Orkney and Shetland Folk, (Viking Society,
Old-lore Miscellany and
reprint), A.W.
Johnston.
Orkney and Shetland, (Tudor);
Ellar-holm.
Orkney and Shetland Records, (Viking Society).
Orkneyinga Saga (Rolls text and transl.);
historical record until 12th
cent.;
battle of Turfness;
Thorfinn’s life;
St. Magnus;
authorship;
Ragnvald and Sweyn Saga;
its end;
Somarled the Freeman slain;
earl Harold Maddadson’s
family;
earls;
Wick and Thurso;
transl. by Hjaltalin and Goudie;
Thorfinn’s residence
in C;
residence of Frakark;
Atjokl’s Bakki.
Orm, earl;
m. Sigrid, not Ingibjorg,
dau. of Finn Arnason.
Orphir;
the earl’s hall burned;
round church;
incident of the poisoned shirt;
earl Paul’s Yule feast,
Sweyn slew Sweyn;
Jarls’ Bu;
earl Ragnvald at.
Orphir;
The Round Church and Earl’s
Bu of, (Viking Society Saga-Book),
A.W. Johnston.
Osmundwall, or Kirk Hope, Orkney;
conversion of Sigurd Hlodverson;
king Hakon’s fleet in.
Oswy, king.
Ottar, earl in Thurso;
his heir;
son of Moddan in Dale;
probably owned Thurso valley;
paid wergeld to Sweyn;
his lands left to earl Erlend
Haraldson, and afterwards went to
Eric Stagbrellir;
his estates, forming the Moddan
lands in Caith., held by Ragnhild
and Gunni;
Johanna of Strathnaver a connection.
Ottar, son of Snaekoll Gunnison.
Ousedale, or Eysteinsdal.
Oxford Essays, (Sir G.W. Dasent);
Norsemen in Iceland.
Oykel;
boundary between Cat and Ross;
identified as the Norse Ekkjal;
family of Freskyn de Moravia
settled north of the;
in Sweyn’s track to
burn Frakark;
crossed by king William.
Papa Stronsay.
Papa Westray.
Paplay;
location.
Paul Hakonson, the Silent, earl of Orkney
and Caith.;
his mother, 52;
lived in Orkney, 58;
banished Frakark and Helga
from Orkney, 59;
sole earl, 60;
not a speaker at things, 60;
refused to share earldom with
St. Ragnvald, 61;
defeated earl Ragnvald, 62;
seized his fleet in Shetland,
62;
yule feast at Orphir, 62;
kidnapped by Sweyn, 62;
deported to Athole, his fate,
63.
Paul Thorfinnson, earl of Orkney and Caith.;
joint earl of O. with his
brother Erlend;
at battle of Stamford Bridge;
banished to Norway, where
he died;
his descendants;
his daughters;
Scottish policy regarding
later succession in Caithness;
Skene’s theory as to
Johanna of Strathnaver;
the converse theory;
John the last male of Paul’s
line;
his share of earldom of C.,
descended to daughter and Angus line
of C. earls.