The Northern earldoms : Orkney and Caithness from AD 870 to 1470 /: Orkney and Caithness from AD 870 to 1470. (2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Barbara E. Crawford.
• Other Names: Crawford, B. E
• Contents: Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication page; Contents; List of Plates; List of Figures; Preface and Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1971-2012; Earls and Kings; Joint Earldoms; Bibliographical References for Introduction; 1 Between Norway and Scotland: Joint Earldoms and Divided Loyalties; 1.2 Earls of Different Kingdoms; 1.3 Historical Approaches; 1.4 Lordship; 1.3.2 Genealogies; 1.3.1 Local historians; 1.2.2 Borders and frontiers; 1.2.1 Peripheral communities; 1.1.1 Waterways, lordships and power centres; 1.1 Political and Maritime Contexts. 2 The Sources of Knowledge about the Joint Earldoms: Documentary Survival and Historical Reality2.1 Evaluation of Jarls' Saga (Orkneyinga Saga); 2.2 Runic Inscriptions; 2.3 Latin Documents; 2.4 Norwegian Documents; 2.5 Scots Documents and the 'Genealogy of the Earls'; 2.6 Liturgical Fragments; 2.7 Material Evidence; 2.7.3 Seals; 2.7.2 Secular residences: Birsay and Kirkwall; 2.7.1 Ecclesiastical foundations; 3 Viking Earls: AD 870-1030; 3.1 Mythical Origin; 3.2 Creation of the Earldom of Orkney; 3.4 The Tenth Century -- Survival and Accommodation; 3.6.4 Division of the earldoms. 3.6.3 Campaigns to the Hebrides and internal rivalries3.6.2 Caithness contested between Earl and Mormaer; 3.6.1 Relationship with Olaf Haraldsson; 3.6 Earl Thorfinn 'the Mighty' (hinn ríki); 3.5.3 Earl Sigurd digri's conversion and death; 3.5.2 Hoards, arm-rings and an earldom economy; 3.5.1 Expansion south and west; 3.5 Sigurd II Hlodversson 'the Stout' (digri); 3.4.3 Earldom contacts beyond Caithness and Orkney; 3.4.2 Struggle for control of Caithness; 3.4.1 Einar: the one-eyed slave-born earl (fl. 900). 3.3.2 Place-name and archaeological evidence for Norse settlement on the north mainland of Scotland3.3.1 Sigurd I's death and burial c.892; 3.3 Earl Sigurd I 'the Mighty' (hinn ríki); 3.2.2 King and jarl; 3.2.1 Economic interests; 3.1.2 Title of jarl; 3.1.1 Nordic significance of the origin myth; 4 Medieval Earls: 1050-1150; 4.1 Earl Thorfinn's Founding of the Orkney Bishopric; 4.2 Military Organisation and Earldom Authority in the West; 4.4 Twelfth-century Earldom Society; 4.5 Aspiring Earls and Scottish Influence; 4.6 Aspects of Political Geography in the Twelfth-century Earldoms. 4.6.2 Castles4.6.1 Scapa Flow; 4.4.3 Frakokk and Clan Moddan, and the Celto-Norse society of Caithness and Sutherland; 4.4.2 Rognvald Kali Kolsson; 4.4.1 Events in Caithness; 4.3.2 Rival earls; 4.3.1 Royal ambitions and the role of the Orkney earldom; 4.3 Hierarchy of Power: Magnus Olafsson 'Barelegs'(Berfættr) and the Earls; 4.2.4 Eulogy of Earl Thorfinn and developments after his death; 4.2.3 Ingibjorg 'Earls'-mother'(jarlamóðir) and problems of chronology; 4.2.2 Thorfinn's 'famous journey' and pilgrimage to Rome; 4.2.1 Ross -- the southern frontier.
• Publisher Details: Edinburgh : John Donald
• Publication Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource (xxiii, 440 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates), illustrations (chiefly color), maps
• Subjects: 941.132; HISTORY -- World; Orkney (Scotland) -- History -- To 1500; Caithness (Scotland) -- History -- To 1500; Scotland -- Caithness; Scotland -- Orkney; Skottland -- historia; Skottland -- Orkneyöarna -- historia; Skottland -- Caithness -- historia; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780857906182; 0857906186
• Related ISBNs: 9781904607915; 1904607918
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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