Download PDF by Barbara E. Crawford: The Northern Earldoms: Orkney and Caithness from AD 870 to

By Barbara E. Crawford

ISBN-10: 1904607918

ISBN-13: 9781904607915

The medieval earldoms of Orkney and Caithness have been located among worlds, the Norwegian and the Scottish. They have been a maritime lordship divided, or united, through the turbulent waters of the Pentland Firth. This not likely blend of island and mainland territory survived as a unmarried lordship for six hundred years, opposed to the percentages. turning out to be out of the Viking maelstrom of the early center a long time, it grew to become a longtime and prosperous principality which ruled northern waters, with a popular dynasty of earls. regardless of their peripheral place those earls have been totally involved with the kingdoms of Norway and Scotland and more and more topic to the rulers of those kingdoms. How they maintained their independence and the way they survived the conflict of loyalties are issues explored during this publication from the early Viking age to the past due medieval period whilst the robust feudal Sinclair earls governed the islands and regained ownership of Caithness. it is a tale of the time whilst the Northern Isles of Scotland have been a part of a dif erent nationwide entity and is the reason the history to the non-Gaelic tradition of this locality, while hyperlinks around the North Sea have been as vital as hyperlinks with the dominion of Scotland to the south.

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