Gilli was an eleventh-century Hebridean chieftain whose career coincided with an era of Orcadian overlordship in the Kingdom of the Isles. According to...
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up Gilli in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Gilli may refer to: Gilli (surname), including a list of people with the name Gilli (Hebridean earl), tenth-century...
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(pre 935-941) Maccus mac Arailt (980-?) Gofraid mac Arailt (?-989) Gilli (Hebridean earl) (990-?) Ragnall mac Gofraid (?-1005) Sigurd the Stout (1005–1014)...
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(daughter of Þórðr vaggagði), and his daughter Arneiðr. Gilli (Hebridean earl), a tenth-century Hebridean earl Jakobsen (1902–1903) p. 142 ch. 1; AM 132 Fol (n...
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Hlodvir Thorfinnsson (category Norwegian earls)
whom he had, and at least two daughters: one who married the Hebridean chieftain Gilli, and another who married Hávarð, steward of Caithness. He was...
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the north. In 990 Sigurd the Stout, Earl of Orkney took control of the Hebrides, and placed a jarl called Gilli in charge. By 1004 the isles' independence...
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have "led to a southern bias in the story", especially as much of the Hebridean archipelago became Norse-speaking during this period. Dates should therefore...
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or Hebridean kin. The story of how Eysteinn's father came to the kingship is similar to that of Eysteinn. At some point in the 1120s, Haraldr gilli arrived...
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Witkowski 1867 1943 French Granville Bantock 1868 1946 British Omar Khayyám, Hebridean Symphony Romanticism, often with an exotic flavour Hermann Bischoff 1868...
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Lottery, and came to be settled through the efforts of Thomas Douglas, The 5th Earl of Selkirk in 1803. Richard Spry, Esquire, was then Commodore, Commander-in-Chief...
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Domnall mac Eimín (category Earls or mormaers of Mar)
apparent senior member of the Uí Ímair who may be identical to Gilli, a Hebridean earl who, according to the thirteenth-century Njáls saga, governed the...
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Roderick, 3rd of Clanranald, supported the Earl of Ross against the Scottish crown, joining him in the earl's 1492 expedition against Inverness. The MS...
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Eysteinn may have had Hebridean connections since saga evidence reveals that he first appeared in Norway claiming to be a son of Haraldr gilli, King of Norway...
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University Press: 107–132, JSTOR 25530199. Sellar, William David Hamilton Hebridean sea kings: The successors of Somerled, 1164–1316 in Cowan, Edward J. and...
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extracted taxes from the northern Hebrides, then controlled by a Hebridean earl named Gilli. Also noted are additional assaults conducted by accomplices of...
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have "led to a southern bias in the story", especially as much of the Hebridean archipelago became Norse-speaking during this period. There are various...
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