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

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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.

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* 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.

Wace, writing some 300 years after the event in his Roman de Rou, also mentions the two brothers ( as Rou and Garin ), as does the Orkneyinga Saga.

Here also are preserved the only Icelandic versions of the Orkneyinga saga (" History of the Orkney Islanders ") and Færeyinga saga (" History of the Faroe Islanders ").

A similar story also appears in the Orkneyinga saga, but in this account, Sweyn stays indoors and is burnt to death:

A similar account also appears in the Orkneyinga saga, but in this account, Sweyn stays indoors and is burnt to death:

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.

Interestingly, Maeshowe is called Orkahaugr in the 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.

But it is from Halfan the Old who is called a descendant of Gór from whom springs at last the Jarls of Orkney who are the subject of the Orkneyinga saga.

The Dornoch Firth was the boundary between " Cat " and Ross and was called " Ekkjal " ( Oykell ) by the Norse and it is mentioned in the Orkneyinga saga.

* Anon., Orkneyinga Saga: The History of the Earls of Orkney, tr.

* Orkneyinga Saga: The History of the Earls of Orkney.

** Orkneyinga Saga: The History of the Earls of Orkney.

* Anon., Orkneyinga Saga: The History of the Earls of Orkney, tr.

* Anon., Orkneyinga Saga: The History of the Earls of Orkney, tr.

Orkneyinga Saga: The History of the Earls of Orkney.

Orkneyinga Saga: The History of the Earls of Orkney.

Orkneyinga Saga: The History of the Earls of Orkney.

Everyone agrees that of all the Earls of Orkney Rögnvald Brusason was the most popular and gifted, and his death was mourned by many ( Orkneyinga saga Ch.

The Orkneyinga Saga says that a dispute between Thorfinn Sigurdsson, Earl of Orkney, and Karl Hundason began when Karl Hundason became " King of Scots " and claimed Caithness.

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.

The famous Orkneyinga Saga however, although it pertains to the Earldom of Orkney, was written in Iceland.

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.

Lavery cites a tale from the Orkneyinga saga, according to which King Malcolm III of Scotland offered Earl Magnus of Orkney all the islands off the west coast navigable with the rudder set.

The story of the life of Magnus Erlendsson, Earl of Orkney was one to which Brown frequently turned, and it was the theme of his next novel, Magnus, published in 1973. The story of Magnus's life is told in Orkneyinga saga., The novel examined the themes of sanctity and self-sacrifice.

The Orkneyinga saga records another Viking raid, by Sweyn Asleifsson, and Margad Grimsson, after they had been expelled from Orkney by Earl Rögnvald, that they went raiding on the eastern seaboard of Scotland:

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.