Sigurd the Stout Earl of Orkney, who would die at Clontarf in 1014, extended Norse authority southward into Sutherland and Ross in the 990s, briefly holding a mainland territory extending toward Moray. Sigurd was the most powerful Norse ruler in Scotland and his mainland ambitions represent the last major Norse attempt to extend territorial control south of Caithness before the Norse Hebridean focus shifted to consolidation rather than expansion.
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