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...

Icelandic kings' sagas Orkneyinga saga (c. 1200), Fagrskinna (c. 1225), the Heimskringla ascribed to Snorri Sturluson (c. 1230), Egils saga (1220–1240), and...

sources for Sigurd's life are the Norse Heimskringla and Orkneyinga sagas. According to the sagas, after the Battle of Hafrsfjord unified the Norwegian kingdom...

Orkneyinga saga. This way, the reference would have included Lake Mjøsa, an area which is known to have been inhabited at that time: the Orkneyinga saga...

about the status of Strathclyde. A tradition in the thirteenth-century Orkneyinga saga related that Malcolm married the widow of Thorfinn Sigurdsson, Ingibiorg...

The Orkneyinga saga likely dates to in the early thirteenth century and belongs to belongs to the genre of "Kings’ Sagas" within Icelandic saga literature...

is told in three Norse sagas: Orkneyinga saga (chapters 34–57); Magnús saga skemmri; and Magnús saga lengri. The Orkneyinga Saga was first written down...

Göngu-Hrólfr; Danish Ganger-Hrólf) from the 13th-century Icelandic sagas, Heimskringla and Orkneyinga Saga. Hrólf the Walker was so named because he "was so big that...

are recounted in the Orkneyinga Saga, which was first written down in the early 13th century by an unknown Icelandic author. The saga provides few accurate...

Nór (Old Norse Nórr) is according to the Orkneyinga Saga the eponymous founder of Norway. Nór of Norway appear in “Fundinn Nóregr” (‘Norway Founded’)...

a prominent part in Scottish politics of the twelfth century. The Orkneyinga Saga names him one of the three most powerful Earls of Orkney along with...

Erlendsson from 1105 to 1123. Their lives and times are recounted in the Orkneyinga saga, which was first written down in the early 13th century by an unknown...

"by foot") is identified by the saga writers with Rollo, founder of the Duchy of Normandy (in 911). In the Orkneyinga saga Rognvald was made the Earl of...

"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 and...

with certainty. She married Earl Thorfinn Sigurdsson of Orkney. The Orkneyinga Saga claims that Kalf Arnesson, Ingibiorg's uncle, was exiled in Orkney...

was a 10th-century Earl of Orkney. He appears in the Orkneyinga saga and briefly in St Olaf's Saga, as incorporated into the Heimskringla. These stories...

Shetland, in 875 (it is clear that this story, which appears in the Orkneyinga Saga, is based on the later voyages of Magnus Barelegs and some scholars...

Hafrsfjord in the late 9th century, many fled from Norway. According to the Orkneyinga saga, some of these Vikings began to raid Norway in summer from the Orkney...

sources is weak, with the Irish annals and the later Norse sagas, of which the Orkneyinga saga is the principal source of information, sometimes contradictory...

in 875; although it is clear that this story, which appears in the Orkneyinga Saga, is based on the later voyages of Magnus Barelegs, and some scholars...

Icelandic historian Snorri Sturluson, and the anonymous compiler of the Orkneyinga Saga wrote that Thorfinn was the most powerful of all the jarls of Orkney...

Marianus says, he gave money to the poor as if it were seed. The Orkneyinga Saga says that a dispute between Thorfinn Sigurdsson, Earl of Orkney, and...

proposes the spelling variations: Aberdaen Aberdin Aberdene Abrydene The Orkneyinga saga records an Old Norse variant of the name, Apardion, clearly cognate...

almost exclusively Irish, English or Norse. The main Norse text is the Orkneyinga Saga, which should be treated with care as it was based on oral traditions...

In the þulur, Fornjót is also included in a list of jötnar. In the Orkneyinga saga and in Hversu Noregr byggdisk (How Norway Was Settled), Fornjót is...

According to the Orkneyinga saga, Eystein Glumra was the son of Ivar Halfdansson and grandson of Halfdan the Old. The Orkneyinga Saga also named Eystein...

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 Haraldsson...

mention Kvenland, Hversu Noregr byggðist and Orkneyinga saga, do not use that specific title. In Orkneyinga saga, Fornjót is said to be "a king". It is stated...

in the Heimskringla, which is of a similar vintage to the Orkneyinga saga. Torf-Einarr's Saga itself is now lost and a short passage is recorded in the...