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Thorfinn Sigurdsson (1009? – c. 1058?), also known as Thorfinn the Mighty [6] (Old Norse: Þorfinnr inn riki), was an 11th-century Jarl of Orkney.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.
Hlodvir Thorfinnsson (Old Norse: HlÇ«ðvir Þorfinnsson; c. 945 –988), was a Viking leader who served as Jarl of Orkney, overseeing the Northern Isles from about 980 to 987. [1] He is mentioned in the Orkneyinga saga, as well as in the sagas of Óláfr Tryggvason and St. Olaf. Beyond the saga records of Hlodvir, little verifiable information ...
Woolf (2007) suggests that Torfinn's death provoked Magnus's expedition, and that this was the occasion on which Paul and Erlend Thorfinnsson submitted to Harald. [7] Whatever the timing, on the death of their father the brothers became joint earls although Paul, who was the elder of the two, was "very much the one in charge".
Notes 1] He was succeeded by his son Thorfinn Skull-splitter (c.910–963) and during this time the deposed Norwegian King Eric Bloodaxe often used Orkney as a raiding base before being killed in 954. Thorfinn's death and presumed burial at the broch of Hoxa, on South Ronaldsay, led to a long period of dynastic strife. [7] [8]
A Guizer Jarl has featured in each Lerwick Up Helly Aa since the introduction of the position in 1906. The Guizer Jarl is the chief guizer, who (in the modern festival) leads a squad dressed as Vikings who are the primary focus of the festival's proceedings. Only the Jarl's Squad dresses as Vikings; the festival's other squads dress up in other ...
Thorfinn Torf-Einarsson [1] also known as Thorfinn Skull-splitter [2] (from the Old Norse Þorfinnr hausakljúfr) [3] 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 were first written down in Iceland in the early 13th century and much of ...
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It is also said that the protagonist Thorfinn's father, Thors, was a Jomsviking until he became a pacifist, fleeing Jomsborg with his wife. In the 2003 Polish film An Ancient Tale: When the Sun Was a God by Jerzy Hoffman , Jomsvikings are portrayed as marauders in the service of the main antagonist Popiel .