Episode 16, April 12, 2025 - full "pink" moon: The Orkneyinga Saga part II: Christian Era Jarls - Orcadian storyteller and historian Tom Muir, MBE, tells the old stories of Orkney's jarlsTales in the Landscape Crowdfunder: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/tales-in-the-landscape WARNING: Tonight's chat involves some descriptions of gore and violence, as you might expect with the Vikings. Tom will tell us a few very old family stories by the light of tonight's full moon. We'll look deeply into Orkney's Viking history, as preserved in the Orkneyinga Saga. If you've ever considered reading the sagas, this episode of Ower wi' the Moon will set you up for a more informed first reading. You'll get a condensed overview of the myth, the stories, the culture and the thinking behind these tales, to prepare you to tackle the Orkneyinga Saga in full. This is part II of III.Tonight we discuss: What happens after the last pagan Jarl of Orkney dies at the Battle of Clontarf in Ireland in 1014?We hear about some rather unlikeable, greedy and grasping sons of Sigurd the Stout - Einar Wrymouth among them, who wasn't a very successful VikingHolding a Thing at Dingieshowe in Orkney's East Mainland (the assembly mound), where a young farmer, Thorkel, makes a bold move ... and lives to regret it.Sigurd's youngest son, Thorfinn Sigurdsson, gets involved in the fight for the family jarldom of OrkneySpecific locations in Deerness where treacherous events took placeA promising two-year-old hostage, RognvaldKings being killed and Vikings getting around: Constantinople and Russia, for instanceWhat Olaf's Wynd in Kirkwall has to do with the VikingsHow Kirkjavagr (Kirk Bay, Kirkwall) got its namePapa Westray or Papa Stronsay - where did the malt for the Yuletime ale come from?The perils of a slip of the tongueA Pictish monastery on PapaWestrayThe old Christchurch in BirsayMaking a bid for the English throneAnd along comes Magnus Barelegs - another great Viking nameThe early days of Saint MagnusTreachery in Egilsay and a mother's pleaThe connection between St Magnus and Orkney's skald, George Mackay Brown Tales in the Landscape Crowdfunder: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/tales-in-the-landscape Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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