The death of Orkney earl Sigurd the Stout at Clontarf in Ireland fatally weakened Norse power in the northern isles and accelerated the succession crisis that would eventually see Norse influence recede from mainland Scotland.
Aubrey generates in-depth historical research for any location in Britain — drawing on Domesday records, scheduled monuments, Victorian OS maps, geological data and archaeological archives to tell the full story of a place.
Research a location near Dublin