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Updated: May 12, 2025
Sigurd, Jarl of Orkney, though nominally a Christian, fought on the heathen side, and fell bearing his Raven banner, and the old king, Brian, was killed in the hour of his people's victory. Sigurd's death is the subject of a strange legend, and the occasion of a weird poem, The Darratha-Liod said to have been sung in Caithness for the first time on the day of Sigurd's death.
The old Norse ballad referred to Sigurd's death at Clontarf in 1014. It is known as Darratha-Liod or The Javelin-Song, and is translated by the late Eirikr Magnusson and printed in the Miscellany of the Viking Society with the Old Norse original and the translator's scholarly notes and explanations.
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