From the 8th to the 15th centuries, Vikings and Norse settlers and their descendants colonised parts of what is now modern Scotland.
[1] 20th-century poet George Mackay Brown was influenced by the saga, notably for his 1973 novel Magnus.
The Icelandic Njáls saga includes actions taking place in Orkney and Wales.
Besides these Icelandic sagas a few examples, sometimes fragmentary, of Norse poetry composed in Scotland survive.
Höfuðlausn or the "Head's Ransom" is a skaldic poem attributed to Egill Skalla-Grímsson in praise of king Eirik Bloodaxe in the Kingdom of Northumbria.