The Norse earls of Orkney fought each other repeatedly over control of the earldom. Tingwall in Shetland — the site of the Norse thing (assembly) — was a natural flashpoint. The Orkneyinga Saga records multiple conflicts between rival Norse claimants to the earldom during the twelfth century as the Scandinavian world fragmented.
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