num_pages: 227
description: This is the history of the Orkneymen, Earls and Odallers of Norwegian extraction who established an Earldom of Norway in the northern isles of Scotland more than a thousand years ago, and whose descendants held sway over the Hebrides and northern mainland Scotland for several centuries.Commencing with the conquest of the Isles by Harald Harfagri, the Saga relates the subsequent history of the Earldom of Orkney under thelong line of Norse Jarls, and is, for a period of three and a half centuries, the principal authority for the history of northern Scotland.
language: English
title: The Orkneyinga Saga
titlecomplete: The Orkneyinga Saga
characters: Sigurd Eysteinsson, Svein Asleifarson, Máel Brigte, Harald Hárfagri, Ingibjörg Finnsdóttir, Saint Magnus, Karl Hundason, Einarr Rognvaldarson, Rögnvald Kali Kolsson, Thorfinn Sigurdsson, Paul Thorfinnsson, Sigurd Hlodvirsson
genres: Literature, 13th Century, History, Classics, Scotland, Mythology, Medieval, Poetry, Folklore, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 666
places: Orkney, Scotland
publisher: Mercat Press