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This doesn't answer your question, but it may be of interest if not to you then to others who are interested in these topics.

http://www.orkneyjar.com/placenames/orkney.htm

The same site has an interesting page which weighs up the pros and cons of the "settlement or slaughter" debate about any Pictish/Norse entanglements in Orkney.

http://www.orkneyjar.com/history/vikingorkney/takeover.htm