Eindridi the Young

1151, 1153

According to Orkneyinga Saga, Eindridi was a chieftain of Norway who had spent some time working as a mercenary in Constantinople, perhaps as a member of the Varangian guard. Upon his return north, he was instrumental in persuading Earl Rognvald to journey to Jerusalem, and accompanied him as a guide. Eindridi remained in Constantinople after Earl Rognvald and his companions returned home, going back to Norway only after several years. There he sided against Erling Wry-neck (one of his former associates on the Jerusalem expedition), in a bid to set Hakon the Broad-Shouldered on the throne, and was defeated and later executed by Erling in Oslo.

Earl Rognvald of Orkney, Bishop William of Orkney, Jon Petersson, Armod, Erling Wry-neck, Aslak Erlendsson, Guthorm Mjolukoll, Magnus Havardsson, Svein Hroaldsson, Oddi the Little, Sigmund Fish-Hook, Thorbjorn the Black

Orkneyinga Saga: The History of the Earls of Orkney, trans. Hermann Pálsson and Paul Edwards (London: Penguin, 1981), 156–82. Orkneyinga Saga, ed. Finnbogi Guðmundsson (Reykjavík: Hið Íslenzka Fornritafélag, 1965), 208–37.