Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 243 pages of information about Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time.

Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 243 pages of information about Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time.

  Sweyn Breast-rope.

  Syre.

  Tankerness.

  Templar church of Orphir.

  Thanes;
    none of Moravia line in Sutherland.

  Thing (parliament), in Caithness.

  Thora, queen of Norway.

  Thora, mother of earl St. Magnus.

  Thorbiorn Klerk, grandson of Frakark;
    tutor to earl Harold Maddadson;
    m.  Ingirid, sister of Sweyn;
    his character;
    burned Waltheof;
    divorces Sweyn’s sister;
    instigated quarrel between earls in Thurso;
    viking raid;
    ambushed earl Ragnvald;
    burnt alive;
    no direct heirs.

  Thorbjorn in Burrafirth, Shetland.

  Thorfinn, son of Harold Maddadson;
    in rebellion against Scotland;
    promised as hostage to king William.

  Thorfinn, a farmer, C.

  Thorfinn Sigurdson, earl of Orkney and Caith.;
    birth;
    cr. earl of Caith. and Sutherland;
    ancestor of all subsequent Norse earls;
    established at Duncansby;
    character;
    claimed Orkney;
    war with Duncan I;
    at Deerness;
    Turfness;
    conquests in Fife;
    Ragnvald Brusi-son co-earl;
    raids on England;
    his wife, Ingibjorg;
    “king of Catanesse,”;
    claimed two-thirds of Orkney;
    sole earl;
    visited Rome;
    death;
    chronology;
    his widow m. king Malcolm Canmore;
    earl Erlend his grandson’s grandson.

  Thorfinn Torf-Einarson Hausa-kliufr (skull-cleaver), earl, m.  Grelaud.

  Thorgisl.

  Thorgisl, Saga of.

  Thorir Rognvaldson.

  Thorir Treskegg.

  Thorkel Amundson, or Fostri;
    at Sandvik, Deerness, slew Einar;
    and Moddan;
    and Ragnvald Brusi-son.

  Thorkel, son of Cathal Dhu of C.

  Thorleif, Frakark’s sister.

  Thorolf, bishop of Orkney.

  Thorsdale;
    valley of Thurso river.

  Thorstan the White.

  Thorstein the Red, seized C. and S.;
    father of Groa, who m.  Duncan, maormor of Cat.

  Thorstein, son of Hall O’ Side.

  Thurso;
    the river;
    earl Moddan killed at;
    Ottar, jarl in;
    earl Harold Maddadson seized;
    earls Ragnvald and Harold reconciled;
    St. Peter’s church;
    earls’ residence.

  Tighernac, The Annals of.

  Torfaeus, Orcades, q.v., for transl. see Pope, Alex.

  Torf-Einar Ragnvaldson, earl;
    slew Halfdan Halegg.

  Turfness (probably Burghead), Moray;
    battle;
    Ragnvald Kali went to;
    held by Norse.

  Tweed.

  Ulbster.

  Ulern.

  Ulf the Bad.

  Ulfreksfirth (Larne Bay).

  Ulster.

  Undal, Peter Clauson.

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