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Birth:          ABT  988 Orkney, Orkney Islands
Death:          AFT 31 Aug 1030 

Notes
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NORSE PREDECESSORS of the EARLS of ORKNEY - subject to King of Norway until 
after 1379

Brusi, Jarl of one-third of Orkney 1014, a "mild and very peaceable man, wise, 
eloquent and popular." When Thorfinn invaded Orkney from Caithness in 1018, Brusi 
induced Einar to allow Thorfinn to have Somerled’s share. In return he handed the 
administration and defence of his own share to Einar on the understanding that if he 
outlived him he should recover it and acquire Einar’s third as well. Thus, after Einar’s 
death in the autumn of 1020, he became entitled to two-thirds of Orkney; but Thorfinn 
claimed half of Einar’s third of right, and suggested that as Brusi was so peaceful a 
man he might well be content with his original third. Brusi went to Norway with his son 
Ragnvald (b. 1011) to appeal to King St. Olaf (1015-1028) and became his man for all 
his inherited lands in Orkney (? Spring 1021). Thorfinn followed and the King divided 
Orkney, giving one-third to Brusi, one-third to Thorfinn and keeping one third himself, 
The King gave his own third of Orkney as a fief to Jarl Brusi, who thus had two-thirds 
once more and returned to Orkney in the autumn of 1021. Thorfinn, who remained in 
Caithness took taxes and dues from his third of Orkney, but made no provision for the 
defence of the Nordreys, the whole burden of which fell on Brusi. By a further 
agreement made after the deposition of St. Olaf in 1028 and before 1034, Brusi 
surrendered one-third to Thorfinn, who in return assumed the whole defence of the 
Nordreys. Soon after this Jarl Brusi died (? 1030), "in the days of Cnut the Powerful," 
a little after the fall of King St. Olaf i.e. between 31 Aug. 1030 and 12 Nov. 1035. He 
left a son Ragnvald. [Complete Peerage, X:Appendix A:9-10]

Parents
HLODVERSSON Sigurd II "Digri" (ABT  965 - 23 Apr 1014)
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Siblings
SIGURDSON Brusi (ABT  988 - AFT 31 Aug 1030)

Marriage To REGNWALDSDOTTIR Ostrida ()
    m.  

Notes


Children by REGNWALDSDOTTIR Ostrida 
BRUSISSON Rognvald (1011 - Dec 1046)

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