Thorfinn the Mighty: The Ultimate Viking

by George Brunsden

Surrounded by a Nordic world that spanned from Spitzbergen to the Mediterranean, and from Russia to North America, medieval Orkney was much more than just a remote group of islands off the north coast of Scotland. To rule Orkney was to control a key intersection along the Viking western sea route. Of all Orkney's early rulers, none understood this better than Earl Thorfinn the Mighty Sigurdarson. Descended from Norse chieftains and Scottish kings,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0752446800
• ISBN13: 9780752446806
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: History Press
• Length: 256 Pages