The The Orkneyinga Saga on Margaret
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attestation: Margaret, the Maid of Norway, daughter of King Eirik of Norway and his wife Margaret daughter of Alexander III of Scotland, died at sea off the coast of Orkney in September or October 1290.
"King Eirik of Norway in 1281 had married the Scottish princess Margaret, daughter of Alexander III. She died in 1283, leaving one daughter, Margaret, "the Maid of Norway," who became sole heiress to the crown of Scotland, and in 1289 was formally betrothed to Prince Edward of England. She died at sea off the coast of Orkney,[53] on her way to Scotland, in September or October 1290."
attestation: A woman appeared in Bergen in 1300 claiming to be Princess Margaret, the Maid of Norway, who had supposedly died off Orkney ten years earlier; she arrived from Lubeck and claimed she had been betrayed and falsely reported dead.
"A woman appeared in Bergen, in 1300, declaring that she was the princess Margaret, daughter of King Eirik, and heiress to the crown of Scotland, who was believed by all in Norway and in Britain to have died off the coast of Orkney some ten years previously. She had come over in a ship from Lubeck,[59] and her story was that she had been "sold" or betrayed by her attendant Ingibiorg Erlingsdatter"
attestation: The false Margaret was regarded by the multitude as a martyr; a chapel was erected at the place of her execution and pilgrimages grew so numerous that Bishop Audfinn had to forbid them.
"Notwithstanding the manifest nature of the imposture she was regarded by the multitude as a martyr; a chapel was erected on the spot where she suffered, and the number of pilgrimages made to it increased to such an extent that Bishop Audfinn interfered and forbade them."
attribution: As the false Margaret was led to execution she claimed to remember being taken through the same gate as a child to be carried to Scotland, and identified a court priest named Haflidi who had sung the Veni Creator as she departed.
"As she was being taken through the Kongsgaard gate to the place of execution, she is reported to have said—"I remember well when I as a child was taken through this self-same gate to be carried to Scotland. There was then in the High Church of the Apostles an Iceland priest, Haflidi[60] by name, who was the court priest of my father King Eirik; and when the clergy ceased singing, then Sir Haflidi struck up with the 'Veni Creator,' and the hymn was sung out to the end just as I was being taken on board the ship.""
attestation: King Eirik had personally identified his daughter Margaret's corpse and placed it in Christ's Kirk beside her mother's grave, making the false Margaret's claim impossible, yet she still found supporters among nobles and clergy.
""Yet," says Munch, "though the king's daughter Margaret had died in the presence of some of the best men of Norway, though her corpse had been brought back by the bishop and Herr Thore Hakonson, to King Eirik, who himself had laid it in the open grave, satisfied himself of the identity of his daughter's remains, and placed them in the Christ's Kirk by the side of her mother's""
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- attestation: The genealogical chronological table records that Margaret, infant daughter of King Eirik of Norway, was recognised as heir to the Scottish throne in 1284 and died off Orkney in 1290.
"1284. Margaret, infant daughter of Eirik, King of Norway, recognised as he"