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Updated: May 11, 2025

Sweyn then returns to Orkney and tells his version of the affair to the bishop, the bishop to Ragnvald, and Ragnvald to the "good men" or lendirmen of Orkney, who express themselves satisfied, and Ragnvald builds the Cathedral he had vowed to St. Magnus in Kirkwall a strange medley of craftiness, murder, and piety.

James Gray - Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time: or, The Jarls and The Freskyns