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Heimskringla

by Snorri Sturluson

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2 Of the Earls of Orkney

A year or two after King Magnus Barefoot’s fall, Hakon, a son of Earl Paul, came from Orkney. The kings gave him the earldom and government of the Orkney Islands, as the earls before him, his father Paul or his Uncle Erland, had possessed it; and Earl Hakon then sailed back immediately to Orkney.

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