Grelad Duncansdatter (abt. 898 - abt. 977)

Born about 0898 in Caithness, Scotland

Ancestors

Descendants

Died about 0977 at about age 79 in Orkney, Scotland

Relationships between historical figures could have been simplified or even fabricated in the text to give the impression that succession remained within the same family….Precise chronology is also difficult to assess from the Sagas….The conclusion must be that the tight family network described in the Sagas is unlikely to be correct and that the relationships shown below should be treated with considerable caution. Unverified parents

Biography

Snorre names "Grelad, a daughter of Earl Dungad of Caithness…[and of] Groa, a daughter of Thorstein Raud" as mother of the five sons of Thorfin "Hausakljufer" m (941) THORFINN "Hausakliffer/Skullcleaver" Jarl of Orkney, son of EINAR "Turf-Einar" Jarl of Orkney & his wife --- (-soon after 977). He appears to have become Jarl of Caithness. ^[1]

Name

Name: Grelod (Gerlaf)(Grelauga) /DUNCANSDATTER/

Name: Grelod (Gerlaf)(Grelauga) /EINARSSON/

Name: Grelod /ingen Donnchad ^[2]

Name: Grelod (Gerlaf) (Grelauga) /Rollo (Brico)/

Birth

Birth: ABT 0898 Of, CAI, Scotland^[3]

Marriage

Grelauga, daughter of Duncan, earl of Duncansbay, married Thorfinn Hausakliuf, and thus reunited in the Norse line the two earldoms of Orkney and Caithness. ^[4]

Husband: Thorfinn I 'Hausakliffer' Rollo

Wife: Grelod (Gerlaf) (Grelauga) Duncansdatter

Child: Arnfinn Thorfinnsson Earl Of Orkney

Child: UNKNOWN Thorfinnsson

Child: Ljot (Liot) Thorfinnsson

Child: Skuli Thorfinnsson

Child: Ansfred Thorfinnsson

Marriage: 0914 Of, Orkney Islands, Scotland^[5]

Notes

1.-Dotter, -Datter, -Dottir are all the same ending, meaning "daughter" in Scandinavia, and attached behind the father's first name. A woman kept her birth name all her life and did not take on her husband's last name as her own until about 100-200 years ago.

Sources

1. ↑ Cawley, Charles. Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families. Hosted online by the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy (FMG), accessed 2021. [1]
2. ↑ Ancestry Profile.
3. ↑ Source: #S4
4. ↑ Anderson, Joseph. The Orkneyinga Saga, translated from the Icelandic Edmonston and Douglas, Edinburgh, 1873, p. XXV. [2]
5. ↑ Source: #S4

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