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Orkney and Shetland Folk

A. W. Johnston

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .uml;fðingi ok herskár, and died of sickness, sótt-dauðr, and was buried in a mound, heygðr, in Rögnvaldsey á Haugs-eiði, at Hoxa. The Saga reads á Hauga-heiði, wrongly; this isthmus would have been called Haugs-eið, how’s isthmus, because the Norse found on it a large mound, which covered the ruins of a pre-Norse round tower, in which the earl may have been buried.

His children were earls Arnfinnr, Hávarðr ár-sæli (of prosperous years), Hlöðver, Ljótr or Arnljótr, and Skúli, and two daughters. Three of his five sons married, in turn, the murdress Ragnhildr, daughter of king Eiríkr blóðöx and the notorious Gunnhildr. She killed her first husband herself. The second husband was killed by his nephew Einarr klíningr (butter), at the instigation of his aunt, who promised to marry him, and for which deed he was thought to . . . Read More