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1. The Orkneys are one of Scotland's richest farming regions. (Web site)

Shetland Islands

1. Harald Fairhair subdues the rovers on the Orkneys and Shetland Islands and adds them to his kingdom. (Web site)

Scotland

1. Most work on the reconstruction of Neolithic society has been done in the British Isles, particularly in the Orkneys, north of Scotland.

Stout

1. Under their Chief Stirgud the Stout, the Vikings violently attacked the Orkneys and Northern Scotland in the 9th century.
2. Earl Sigurd Hlodvirsson (Sigurd the Stout) was the 14th Jarl of the Orkneys and a key figure in the Battle of Clontarf. (Web site)

Shetlands

1. Christian pawned (and never redeemed) the Norwegian possessions of the Orkneys and Shetlands to the king of Scotland as security for a dowry. (Web site)

Islands

1. The geography of the Orkneys placed the islands and their inhabitants on a maritime frontier between Norway and Scotland.
2. The Orkneys ("Orcades") and Isle of Man were typically also mentioned in descriptions of the islands.
3. The ultimate Antarctic voyage includes the Antarctic Peninsula and the islands of the Scotia Sea � the Falklands, South Georgia, and the South Orkneys.

Larger Islands

1. Also included are the thousands of small islands off the coast of both the larger islands such as the Shetlands and the Orkneys. (Web site)

Earl

1. Sitric, king of Dublin visited Sigurd, earl of the Orkneys who agreed to be in Dublin on Palm Sunday 1014. (Web site)
2. The earl of the Orkneys will bring a fleet and army to Dublin, before Easter, to assist the Norse king in overwhelming the king of all Ireland, Brian Boru.
3. At that time Sigurd Lodverson, Earl of the Orkneys, had harried in the South-isles, and all the way west to Man. (Web site)

Earl Sigurd

1. To compound his problems, the Norse contingents, led by Earl Sigurd of the Orkneys and Brodir of the Isle of Man, arrived on Palm Sunday, the 18 April.

Iceland

1. In addition, native Norwegian settlers often married women from Norse Ireland, the Orkneys, or Shetlands before settling in the Faroe Islands and Iceland. (Web site)
2. Trade between Gaul and Britain was already routine; fishermen and others would travel to the Orkneys, Iceland, Norway or Shetland.

Faroes

1. Viking earldoms also were the Orkneys, Faroes, and Shetlands.

Orkneys

1. But the discontented, "and they were a great multitude," fled oversea to the outlands, Iceland, the Faroes, the Orkneys, and Ireland. (Web site)
2. It is the story of the First Crusade, told by a youth from the Orkneys, a large group of islands off the north coast of Scotland.
3. The Vikings established themselves in coastal regions, usually in northern Scotland, and in the northern isles such as the Orkneys and Shetland. (Web site)

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