It is not known whom he married, if he was wedded at all; but his son, earl Páll, appears to have had a mother other than his father’s known _frilla_ or concubine. She was a Gael, Helga, daughter of Moddan, a nobleman rolling in wealth, _göfugr maðr ok vell-auðigr_, who lived in Dalir, or Dalr, in Katanes. The Gaelic name _Moddan_ may be connected with the Irish _O’Madadhain_. This man’s family of daughters was a disgrace even to the morals of the twelfth century. After earl Hákon’s death, Helga, aided by her sister Frakök, attempted to murder her step-son, earl Páll, by means of a bewitched garment, white as snow, _línklœði hvitt sem fönn_, which they had sewn and embroidered with gold, but which her own jealous son donned and paid the penalty. Earl Páll, who naturally deemed that this precious article, _gersemi_, had been intended for him, promptly cleared them, and their family and dependents, _skulda-lið_, out of the islands. It was the opinion of earl Rögnvaldr that Frakök was an old hag who would not do anybody good, _kerling er til einkis er fær_. She was burnt alive in her house by Sveinn Ásleifarson, for having instigated her grandson Ölver rósta to burn Svein’s father in his house. Moddan’s carlines and their offspring wormed themselves into Orkney society. Frakök (a Gaelic name?) married Ljótr níðingr (the dastard) of Sutherland, and their daughter married Þorljótr of Rekavík (in Orkney). Another daughter married Þorsteinn fjaranz-muðr (dreadful mouth). Þorleif Moddansdöttir was the mother of Auðhildr, the frilla of Sigurðr slembi-djákn (the slim or tricky deacon), by whom he had an illegitimate daughter, who married Hákon kló. Sigurðr himself, was the illegitimate son of a priest, Aðalbrigð. When he and Frakök came to Orkney a great faction, _sveitar-dráttr mikill_, took place. He took part in the slaughter of Þorkell fóstri, a man much beloved in Orkney, for which the deacon was promptly deported as an undesirable alien. As the pretended son of king Magnús berfœttr, he, however, met a terrible death with remarkable fortitude. Earl Hákon’s children were: earls Haraldr slétt-máli (smooth-speaking) and Páll úmálgi (the silent), Margrét, who married Maddadh, the Gaelic earl of Atholl, and Ingibjörg, who married Ólafr bitlingr (the morsel), king of Suðreyjar.