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- The Orkneyinga saga (Old Norse: [ˈorknˌœyjeŋɡɑ ˈsɑɣɑ]; also called the History of the Earls of Orkney and Jarls' Saga) is a narrative of the history of...
- exist in various versions known to have influenced each other. In the Orkneyinga saga, the blood eagle is described as a sacrifice to Odin. Þar fundu þeir...
- mother's side of the family. Their lives and times are recounted in the Orkneyinga Saga, which was first written down in the early 13th century by an unknown...
- about the status of Strathclyde. A tradition in the thirteenth-century Orkneyinga saga related that Malcolm married the widow of Thorfinn Sigurdsson, Ingibiorg...
- told in three Norse sagas: Orkneyinga saga (chapters 34–57); Magnús saga skemmri; and Magnús saga lengri. The Orkneyinga Saga was first written down...
- The two main sources for Sigurd's life are the Norse Heimskringla and Orkneyinga sagas. According to the sagas, after the Battle of Hafrsfjord unified...
- Nór (Old Norse Nórr) is according to the Orkneyinga Saga the eponymous founder of Norway. Nór of Norway appear in “Fundinn Nóregr” (‘Norway Founded’),...
- "Papeys" or "islands of the papar". Joseph Anderson noted that in the Orkneyinga saga "The two Papeys, the great and the little (anciently Papey Meiri...
- Thorfinn Sigurdsson from about 1037 onwards. His life is recorded in the Orkneyinga Saga. Rognvald was taken by his father to Norway, to the court of Olaf...
- Orkneyinga saga says that Rognvald was the son of Eystein Ivarsson and grandson of Ívarr Upplendingajarl. He was married, according to the Orkneyinga...