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Håkon, son of Paul Thorfinnson[1] and an unknown mother, was born about 1070, in Orkney.
Orkneyöarna ligger ca 30 km norr om skotska fastlandet och är brittisk ögrupp och skotskt förvaltningsdistrikt. Av ett 70-tal öar är ca 20 bebodda. Ögruppen har 19500 invånare och huvudort är Kirkwall. Öarna har varit bebodda sedan forntiden och erövrades på 800-talet av norska vikingar, som där upprättade ett välde vilket med vissa avbrott varade till 1472, då öarna tillföll Skottland. Befolkningen talade norska till på 1600-talet.
Translation: The Orkney Islands are located about 30 km north of the Scottish mainland and are a British archipelago and Scottish administrative district. Of about 70 islands, about 20 are inhabited. The archipelago has 19500 inhabitants and its capital is Kirkwall. The islands have been inhabited since ancient times and were conquered in the ninth century by Norwegian Vikings, who established an empire there, which with some interruptions lasted until 1472, when the islands went to Scotland. The population spoke Norwegian until the 17th century[2]
Paulsson, Hakon, Earl of Orkney. Acceded: 1105. Died: 1126. His father was Thorfinnson, Paul I of Orkney, Earl of Orkney. Mother: Hakondottir, Daughter. Child 1: Hakonsson, Paul the silent, Earl of Orkney. Associated with Helga. Child 2: Hakonsson, Harald Smooth-spoken, Earl of Orkney. Child 3: Hakonsdottir, Ingibiorg. Child 4: Hakonsdottir, Margaret, Countess of Orkney.[3]
Hakon murdered his cousin Magnus (the Saint and Earl); repented; went on pilgrimage. After his return honoured the Saint, about 1110-1120.[4]
Harkon was born about 1075. Harkon Palsson ... He passed away about 1125. [5]
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