Magnus wa Orkney

Magnus wa Orkney (kwa Kinorwe: Magnus Erlendsson; 1080 – 16 Aprili 1115) alikuwa mtemi wa visiwa vya Orkney, Uskoti, kuanzia mwaka 1106 hadi kifodini chake.

Sanamu yake.

Baada ya kuongokea Ukristo, alitetea wananchi dhidi ya maonevu ya Wanorwe wenzake na kwa ajili hiyo alikataliwa na mfalme wa Norwei.

Hatimaye aliuawa vibaya akiwa njiani kwenda kwa amani kujadili na ndugu yake kuhusu umiliki wa visiwa hivyo.

Mwaka 1136 alitangazwa na askofu mkuu Wiliamu wa Orkney kuwa mtakatifu.

Sikukuu yake huadhimishwa tarehe 16 Aprili.

Tazama pia

• Watakatifu wa Agano la Kale
• Orodha ya Watakatifu Wakristo
• Orodha ya Watakatifu wa Afrika
• Orodha ya Watakatifu Wafransisko

Marejeo

• Antonsson, Haki (2007). St. Magnús of Orkney: A Scandinavian Martyr-Cult in Context. Leiden: Koninklijke Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-15580-0.
• Muir, Tom (2005). Orkney in the Sagas: The Story of the Earldom of Orkney as told in the Icelandic Sagas. Kirkwall: The Orcadian. ISBN 0954886232.
• Crawford, Barbara E. (2003). "Orkney in the Middle Ages". Katika Omand, Donald (mhr.). The Orkney Book. Edinburgh: Birlinn. ISBN 1-84158-254-9.
• Orkneyinga Saga: The History of the Earls of Orkney. Ilitafsiriwa na Pálsson, Hermann; Edwards, Paul Geoffrey. London: Penguin. 1981. ISBN 0-14-044383-5.
• Orkneyinga Saga, Íslensk fornrit nr. 34, Hið íslenska fornritafélag, Reykjavik, 1965.
• Vigfusson, Gudbrand (1887). Orkneyinga saga, and Magnus saga, with appendices. Icelandic sagas and other historical documents relating to the settlements and the descendants of the northmen on the British Isles. Juz. la 1. London: HMSO.
• Hermann Pálsson; Edwards, Paul (1996). Magnus' Saga: The Life of St Magnus, Earl of Orkney 1075–1116. Foreword by Rev. Ronald Ferguson; Wood-engravings by Kathleen Lindsey. Kirkwall,Orkney: Kirk Session of St Magnus' Cathedral, Kirkwall. ISBN 0-9528164-0-7.
• Thomson, William P. L. (2008). The New History of Orkney. Edinburgh: Birlinn. ISBN 978-1-84158-696-0.
• Williams, Gareth (2007). "Moddan of Dale". Katika Ballin Smith, Beverley; Taylor, Simon; Williams, Gareth (whr.). West Over Sea. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-15893-1.

Viungo vya nje

• Orkneyjar - St Magnus of Orkney

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