BORN_SHORT ‎± 850, DIED_SHORT ‎± 892 Orkney Islands, Scotland‎, approximately 42 years, BURIED_SHORT ‎ Ekkialsbakki, Sydero, Dornoch Firth, Scotland
TITLE: First Jarl of the Orkneys.

KINSHIP: Brother to Ragnvald I, the Wise. (7008, Orkneyinga Saga, table 1: p. 1)

IDENTITY: Sigurd I Riki, the Mighty. (7008, Orkneyinga Saga, table 1)
IDENTITY: Sigurd the powerful. (7008, Orkneyinga Saga, p. 199)
DISTINCTION: "First earl" of the Saga. (21, The Complete Peerage.)
TITLES: 1st Earl of Orkney. (21, The Complete Peerage.)
DEATH: 874. (7008, Orkneyinga Saga, p. xxiii, 204)
IDENTITY: The second Viking Earl of Orkney, succeeding his brother Rognvald Eysteinsson. A leader of the Viking conquest of northern Scotland. Got gangreen from his enemy's severed head.

BURIAL: Sydero on Dornoch Firth at the estuary of the Ekkialsbakki (Oykell). (1, The Complete Peerage.)
BURIAL: "Hoy-laid" (buried in a how or barrow, haugr) on Ekkialsbakki. . . . Siward's Hoch . . . the north bank of the Oykel's estuary.

BORN_SHORT ‎± 859 Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, BURIED_SHORT ‎ Ekkjalsbakki, Ekkjalsbakki, Dornoch, Scotland