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Female Ragnhild Paalsdatter Click to view Ragnhild Paalsdatter in the family tree

Ragnhild was born in 1078 in Orkney, Orkney Islands, Scotland.1   Ragnhild's father was Jarl of Orkney and Caithness Paul Thorfinnsson and her mother was Ragnhild Haakonsdatter.  Her paternal grandparents were Earl of Orkney Thorfin (The Black) Sigurdsson II and Ingibiorg Finnsdottir; her maternal grandparents were Haakon Ivarsson and Princess of Norway Ragnhild Magnusdatter. She had two brothers and four sisters, named Haakon, Brynjolf, Thora, Ingrid, Agatha and Herbiorg.  She was the second youngest of the seven children.

1 http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=bevangenealogy&id=I9750

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