Earl Hlodvir of Orkney fought to secure control of Caithness — the mainland territory the Norse earls controlled alongside Orkney. The Norse earls of Orkney held Caithness and Sutherland as well as the islands throughout this period, and skirmishes with both Scottish kings and rival Norse leaders were frequent.
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.
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