Another Earl Murdered

Another Earl Murdered

This illustration was created for an Orkney News article about the famed 11th Century Orcadian, Earl Thorfinn the Mighty. Thorfinn’s advisor Thorkell Forester murdered rival Earl Einar Wrymouth by stabbing him with a sword and then pushing him into the fireplace after a feast. An Icelandic warrior named Hallvard then pulled him out of the fire using a pole-axe through the neck.

Read more about Thorfinn the Mighty in Fiona Grahame’s article on The Orkney News, or in iScot magazine.