context: Beuermann (2011) speculates that Rognvald's transfer of power to his brother may have been an attempt by the saga writers to imply that the Orkney earldom had more independence from Norway than that of Rognvald's earldom of Møre and that the earl's holdings in Caithness may have allowed for an even greater degree of freedom of action.
source: Such implications are more likely to be rooted in the writer's interest in emphasising Orcadian independence at the time of writing rather than the 9th/10th century events they purport to describe.
reference_original: Такая интерпретация ситуации, скорее всего, коренится в заинтересованности писателя подчеркнуть независимость Оркадии на момент написания, а не в событиях IX–X веков, описанных в саге.
reference_flipped: Такая интерпретация ситуации, скорее всего, коренится в заинтересованности писательницы подчеркнуть независимость Оркадии на момент написания, а не в событиях IX–X веков, описанных в саге.