General Notes

EARLDOM of ORKNEY [NOR] - subject to King of Norway until after 1379
Jarl Ragnvald then gave the Earldom to his next [illegitimate] son, Einar
I (called Turf-Einar because he introduced the use of turf as fuel among
his islanders),and gave him one longship and manned it for his use.
Einar went to Shetland to gather a force, and thence south to the
Orkneys, which had been occupied bythe Danish pirates, Thori Tree-beard
and Kalf Skurfa, both of whom he killedcirca 894. Halfdan Haaleg, King
Harald Haarfagri’s son, unexpectedly raidedOrkney after the burning of
Jarl Ragnvald circa 894, and Turf-Einar fled, butreturned, surprised
Halfdan, defeated him, and next day captured him and cuta "spread-eagle"
or "erne" upon his back in order to avenge Jarl Ragnvald. King Harald
Haarfagri came with a fleet to the Orkneys circa 895, and collected a
fine of 60 marks of gold from Jarl Turf-Einar for the slaughter of his
son Halfdan Haaleg. The name of Jarl Turf-Einar’s wife and the date of
his death are not recorded; but he "ruled over the Orkneys for a long
time and diedof sickness." He had 3 sons: Arnkel, Erlend I and Thorfinn.
[Complete Peerage, X:Appendix A:4-5]
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The following was copied from Martha Jane Hicks web information. I used
her pedigree for portions of my own Scandinavian pedigrees:
The data in this section of royal Norwegian genealogy was compiled by
historians, Anders Stilloff, and Ola Robøle Hegge of Norway and presented
in chart format by Carl M. Ringen Gunderson. Thelineage presented here
was given to me as part of my ancestry by genealogistBetty Rockswold,
associated with the Valdres Samband Lag organization. When asked about
the research done on the lineage, she said: "It would take a 'volume' to
describe the connections to royalty of the Kvåle line." She goes on to
say that she sent a copy of the material to her skeptic cousin, Herman
Nettum, in East Toten who is a noted genealogist. After examination of
the chart, which Betty says she is sure he went over with a 'fine tooth
comb' huntingfor errors, his only criticism was that, while the lineage
was correct, no one knows the first name of Earl Thorfinn Sigurdson's
wife which was listed asbeing Ingeborg. It appears that the lineage in
this database links to Scandinavian royalty insofar as the genealogy
accounts written by the medieval writers is correct. The vice consul of
Norway, Lars Løberg, says that the medievalwriters, most notably Snorri
Sturluson, may have had a political motive forpresenting the royal line
as an old Norwegian dynasty. Since the lineage in this database ties to
the traditionally accepted royalty line, it is presentedhere.)
[Martha Jane Hicks - mjhicks1, worldconnect.rootsweb.com]