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Male Earl of Orkney Thorfin (The Black) Sigurdsson II Click to view Earl of Orkney Thorfin (The Black) Sigurdsson II in the family tree

Thorfin, known as The Black, was born in 0989 in Orkney, Scotland.1   The Black's father was Jarl of Orkney and Caithness Sigurd Digri Hlodversson II and his mother was Anleta (Thora Donada) MacKenneth.  His paternal grandparents were Earl of Orkney Hlodver (Lodar) Thorfinnsson and Audna Kjarvalssdatter of Ireland; his maternal grandparents were Malcolm of Scotland II and Edith de Ossory. He had a brother and two sisters, named Brusi, Ellen and Ingaborg.  He was the second oldest of the four children.  He died at the age of 75 in 1064 in Christ's Kirk, Birdsey, Scotland.1 

Family Details of The Black's family with Ingibiorg Finnsdottir

1 http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=bevangenealogy&id=I9720&style=TABLE
Further source/citation:
http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jdp-fam&id=I24497

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