 The fathers did their best to reach a settlement but it became clear that they were both favouring their own offspring, which resulted in hostility between them.Eventually the earldom was divided into two distinct territories, as it had been in the time of their father Thorfinn and uncle Brusi Sigurdsson.Paul and Erlend's father Thorfinn may have visited the Pontiff in Rome and c. 1050 Thorulf, the first Bishop of Orkney was installed at the "Christ Church" in the "city of Blascona".