The Orkneyinga Saga provides this description of Thorfinn: Earl Sigurd had also been a ruler of the Suðreyar but these holdings appear to have escaped the control of the earls of Orkney at the time of his death or shortly thereafter. King Máel Coluim set Thorfinn up as ruler of Caithness and Sutherland with Scots advisors to rule for him. When the news of Sigurd's death came, Thorfinn's older half-brothers divided Orkney and Shetland between them. Before setting out for Ireland, he had sent Thorfinn, then aged five, to be fostered by his maternal grandfather, the King of Scots. The locations of Orkney, Shetland, the Hebrides, Mann and various mainland territories in the late 11th centuryĮarl Sigurd was killed at the Battle of Clontarf on 23 April 1014.
His elder half-brothers Einar, Brusi and Sumarlidi survived to adulthood, while another brother called Hundi died young in Norway, a hostage at the court of King Olaf Trygvasson.
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Thorfinn was the youngest of the five known sons of Earl Sigurd Hlodvirsson, but the only son of Sigurd's marriage to an unknown daughter of King Malcolm II (Máel Coluim mac Cináeda). Much of the information the latter contains is "hard to corroborate" although it is a "generally credible" narrative in this context. The main sources are St Olaf's saga and the more detailed Orkneyinga Saga, which were first compiled in Iceland in the early 13th century. The sources for Thorfinn's life are almost exclusively Norse sagas, which were written down long after the time of the events in his life they record. His life has been the subject of various works of historical fiction. His diplomacy with the Norwegian court has also been interpreted in various ways. There are numerous problems associated with the chronology of Thorfinn's life and in identifying his relationships to the southern polities of the Kingdom of Alba (the precursor to modern Scotland) and the Kingdom of Moray. On his death in the latter half of the 11th century he was followed as earl by his sons Paul and Erlend. In his later years he went on a pilgrimage to Rome and he was instrumental in making Orkney and Shetland part of mainstream Christendom. A sizeable part of the latter saga's account concerns his wars with a "King of Scots" named Karl Hundason whose identity is uncertain. The Heimskringla of 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 and that he ruled substantial territories beyond the Northern Isles. Thorfinn married Ingibiorg Finnsdottir, daughter of Finn Arnesson, Jarl of Halland. He ruled alone as jarl for about a third of the time that he held the title and jointly with one or more of his brothers or with his nephew Rögnvald Brusason for the remainder. He was the youngest of five sons of Jarl Sigurd Hlodvirsson and the only one resulting from Sigurd's marriage to a daughter of Malcolm II of Scotland.
1065), also known as Thorfinn the Mighty ( Old Norse: Þorfinnr inn riki), was an 11th-century Jarl of Orkney. Þorfinnr inn riki - "Thorfinn the Mighty"
Jointly with Brusi Sigurdsson and Einar Sigurdsson to 1020, with Brusi to 1031, alone to 1036, with Rögnvald Brusason 1036 to 1046, alone to c.
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