rikis

Updated: May 15, 2025

All this left Thorfinn with his great aim achieved. He was now sole jarl of Orkney and Shetland, and sole earl of Caithness and Sutherland, and he also held Ross and the western islands and coast down to Galloway, and part of Ireland, as his rikis or conquered tributary lands.

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