, Ingibiorg, a daughter of Finn Arnesson.

* handrit. is ( previously Saganet ): Orkneyinga saga

These include the late 12th-century Norwegian synoptics – Historia Norwegiæ ( perhaps c. 1170 ), Theodoricus monachus ' Historia de antiquitate regum Norwagiensium ( c. 1180 ) and Ágrip af Nóregskonungasögum ( c. 1190 ) – and the later Icelandic kings ' sagas Orkneyinga saga ( c. 1200 ), Fagrskinna ( c. 1225 ), the Heimskringla ascribed to Snorri Sturluson ( c. 1230 ), Egils saga ( 1220 x 1240 ) and Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar en mesta ( c. 1300 ).

The Orkneyinga saga, written c. 1200, does speak of Eirik ’ s presence in Orkney and his alliance with the joint jarls Arnkel and Erland, sons of Torf-Einarr, but not until his rule in Northumbria was challenged by Olaf ( Amlaíb Cuarán ).

An example of a page from the Orkneyinga saga, as it appears in the 14th century Flatey Book.

The Orkneyinga saga ( also called the History of the Earls of Orkney ) is a historical narrative of the history of the Orkney Islands, from their capture by the Norwegian king in the ninth century onwards until about 1200.

** Saganet: Orkneyinga saga

* Proverbs and proverbial materials in Orkneyinga saga

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The town is first mentioned in Orkneyinga saga in the year 1046 when it is recorded as the residence of Rögnvald Brusason the Earl of Orkney, who was killed by his uncle Thorfinn the Mighty.

There are two Icelandic sagas of St Magnus's life, Magnus ' saga the shorter and longer as well as the account in the Orkneyinga Saga.

The Viking expeditions to Orkney are recorded in detail in the 11th century Orkneyinga sagas and later texts such as the Hákonar saga Hákonarsonar.

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The identity of Duncan's mother is given by the Orkneyinga saga.

The year in which Thorfinn Sigurdsson, Earl of Orkney, died is nowhere recorded with precision ( the Orkneyinga saga states that it was in the latter days of Magnus's father ).

Hnefatafl was mentioned in several of the medieval sagas, including Orkneyinga saga, Friðþjófs saga, Hervarar saga, and others.

However, Woolf ( 2005 ) asserts that " contrary to the image, projected by recent clan-historians, of Clann Somhairle as Gaelic nationalists liberating the Isles from Scandinavians, it is quite explicit in our two extended narrative accounts from the thirteenth century, Orkneyinga saga and The Chronicle of the Kings of Man and the Isles, that the early leaders of Clann Somhairle saw themselves as competitors for the kingship of the Isles on the basis of their descent through their mother Ragnhilt " and that their claim " to royal status was based on its position as a segment of Uí Ímair.

The Yngling " Fairhair dynasty " lineage introduced in Hversu Noregr byggðist (" How Norway was settled ") and the Orkneyinga and Heimskringla sagas suggests a line of Rollo going back to Fornjót, the primeval " king " who " reigned over " Finland and Kvenland.

The Hversu account is closely paralleled by the opening of the Orkneyinga saga.

They are known as Hversu Noregr byggdist and Orkneyinga saga.

Parallel but not quite identical accounts of Nór the eponym of Norway appear in Fundinn Noregr (' Norway Found '), hereafter called F, which begins the Orkneyinga saga, and in Hversu Noregr byggdist (' How Norway was Settled '), hereafter called B, both found in the Flatey Book.

This account cannot be reconiciled with the account in the Hversu and Orkneyinga saga without assuming multiple figures with the same names.

Otherwise this personage appears only in the Hversu and Orkneyinga saga accounts where Kári appears to be the heir to his father's kingdoms as in the Hversu Kári's descendants emerge also as rulers of Finland and Kvenland.

Kári is father of a son who is named Frosti (' frost ') according to the Orkneyinga saga but named Jökul ( jǫkull: ' icicle, ice, glacier ') according to the Hversu.

Snow's son in Orkneyinga saga and Hversu is Thorri ' frozen-snow '.

The Hversu account is closely paralleled by the opening of the Orkneyinga saga, which gives a slightly different version of the story and provides details on the descendants of Gór only, including information not found in the Hversu or Ættartölur.

: The Hversu account is closely paralleled by the opening of the Orkneyinga saga, which provides details on the descendants of Gór only, including information not found in the Hversu or Ættartölur.

In the medieval Orkneyinga saga and the account of Hversu Noregr byggðist (' How Norway was inhabited '), Fornjót is described as the King of Finland, Kvenland and Gotland.

The Hversu account is closely paralleled by the opening of the Orkneyinga saga.

The Orkneyinga Saga reports strife with Norway but this is probably misplaced as it associates this with Magnus Barefoot, who became king of Norway only in 1093, the year of Malcolm's death.

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 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.

The Orkneyinga saga contains a realistic description of Nór traveling from Kvenland to Norway.

According to Orkneyinga Saga, Nór founded Norway.

In 1230 AD, the Orkneyinga Saga provides information about the royal lineage of Fornjótr, the King of Finland, Kvenland and Gotland and the conquest of Norway by his descendant, Nór.

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.