313:. Earl Harald subsequently displaced Erlend Haraldsson, who was killed in 1156. In August 1158, Rögnvald was cut down with his company of eight men by Thorbjorn Klerk, the former friend and counsellor of Harald, who had been made an outlaw by Earl Rögnvald for a murder committed in Kirkwall, following a series of acts of violence. His body was taken to Kirkwall and buried in St. Magnus Cathedral. Alleged miracles shall have happened at his grave as well as on the stone where he died. Rögnvald was canonized 1192 by
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in 1129. When he became Earl, Kali was given the name Rögnvald, after Earl Rögnvald
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In 1151, Earl Rögnvald set out on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. This celebrated enterprise takes up five complete chapters of
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283:Caithness
254:in 1136.
156:Norwegian
140:Rögnvaldr
136:Rǫgnvaldr
133:Old Norse
122:20 August
82:Canonized
61:Caithness
275:Scotland
271:Kirkwall
232:Shetland
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