Odin; blood-eagle rite; worshipped by Norse in Britain; Sigurd Hlodverson died fighting for; and defeated at Clontarf.
Olaf, king of Norway; received Thorfinn Sigurdson, earl of Orkney and Caithness; and Thorkel Fostri; his award; killed at Stiklastad.
Olaf's Saga, St.; account of earls of Orkney.
Olaf Tryggvi's-son; conversion of Sigurd Hlodverson.
Olaf Tryggvason Saga; account of earls of Orkney.
Olaf Bitling, king of the Sudreys; m. Ingibiorg, daughter of earl Hakon.
Olaf the White, king of Dublin; invasion of Scotland.
Olaf Hrolfson, father of Sweyn and Gunni.
Olaf, son-in-law of earl Harold Maddadson.
Old-Lore Miscellany (Viking Society); Darratha-liod; authorship O.S.; _Orkney and Shetland Folk_.
Oliphant family; charters, earldom of Caithness.
Olvir Rosta; grandson of Frakark; aid sought by earl Ragnvald; defeated in sea fight; burned Sweyn's father, Olaf; fled before Sweyn and not heard of afterwards; no direct heirs; his contemporary, Freskyn I; supposed ancestor of Macaulays.
Orcades, of Torfaeus; for transl. see Pope, Alex.
Ord of Caithness; king William marched his army to, against earl Harald; Man of.
Orkney; St. Kentigern's mission; Picts; influence of Gael on Norse; foundation of Norse earldom; earls' attacks on north of Scotland; succession of earls; converted by Olaf Tryggvi's son; under Norway; first cathedral and bishop's seat at Birsay; double bishops; a contingent in expedition against Saxons; trade with Grimsby; the bishops; Sweyn's viking life; agriculture; invasion of earl Harald Ungi; earl Harold Maddadson, after defeat by Ragnvald Gudrodson, fled to; Cobbie Row Castle, in; the gaedingar of the earl of Orkney; king Hakon at; and died in Kirkwall, in the palace of bishop; mortgaged to Scotland; adopted English with many Norse words; old Norse ballad sung in 18th cent.; proposed Scot. conquest after Norse reverse at Largs; annular eclipse of sun in 1263; Orkney and Shetland colonised mainly from the fjords north of Bergen; see also Orkney and Caithness, earls of.
Orkney and Caithness, earls of; (see also under their individual names); Ragnvald; Sigurd Eysteinson; Guthorm Sigurdson; Hallad Ragnvaldson; Torf-Einar Ragnvaldson; Arnkell, Erlend and Thorfinn Hausa-kliufr, sons of Torf-Einar; Arnfinn, Havard, Hlodver, Ljot and Skuli, sons of Thorfinn; Sigurd Hlodverson; Somarled, Brusi, Einar and Thorfinn, sons of Sigurd; Ragnvald Brusi's son; Paul Thorfinnson; Erlend Thorfinnson; Sigurd Magnusson, son of k. Magnus Barelegs; Hakon Paulson; St. Magnus Erlendson; Paul Hakonson the Silent; Harald Hakonson Slettmali; Erlend Haraldson; St. Ragnvald Kolson; Harald Ungi; Harold Maddadson; David Haroldson; John Haroldson; no pedigree of earls after John; diploma of earls unreliable; various theories as to genealogy of the earls after John; no claim to earldom of Orkney by Johanna of Strathnaver; diploma on earldom of Sutherland; Malcolm, earl of C. and Angus; Magnus II, son of Gilchrist, earl of Angus; Gibbon; Magnus III Gibbonson; Malise II, heir of Matilda, dau. of earl Gibbon; the earldom acquired through females; unknown earls; MacWilliam; Gilbert; Olaf.