Expanded from a presidential address to the Viking Society for Northern Research, this history follows the far north of Scotland from the Picts and the Norse arrival through the jarls of Orkney, Thorfinn among them, using the sagas where Scottish records fall silent. Gray then turns to the Freskyn family and the disputed succession to the earldom of Caithness after 1231.
A detailed regional history for readers of the Orkneyinga saga and the Norse in Scotland. Download the free EPUB.