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charter in Greece. Or for a sailing yacht on luxury charter along the coast of Turkey. You may be dreaming
of a Blue Cruise in the Aegean Sea. If so, you have found an appropriate web page. You may even be dreaming
of a cruise through the crossroads of history, re-tracing, for example, Rognvald Kali Kolsson's route across
the Aegean and along the coast of Turkey. Perhaps you are thinking of doing this on a family holiday. In that
event you might wish to cruise the crossroads of history aboard the Danish-flag sailing yacht Clarissa. That
is, you might wish to charter a sailing yacht with the comfort of classroom space for children as well as
plenty of elbow room for adults. Elegant elbow room. Rognvald Kali Kolsson was a Viking earl (jarl) born in
the Orkney Islands off the north coast of Scotland. He was directly descended from Rognvald (The Wise)
Eysteinsson, a Viking born in modern Norway who settled in the Orkneys during the ninth century before there
was a Norway. The later Rognvald Kali Kolsson, Earl of Orkney, built in Kirkwall the handsome red and yellow
sandstone cathedral depicted below beginning in 1137, and named it after his uncle Magnus. In 1151 Earl
Rognvald led a group of his fellow Orcadians on pilgrimage to the Holy Land. But his flotilla numbering 15
vessels suggested another purpose, as well. From the Orkneys the flotilla sailed down the east coast of
Britain and the west coast of |
France to Vigo, a
fledgling seaport in northwestern Spain. There like a good pilgrim through-and-true he relieved impoverished
residents of an oppressive Galician noble luxuriating in the spoils of their labor. On no luxury cruise
himself, he entered the Mediterranean by way of a storm-tossed Straits of Gibraltar. Sailing to Marseille, a
city founded by Greeks from Phocaea in Ionian Turkey, he there abandoned five storm-damaged vessels. From
Marseille he headed for the Aegean. En route he went from pilgrim through-and-true to piracy, intercepting
and capturing Muslim shipping off Sardinia and elsewhere, and pillaging Muslim communities in Sicily and
north Africa. Pausing at Byzantine Crete, Rognvald next proceeded by way of Muslim Egypt, where he engaged
in further acts of piracy, finally arriving at his destination: the Christian Kingdom of Jerusalem. Arriving
shortly after failure of the Second Crusade he and his crews were welcomed by the King, Baldwin III, and were
able to visit Holy Land places of pilgrimage such as the Temple Mount and the Church of the Holy Sepulcher,
leaving for posterity stone-carved inscriptions testifying to their devotion. Ignoring Baldwin's wish that he
make the Holy Land his home, Rognvald left the Kingdom of Jerusalem then threatened by the Seljuk Turk Nur ed
Din to its fate. He took his flotilla along the south coast of modern Turkey past Smooth Cilicia, Kekova Roads,
Rhodes, Knidos, and Phocaea to Constantinople where he was accorded the honors normally accorded a prince.
Enamored of Byzantine civilization and disenchanted with stormy weather, Earl Rognvald passed the winter of
1151-52 in the Byzantine capital visiting local holy places including the Church of Saint Sophia. In the
spring of 1152, however, he headed back the way he had come, pausing at Rome for yet another pilgrimage.
On arrival in the Orkneys late that same year Earl Rognvald's flotilla numbered 14 "splendid ships,"
according to The Orkneyinga Saga written half a century later, suggesting the flotilla included four
captured Muslim vessels. Whether his war with Islam, or his pilgrimages to Jerusalem, Constantinople, and Rome,
or his construction of the cathedral in Kirkwall where he is now interred, Rognvald Kali Kolsson is said to
have been beatified by Pope Celestine III. If true, he may be the only pirate in history to have been made a
Roman Catholic saint. Clarissa, a proper sailing yacht available for luxury charter in Greece and Turkey able
to discuss this and other episodes at the crossroads of history. Contact Blue Cruise Yacht
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