Further Reading
- Orkneyinga Saga, ed by Hermann Pálsson & Paul Edwards. Penguin Classics - ISBN 0-14-044383-5
- Kingship and Unity by G W S Barrow. Edinburgh University press - ISBN 0-7486-0104-X
- Scottish author Nigel Tranter based one of his historical novels (MacBeth the King) on the historical figure, showing Thorfinn as a half-brother of Macbeth, with a common mother. It also seeks to tie together the pilgrimages made to Rome by both, as one and the same.
- The novel King Hereafter by Dorothy Dunnett presents an alternate claim that Thorfinn and King Macbeth of Alba are actually one and the same. (A reading which supports the above claim that Thorfinn actually held seven earldoms within Alba.)
Read more about this topic: Thorfinn The Mighty
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