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By a lawful wife Hakon had another son, Paul the Silent, and it seems certain that Paul was not by the same mother as Margret or Harald Slettmali, and that Paul's mother was not of Moddan's family. Moddan, Earl of Caithness, was killed in 1040. His mother, daughter of Bethoc, must have been born after 1002.
Erlend, only son of Harald Slettmali, and really entitled to the whole earldom, obtained from his relative King Malcolm, then a boy of under twelve, through his powerful kin, a grant of half of the earldom of Caithness jointly with Harold Maddadson, who objected to give him half the Orkney jarldom unless King Eystein confirmed the grant. Erlend then went to Norway to get it confirmed.
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