Editing Torf-Einarr (section)

==Sources==
The sources for Einarr's life are exclusively the Norse [[sagas]], none of which were written down during his lifetime. The ''[[Orkneyinga saga]]'' was first compiled in Iceland in the early 13th century and much of the information it contains is "hard to corroborate" according to scholars.<ref name=Woolf242>Woolf (2007) p. 242</ref> Einarr is also referred to in the ''[[Heimskringla]]'', which is of a similar vintage to the ''Orkneyinga saga''. ''Torf-Einarr's Saga'' itself is now lost and a short passage is recorded in the ''[[Landnámabók]]''.<ref name=Johnston393>Johnston, A.W. (July 1916) [https://www.jstor.org/stable/25518943 "Orkneyinga Saga"]. JSTOR/''The Scottish Historical Review''. Vol. 13, No. 52. p. 393. Retrieved 27 January 2014.</ref> These verses, penned by Einarr himself about his feud with [[Hálfdan Long-Legs]], were the source of most of the saga writer's information about him.<ref name=crawford/>