Note (return) — Chapter IV

We now come to the last years of the fourth period of his life, when "the earl sate down quietly and kept peace over all his realm. Then he left off warfare, and he turned his mind to ruling his people and land, and to law-giving. He sate almost always in Birsay, and let them build there Christchurch,20 a splendid Minster. There first was set up a bishop's seat in the Orkneys."