Pål (or Paul) was the elder son of Thorfin the Mighty and shared the kingdom of the Orkneys with his brother Erlend after their father's death. They ruled together quite congenially until their children became old enough to get involved in politics. It came to be that Paul's son, Haakon was eventually banished from the Orkneys (1093) and he stayed in Sweden and Norway for the next few years. It was the visits from Haakon that eventually persuaded King Magnus of Norway to install his own son, Sigurd (to become known as Sigurd Jorsalafari - the Crusader) as King of the Orkneys.
- 1099
