Helga Moddansdóttir - Sources for her husband as Magnus Moddansson. Did she marry her brother? her Cousin? or is this a Mismerge?

Started by Sharon Doubell on Friday, August 10, 2012
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8/10/2012 at 8:12 AM

Although we know she is Hakon's mistress -
"HELGA, daughter of MODDAN of Dalr in Caithness & his wife ---. Orkneyinga Saga names “Helga” daughter of “a farmer…Moddan…living in the Dales of Caithness” as “Earl Hakon´s mistress”[942]. Her stepson banished her and her sister Frakok Moddansdatter to the latter's estates in Helmsdale, Sutherland after the death of her son [1131]. [http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/SCOTTISH%20NOBILITY.htm#_Toc268450047 (Cawley's Medlands)]
Does somebody have sources to make her Magnus `Orfi` Moddansson
wife too?
Being that HER father is Moddan, of Dalr, it seems likely that this is either:
-NOT her husband, but her brother;
-or that it is her husband, who is also her cousin
-or that it is her husband ,who has acquired her 'surname' through a merge.
Anyone know?

8/10/2012 at 9:12 AM

I suspect Magnus came from LDS records, and that he should be Helga's brother.

See this record:

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.2.1/M728-CJX

(click on Show Children)

8/10/2012 at 9:20 AM

Ahh, yes! Thank you - that makes sense. Will re-position him. (There goes another great incest story :-)

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