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- Earldom_of_Orkney abstract "The Earldom of Orkney was a Norwegian dignity in Scotland which had its origins in the Viking period. The title of Earl of Orkney was passed down the same family line through to the Middle Ages. Orkney and Shetland to the north, lie off the northernmost tip of Caithness, Scotland. Picts came to Orkney during the Bronze Age and extant archaeological data shows that certainly, there were people living there prior to the Vikings who came to Orkney, probably by the latter part of the 8th century although this is up for dispute. Norwegian Vikings probably either came to the islands first as farmers who were seeking land or as warriors who were claiming territory and riches as was common with Viking conquests elsewhere. The question of whether the Picts were completely massacred by the settling Vikings, migrated away, or were assimilated, in peaceful coexistence and gentle mergeance, is a matter of contention. However, aside from traces of their lives there, their culture did not endure in the early history or character of Orkney. By the 12th century, Orkney was under Norwegian control and by the 13th century, the Orkneyingasaga was written in Iceland, providing one of the earliest and most repeated versions of the history of Norse life on these isles. The Orkneyingasaga is largely fictional however and was not, being written in Iceland, any sort of primary source. Instead, it should be culled for historical details with great care and these data should be matched and compared against data from other sources.".
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- Earldom_of_Orkney wikiPageWikiLink Bronze_Age_Britain.
- Earldom_of_Orkney wikiPageWikiLink Caithness.
- Earldom_of_Orkney wikiPageWikiLink Category:Earldoms_in_the_Peerage_of_Scotland.
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- Earldom_of_Orkney wikiPageWikiLink Category:Former_Norwegian_colonies.
- Earldom_of_Orkney wikiPageWikiLink Category:History_of_Orkney.
- Earldom_of_Orkney wikiPageWikiLink Category:History_of_Scotland.
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- Earldom_of_Orkney wikiPageWikiLink Category:Norwegian_monarchy.
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- Earldom_of_Orkney wikiPageWikiLink Christian_I.
- Earldom_of_Orkney wikiPageWikiLink Christian_I_of_Denmark.
- Earldom_of_Orkney wikiPageWikiLink Denmark.
- Earldom_of_Orkney wikiPageWikiLink Earl.
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- Earldom_of_Orkney wikiPageWikiLink Earl_of_Caithness.
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- Earldom_of_Orkney wikiPageWikiLink George_Hamilton,_1st_Earl_of_Orkney.
- Earldom_of_Orkney wikiPageWikiLink Haakon_VI_of_Norway.
- Earldom_of_Orkney wikiPageWikiLink Harald_Fairhair.
- Earldom_of_Orkney wikiPageWikiLink Harald_I.
- Earldom_of_Orkney wikiPageWikiLink Harald_I_Hårfagre.
- Earldom_of_Orkney wikiPageWikiLink Henry_I_Sinclair,_Earl_of_Orkney.
- Earldom_of_Orkney wikiPageWikiLink Jarl_(title).
- Earldom_of_Orkney wikiPageWikiLink Kingdom_of_the_Isles.
- Earldom_of_Orkney wikiPageWikiLink Magnus_Erlendsson,_Earl_of_Orkney.
- Earldom_of_Orkney wikiPageWikiLink Magnus_II,_Earl_of_Orkney.
- Earldom_of_Orkney wikiPageWikiLink Mary,_Queen_of_Scots.
- Earldom_of_Orkney wikiPageWikiLink Mormaer_of_Angus.
- Earldom_of_Orkney wikiPageWikiLink Mormaer_of_Caithness.
- Earldom_of_Orkney wikiPageWikiLink Mormaerdom_of_Caithness.
- Earldom_of_Orkney wikiPageWikiLink Norn_language.
- Earldom_of_Orkney wikiPageWikiLink Norway.
- Earldom_of_Orkney wikiPageWikiLink Orkney.
- Earldom_of_Orkney wikiPageWikiLink Orkneyinga_Saga.
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- Earldom_of_Orkney wikiPageWikiLink Picts.
- Earldom_of_Orkney wikiPageWikiLink Scotland.
- Earldom_of_Orkney wikiPageWikiLink Shetland.
- Earldom_of_Orkney wikiPageWikiLink St_Magnus_Cathedral.
- Earldom_of_Orkney wikiPageWikiLink St_Magnus_Cathedral,_Kirkwall.
- Earldom_of_Orkney wikiPageWikiLink Viking.
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- Earldom_of_Orkney wikiPageWikiLink File:Flag_of_the_Earldom_of_Orkney.png.
- Earldom_of_Orkney wikiPageWikiLinkText "Earldom of Orkney".
- Earldom_of_Orkney wikiPageWikiLinkText "Orcadian".
- Earldom_of_Orkney wikiPageWikiLinkText "Orkney".
- Earldom_of_Orkney wikiPageWikiLinkText "earl of Orkney".
- Earldom_of_Orkney wikiPageWikiLinkText "earldom of Orkney".
- Earldom_of_Orkney wikiPageWikiLinkText "earldom".
- Earldom_of_Orkney wikiPageWikiLinkText "the former Earldom".
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- Earldom_of_Orkney subject Category:Earldoms_in_the_Peerage_of_Scotland.
- Earldom_of_Orkney subject Category:Earls_of_Orkney.
- Earldom_of_Orkney subject Category:Former_Norwegian_colonies.
- Earldom_of_Orkney subject Category:History_of_Orkney.
- Earldom_of_Orkney subject Category:History_of_Scotland.
- Earldom_of_Orkney subject Category:Norse_activity_in_Scotland.
- Earldom_of_Orkney subject Category:Norway–Scotland_relations.
- Earldom_of_Orkney subject Category:Norwegian_monarchy.
- Earldom_of_Orkney subject Category:Norwegian_nobility.
- Earldom_of_Orkney hypernym Dignity.
- Earldom_of_Orkney type Monarchy.
- Earldom_of_Orkney type Monarchy.
- Earldom_of_Orkney comment "The Earldom of Orkney was a Norwegian dignity in Scotland which had its origins in the Viking period. The title of Earl of Orkney was passed down the same family line through to the Middle Ages. Orkney and Shetland to the north, lie off the northernmost tip of Caithness, Scotland.".
- Earldom_of_Orkney label "Earldom of Orkney".
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- Earldom_of_Orkney depiction Flag_of_the_Earldom_of_Orkney.png.
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