AN ORKNEY DYNASTY: THE SEARCH FOR KOLBEIN HRUGA

Remnants of a square tower and ramparts are all that survive of Cubbie Roo’s Castle on Wyre, with the name linked to a legendary giant and to an actual figure in 12th-century Norse Orkney, Kolbein Hruga.

Little is known of him outwith the Orkneyinga Saga, but Margaret Flaws in Wyre, well-known for her studies in Orkney’s history, dialect and tradition, gradually pieced together a web of family connections showing how Orkney’s leading families were linked together with rich families in Norway, in trade, shipping and politics.

Spencer Rosie shows how she traced the various clues, and the picture it reveals of the wealth and power of the Orkney of the Norse earls, with insights into Sweyn Asleifsson and clues to the ancestry of the Flett family of today.

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Featured Music

Samples from “Documentary” and “The Trip Home” from the album “Deltapodus” by Zerøbeat – available on Bandcamp https://zerobeat2020.bandcamp.com
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