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Alternatieve naam: The /Wise
Roepnaam is Den råds....
Hij is geboren rond 830 in possibly Vestfold, Norwaypossibly Vestfold.
{geni:event_description} Born 0852 in Maer, Nord-Trondelag, Norway
Hij werd gedoopt in Norway-Aka Ragnvald the Wise.
Gedoopt (op 8-jarige leeftijd of later) door het priesterschapsgezag van de LDS-kerk.
Alternatief: Gedoopt (op 8-jarige leeftijd of later) door het priesterschapsgezag van de LDS-kerk.
Alternatief: Gedoopt (op 8-jarige leeftijd of later) door het priesterschapsgezag van de LDS-kerk op 12 april 1904.
Alternatief: Gedoopt (op 8-jarige leeftijd of later) door het priesterschapsgezag van de LDS-kerk op 12 april 1904.
Alternatief: Gedoopt (op 8-jarige leeftijd of later) door het priesterschapsgezag van de LDS-kerk op 12 april 1904.
Alternatief: Gedoopt (op 8-jarige leeftijd of later) door het priesterschapsgezag van de LDS-kerk op 12 april 1904.
Alternatief: Gedoopt (op 8-jarige leeftijd of later) door het priesterschapsgezag van de LDS-kerk op 12 april 1904.
Alternatief: Gedoopt (op 8-jarige leeftijd of later) door het priesterschapsgezag van de LDS-kerk op 12 april 1904.
Alternatief: Gedoopt (op 8-jarige leeftijd of later) door het priesterschapsgezag van de LDS-kerk op 12 april 1904.
Alternatief: Gedoopt (op 8-jarige leeftijd of later) door het priesterschapsgezag van de LDS-kerk op 12 april 1904.
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{geni:job_title} Jarl á Mæri.
Hij is overleden rond 894 TO ABT 894 in Giske, Møre og Romsdal, NorwayGiske, Møre og Romsdal.
Hij is begraven rond 892 in Giske, Møre og Romsdal, NorwayGiske, Møre og Romsdal.
Een kind van Eystein «the Noisy» Glumra en Ásdís (Ascrida) Ragnvaldsdóttir
Een kind van Eystein «the Noisy» Glumra
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Gezin van Ragnvald "Den råds..." Eysteinsson Mørejarl

Kind(eren):

Gangu-Hrólfr 'Rollo' Ragnvaldsson Mœrajarl ± 870-± 932

(2) Hij is getrouwd met Ragnhild 'Hild' Hrólfsdóttir Nefja.

Zij zijn getrouwd rond 845 TO ABT 855 te Vestfold, NorwayVestfold.

Kind(eren):

Gangu-Hrólfr 'Rollo' Ragnvaldsson Mœrajarl ± 870-± 932

Notities over Ragnvald "Den råds..." Eysteinsson Mørejarl

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Rognvald Eysteinsson
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Rognvald "The Wise" Eysteinsson (son of Eystein Ivarsson) is the founder of the Earldom of Orkney in the Norse Sagas. Three quite different accounts of the creation of the Norse earldom on Orkney and Shetland exist. The best known is that found in the Heimskringla, but other older traditions are found in the Historia Norvegiae and the Fragmentary Annals of Ireland.

[edit] Sagas

The saga accounts are the best known, and the latest, of the three surviving traditions concerning Rognvald and the foundation of the Earldom of Orkney. Recorded in the 13th century, their views are informed by Norwegian politics of the day. Once, historians could write that no-one denied the reality of Harald Fairhair's expeditions to the west recounted in Heimskringla, but this is no longer the case. The Norwegian contest with the Kings of Scots over the Hebrides and the Isle of Man in the middle 13th century underlies the sagas.[1]

In the Heimskringla, Rognvald is Earl of Møre. He accompanies Harald Fairhair on his great expeditions to the west, to Ireland and to Scotland. Here, Rognvald's son Ivarr is killed. In compensation King Harald grants Rognvald the Orkneys and Shetlands. Rognvald himself returns to Norway, giving the northern isles to his brother Sigurd Eysteinsson[2]

The Heimskringla recounts other tales of Rognvald. It tells how he causes Harald Finehair to be given his byname Fairhair by cutting and dressing his hair, which had been uncut for ten years on account of Harald's vow never to cut it until he was ruler of all Norway,[3] and it makes him the father of Ganger-Hrólf, identified by saga writers with the Rollo (Hrólfr), ancestor of the Dukes of Normandy, who was said to have been established as Count of Rouen by King Charles the Simple in 931.[4]

Earl Rognvald is killed by Harald's son Halfdan Hålegg. Rognvald's death is avenged by his son, Earl Turf-Einar, from whom later Orkney earls claimed descent, who kills Halfdan on North Ronaldsay.[5]

[edit] Historia Norvegiae

The Historia Norvegiae's account of Rognvald and the foundation of the Orkney earldom is the next oldest, probably dating from the 12th century. This account contains much curious detail on Orkney, including the earliest account of the Picts as small people who hid in the daytime, but it has little to say about Rognvald.

In the days of Harald Fairhair, king of Norway, certain pirates, of the family of the most vigorous prince Ronald [Rognvald], set out with a great fleet, and crossed the Solundic sea..., and subdued the islands to themselves. And being there provided with safe winter seats, they went in summer-time working tyranny upon the English, and the Scots, and sometimes also upon the Irish, so that they took under their rule, from England, Northumbria; from Scotland, Caithness; from Ireland, Dublin, and the other sea-side towns.[6]

This account does not associate Rognvald with the earldom, but instead attributes it to his anonymous sons.

[edit] Fragmentary Annals of Ireland
...for it was not long before this that there had been every war and every trouble in Norway, and this was the source of that war in Norway: two younger sons of Albdan, king of Norway, drove out the eldest son, i.e. Ragnall son of Albdan, for fear that he would seize the kingship of Norway after their father. So Ragnall came with his three sons to the Orkneys. Ragnall stayed there then, with his youngest son.
Fragmentary Annals of Ireland , FA 330. Edited and translated by Joan N. Radnor.

The oldest account of the Rognvald and the earldom of Orkney is that found in the Fragmentary Annals of Ireland. The annals survive only in incomplete copies made by Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh in the 17th century, but the original annals are believed to date from the lifetime of Donnchad mac Gilla Patráic (died 1039). The annals are known to have had an influence on later writings in Iceland.

The annals make Rognvald the son of "Halfdan, King of Lochlann". This is generally understood to mean Halfdan the Black, which would make the Rognvald of the annals the brother of Harald Finehair. However, the sagas claim that Rognvald's grandfather was named Halfdan.[7]

These events are placed after an account of the devastation of Fortriu, dated to around 866,[8] and the fall of York, reliably dated to late 867. However, such an early date makes it difficult to reconcile the saga claims that Harald Fairhair was involved in Rognvald's conquest of the northern isles.

Harald Finehair's victory in the Battle of Hafrsfjord, which gave him dominion over parts of Norway, is traditionally dated to 872, but was probably later, perhaps as late as 900.[9] What little is known of Scottish events in the period from the Chronicle of the Kings of Alba would correspond equally well with Harald's attacks on Scotland in the reign of Domnall mac Causantín (ruled 889–900).[10] However, this would not correspond with the sequence in the earliest account of the origins of the Orkney earldom, which places this a generation earlier.

[edit] Notes

1. ^ Crawford, pp. 52–53.
2. ^ Anderson, pp. 332–334; Saga of Harald Fairhair, c. 22.
3. ^ Saga of Harald Fairhair, cc. 4 & 23.
4. ^ Saga of Harald Fairhair, c. 24.
5. ^ Saga of Harald Fairhair, cc. 29–30.
6. ^ Anderson, pp. 330–331.
7. ^ Crawford, pp. 53–54.
8. ^ Anderson, p. 296; Annals of Ulster, s.a. 865.
9. ^ Crawford, p. 55–56.
10. ^ Anderson, pp. 395–396.

[edit] References

* Anderson, Alan Orr. Early Sources of Scottish History A.D 500–1286, volume 1. Reprinted with corrections. Paul Watkins, Stamford, 1990. ISBN 1-871615-03-8
* Crawford, Barbara. Scandinavian Scotland. Leicester University Press, Leicester, 1987. ISBN 0-7185-1282-0
* Ó Corrain, Donnchad. "The Vikings in Scotland and Ireland in the Ninth Century", Peritia, vol 12, pp296–339. (etext (pdf)
* Radner, Joan N. (editor and translator). Fragmentary Annals of Ireland. CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts. University College Cork. Retrieved on 2007-03-10.
* Radner, Joan N. "Writing history: Early Irish historiography and the significance of form", Celtica, volume 23, pp. 312–325. (etext (pdf))
* Smyth, Alfred P. Warlords and Holy Men: Scotland AD 80–1000. Reprinted, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 1998. ISBN 0-7486-0100-7
* Sturluson, Snorri. Heimskringla: History of the Kings of Norway, translated Lee M. Hollander. Reprinted University of Texas Press, Austin, 1992. ISBN 0-292-73061-6

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Weis, p. 110, Jarl of North and South More, and of Ramsdal in Norway, active 867.

Name Suffix: I, Jarl Of Moera & Orkney "The Mighty" "The Wise" A Norwegian Viking. He supported King Harold Fairhair in an attempt to unify Norway.

From Snorre Sturlasson: Harald Hårfagre's saga:
<10. BATTLE AT SOLSKEL
... Ragnvald Earl of More, a son of Eystein Glumra, had the summer before become one of Harald's men; and the king set him as chief over these two districts, North More and Raumsdal; strengthened him both with men of might and bondes, and gave him the help of ships to defend the coast against enemies. He was called Ragnvald the Mighty, or the Wise; and people say both names suited him well. King Harald came back to Throndhjem aboutwinter.>
<23. HARALD HAS HIS HAIR CLIPPED.
After King Harald had subdued the whole land, he was one day at a feast in More, given by Earl Ragnvald. Then King Harald went into a bath, and had his hair dressed. Earl Ragnvald now cut his hair, which had been uncut and uncombed for ten years; and therefore the king had been called Lufa (i.e., with rough matted hair). But then Earl Ragnvald gave him the distinguishing name -- Harald Harfager (i.e., fair hair); and all who saw him agreed that there was the greatest truth in the surname, for he had the most beautiful and abundant head of hair.>
Ragnvald was burnt to death in his farmhouse along with 60 men of Halvdan Hålegg and Gudrød Ljome, two of Harald's sons, who wished to be earls over Møre. But Harald set Ragnvald's son, Tore, as earl of Møre.

SOURCE CITATION:
Title: Ancestral File (TM)
Author: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Publication Information: July 1996 (c), data as of 2 January 1996
Repository Name: Family History Library
Address: 35 N West Temple Street
Salt Lake City, UT 84150 USA

SOURCE CITATION:
Title: Ancestral File (TM)
Author: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Publication Information: July 1996 (c), data as of 2 January 1996
Repository Name: Family History Library
Address: 35 N West Temple Street
Salt Lake City, UT 84150 USA

[Norvell.FTW]

[Eno.ftw]

CONFLICT: AKA Rognvald Mere-Earl. Acceded Abt 872

Jarl. Død ca. 890.
Ragnvald var jarl på Møre. Hans far skal ha vært Øystein Glumra.
Han levde på Harald Hårfagres tid, og ble av ham forlenet med Nordmøre, Romsdal og Sundmøre i 865. Han var av sine samtidige høyt ansett for sin klokskap og ble kalt ?den mektige?. Det var han som klipte Haralds hår, som da ikke var klippet på 10 år.
Snorre Sturlasson: Harald Hårfagres saga:
?10. ... Ragnvald Mørejarl, sønn til Øystein Glumra, var blitt kong Haralds mann da om sommeren. Kong Harald satte ham til høvding over disse to fylkene, Nordmøre og Romsdal, og ga ham rett til hjelp både av stormenn og bønder,likeså skip nok til å verge landet for ufred. Han ble kalt Ragnvald jarl den mektige eller den rådsnare, og de sier at begge navnene var sanne. Kong Harald var i Trondheimen vinteren som fulgte.?
?23. Kong Harald var i gjestebud på Møre hos Ragnvald jarl; da hadde han lagt hele landet under seg. Da gikk kongen i bad der. Og nå lot kong Harald håret sitt greie, og Ragnvald jarl skar håret hans; da hadde det ikke vært skåret eller kjemmet på ti år. Før kalte de ham Harald Luva, men nå ga Ragnvald jarl ham nytt navn, og kalte ham Harald Hårfagre. Alle som så ham, sa at det var virkelig et sant navn, for han hadde et hår som var både stort og vakkert.?
Ragnvald ble innebrent på sin gård sammen med 60 mann av Halvdan Hålegg og Gudrød Ljome, to av Haralds sønner, som vill være jarler over Møre.

Ragnvald var jarl på Møre. Hans far skal ha vært Øystein Glumra.
Han levde på Harald Hårfagres tid, og ble av ham forlenet med Nordmøre, Romsdal og
Sundmøre i 865. Han var av sine samtidige høyt ansett for sin klokskap og ble kalt ?den
mektige?. Det var han som klipte Haralds hår, som da ikke var klippet på 10 år.
Snorre Sturlasson: Harald Hårfagres saga:
?10. ... Ragnvald Mørejarl, sønn til Øystein Glumra, var blitt kong Haralds mann da om
sommeren. Kong Harald satte ham til høvding over disse to fylkene, Nordmøre og Romsdal, og
ga ham rett til hjelp både av stormenn og bønder, likeså skip nok til å verge landet for ufred.
Han ble kalt Ragnvald jarl den mektige eller den rådsnare, og de sier at begge navnene var
sanne. Kong Harald var i Trondheimen vinteren som fulgte.?
?23. Kong Harald var i gjestebud på Møre hos Ragnvald jarl; da hadde han lagt hele
landet under seg. Da gikk kongen i bad der. Og nå lot kong Harald håret sitt greie, og
Ragnvald jarl skar håret hans; da hadde det ikke vært skåret eller kjemmet på ti år. Før kalte
de ham Harald Luva, men nå ga Ragnvald jarl ham nytt navn, og kalte ham Harald Hårfagre.
Alle som så ham, sa at det var virkelig et sant navn, for han hadde et hår som var både stort
og vakkert.?
Ragnvald ble innebrent på sin gård sammen med 60 mann av Halvdan Hålegg og
Gudrød Ljome, to av Haralds sønner, som vill være jarler over Møre.

[Norvell.FTW]

[Eno.ftw]

CONFLICT: Name Rognvaldsson " The Mighty" Earl of More or Rolf the Ganger Ragnvaldsson, Duke of Normandy, 1st. D. 870 or 932.

BIOGRAPHY: Acceded 911
Royal & Noble Genealogical Data on the Web: Rolf became known as Robert or Rollo in Normandy. I have shown them as father and son, but this is really a way of showing how his attribution changed. AKA Rolf Wend-a-Foot. Does this mean that Rolf and Rollo are the same person or are father and son as shown? dl refer to both sources. Royal & Noble, and Ancesters of Maud Flanders. dl

[Norvell.FTW]

[Eno.ftw]

CONFLICT: AKA Rognvald Mere-Earl. Acceded Abt 872

Rogenwald was a supporter of King Harold Harfagr, and assisted him inobtaining the mastery over the other independent Norwegian chiefs, and in establishing himself as King of all Norway. He was Earl of More and Raumdahl in Norway, and in 888, he obtained from King Harold a grant of the Orkney and Shetland islands. One of his sons, Rollo, conquered Neustria, founded the line of sovereign Dukes of Normandy, and was ancestor to William the Conqueror.

One of the Norse invaders of Burgundy who remained there.

Rogenwald was a supporter of King Harold Harfagr, and assisted him inobtaining the mastery over the other independent Norwegian chiefs, and in establishing himself as King of all Norway. He was Earl of More and Raumdahl in Norway, and in 888, he obtained from King Harold a grant of the Orkney and Shetland islands. One of his sons, Rollo, conquered Neustria, founded the line of sovereign Dukes of Normandy, and was ancestor to William the Conqueror.

One of the Norse invaders of Burgundy who remained there.

Rogenwald was a supporter of King Harold Harfagr, and assisted him inobtaining the mastery over the other independent Norwegian chiefs, and in establishing himself as King of all Norway. He was Earl of More and Raumdahl in Norway, and in 888, he obtained from King Harold a grant of the Orkney and Shetland islands. One of his sons, Rollo, conquered Neustria, founded the line of sovereign Dukes of Normandy, and was ancestor to William the Conqueror.

One of the Norse invaders of Burgundy who remained there.

[s2.FTW]

[Brøderbund WFT Vol. 2, Ed. 1, Tree #1241, Date of Import: May 8, 1997]

!JARL OF MORE
from Snorre Sturlason (lived 1179-1241), Heimskringla, or the Lives of the Norse Kings (NY: Dover, 1932, 1990):

Möre is situated on the coast south of Trondheim. Was ruled by King Huntjov, and his son Salve Klove, both great warriors. They engaged in a battle with King Harald Hairfair near Solskel. Harald won the two shires of More and Raumsdale. "Ragnvald, Jarl of More, son of Eystein Glumra, then became King Harald's man. King Harald set him as chief over these two shires, Nordmore and Raumsdale, and gave him the support of both leaders and bonders and also ships to keep the land from unrest. Ragnvald was called the Mighty, or the Shrewd, and it is said that both by-names were true." (p. 48)

Later, Harald made Ragnvald Jarl over both shires. Sturlason gives an account of Ragnvald's conquest south to the Fjords, where he surrounded and burned the house of King Vemund and 90 men, seizing Vemund's ships and chattels... (pp. 50-58)

In a battle on the Isle of Man fell Ivor, son of Ragnvald the Jarl of Möre, and "to requite his death King Harald gave the Jarl Ragnvald the Orkneys and Shetland Islands, but Ragnvald straightway gave both lands to his brother Sigurd," who then became a Jarl. To join Sigurd came Torstein the Red (son of Olav the White, King in Dublin until 870) and Aud the Pensive." In Scotland, they "possessed themselves of Caithness and Sutherland to the River Oykell. Sigurd the Jarl slew the Scottish Jarl, Melbridge Tooth, and bound his head to his saddle strap, but the calf of his leg was wounded by a tooth which stood out from it; he festered and he got his death from it; he was buried in a howe by the river Oykell. Then his son Guthorm ruled over the land for a winter and died childless. After that, the Vikings, Danes and Norsemen settled firmly in these lands."

"Ragnvald the Jarl was King Harald's dearest friend and the king valued him highly. Ragnvald had, for his wife, Hild the daughter of Rolf Nevja, and their sons were Rolf and Tore. He also had bastard sons, one called Hallad, the next Einar and the third Rollaug. They were full grown when their legitimate brothers were still children.

When King Harald Hairfair was forty years old, many of his sons were fully grown and they all ripened early to manhood. And it came about that they little liked the fact that the king gave them no kingdoms, but set jarls in every shire; they thought jarls were not so high-born as themselves. One spring Halvdan and Gudrod went off with a great band of men; they came suddenly upon Ragnvald, Jarl of More, drew a ring around the house and burned him in it with sixty men....Gudrod set himself firmly where Ragnvald the Jarl had formerly had his seat. When King Harald learned that, he straightaway went against Gudrod with a great army and Gudrod saw no lot for himself but to put himself in King Harald's power; the king sent him east to Agder. King Harald then set Tore, the son of Ragnvald, over More and married him to his own daughter Alov, who was called Arbot. Jarl Tore the silent then had such rule as his father Ragnvald had had."

quoted from Snorre Sturlason (c. 1179-1241), Heimskringla, or the Lives of the Norse Kings (NY: Dover, 1932, 1990) pp. 59-64

A brief history of the Medieval Kings of Norway:

Norse King Halvdan the Black (b. 820; ruled 839-60). During this time Turgesius or Torgils subdued Irish by conquering Dublin. Then son Harald Hairfair (b. 850; ruled 860-933) who united Norway into one kingdom, and outlawed Rolf (the son of his closest friend) who eventually went to conquer Normandy. Rolf the Ganger's (called Rollon by the French) conquest of North France (Normandy) is legendary; his half-brother Einar became Earl of Orkney, from whom many subsequent Earls of Orkney have descended.

-King Hacon the Good was the foster son of Hacon Athelstan (King of England, grandson of King Alfred)--H the G left England for Norway on the death of his father in 933. Then followed Kings Hacon the Jarl, Olav Trygvason, Olav Haraldson (St. Olav) who d. 1030, and Magnus the Good (son of Olav). Made treaty with King Hardicanute (Canute or Knut) to succeed to thrones of Denmark and England--claimed Crown from Edward the Confessor of England, but allowed him to still rule.

-His uncle, King Harald Hardrade, consented at request of Earl Tosti (brother of Harold Godwinson, last of the Old English kings) to bring an army to England. Defeated English army outside of York then went to battle against Godwinson--Norsemen were defeated in a fierce battle and Tosti and Harald were slain. William the Conqueror (descendant of Rolf the Ganger) arrived 4 days later and killed King Harold Godwinson to gain the crown of England.

-Harald's son Olav Kyrre the Peaceful followed as King, then son Magnus Barefoot, who ruled the same time as Henry I (son of William the Conqueror) of Eng, and led expeditions to attack England from West and Ireland. Killed in Ireland in 1103.

-Then Sigurd the Crusaderwas King, who was Earl of Orkney (son of Magnus Barefoot). Voyage to Jerusalem and Constantinople. d. 1130.

The Viking Age was ending. Norse parted with last 2 British Isles: Orkney and Shetland--in 1468.

Final King of this period: Magnus Erlingson (1161-77)

Genealogical Source: Church of JC of the LDS "Ancestral File" CD-Rom database, ver 4.17.[Brøderbund WFT Vol. 2, Ed. 1, Tree #1241, Date of Import: May 8, 1997]

!JARL OF MORE
from Snorre Sturlason (lived 1179-1241), Heimskringla, or the Lives of the Norse Kings (NY: Dover, 1932, 1990):

Möre is situated on the coast south of Trondheim. Was ruled by King Huntjov, and his son Salve Klove, both great warriors. They engaged in a battle with King Harald Hairfair near Solskel. Harald won the two shires of More and Raumsdale. "Ragnvald, Jarl of More, son of Eystein Glumra, then became King Harald's man. King Harald set him as chief over these two shires, Nordmore and Raumsdale, and gave him the support of both leaders and bonders and also ships to keep the land from unrest. Ragnvald was called the Mighty, or the Shrewd, and it is said that both by-names were true." (p. 48)

Later, Harald made Ragnvald Jarl over both shires. Sturlason gives an account of Ragnvald's conquest south to the Fjords, where he surrounded and burned the house of King Vemund and 90 men, seizing Vemund's ships and chattels... (pp. 50-58)

In a battle on the Isle of Man fell Ivor, son of Ragnvald the Jarl of Möre, and "to requite his death King Harald gave the Jarl Ragnvald the Orkneys and Shetland Islands, but Ragnvald straightway gave both lands to his brother Sigurd," who then became a Jarl. To join Sigurd came Torstein the Red (son of Olav the White, King in Dublin until 870) and Aud the Pensive." In Scotland, they "possessed themselves of Caithness and Sutherland to the River Oykell. Sigurd the Jarl slew the Scottish Jarl, Melbridge Tooth, and bound his head to his saddle strap, but the calf of his leg was wounded by a tooth which stood out from it; he festered and he got his death from it; he was buried in a howe by the river Oykell. Then his son Guthorm ruled over the land for a winter and died childless. After that, the Vikings, Danes and Norsemen settled firmly in these lands."

"Ragnvald the Jarl was King Harald's dearest friend and the king valued him highly. Ragnvald had, for his wife, Hild the daughter of Rolf Nevja, and their sons were Rolf and Tore. He also had bastard sons, one called Hallad, the next Einar and the third Rollaug. They were full grown when their legitimate brothers were still children.

When King Harald Hairfair was forty years old, many of his sons were fully grown and they all ripened early to manhood. And it came about that they little liked the fact that the king gave them no kingdoms, but set jarls in every shire; they thought jarls were not so high-born as themselves. One spring Halvdan and Gudrod went off with a great band of men; they came suddenly upon Ragnvald, Jarl of More, drew a ring around the house and burned him in it with sixty men....Gudrod set himself firmly where Ragnvald the Jarl had formerly had his seat. When King Harald learned that, he straightaway went against Gudrod with a great army and Gudrod saw no lot for himself but to put himself in King Harald's power; the king sent him east to Agder. King Harald then set Tore, the son of Ragnvald, over More and married him to his own daughter Alov, who was called Arbot. Jarl Tore the silent then had such rule as his father Ragnvald had had."

quoted from Snorre Sturlason (c. 1179-1241), Heimskringla, or the Lives of the Norse Kings (NY: Dover, 1932, 1990) pp. 59-64

A brief history of the Medieval Kings of Norway:

Norse King Halvdan the Black (b. 820; ruled 839-60). During this time Turgesius or Torgils subdued Irish by conquering Dublin. Then son Harald Hairfair (b. 850; ruled 860-933) who united Norway into one kingdom, and outlawed Rolf (the son of his closest friend) who eventually went to conquer Normandy. Rolf the Ganger's (called Rollon by the French) conquest of North France (Normandy) is legendary; his half-brother Einar became Earl of Orkney, from whom many subsequent Earls of Orkney have descended.

-King Hacon the Good was the foster son of Hacon Athelstan (King of England, grandson of King Alfred)--H the G left England for Norway on the death of his father in 933. Then followed Kings Hacon the Jarl, Olav Trygvason, Olav Haraldson (St. Olav) who d. 1030, and Magnus the Good (son of Olav). Made treaty with King Hardicanute (Canute or Knut) to succeed to thrones of Denmark and England--claimed Crown from Edward the Confessor of England, but allowed him to still rule.

-His uncle, King Harald Hardrade, consented at request of Earl Tosti (brother of Harold Godwinson, last of the Old English kings) to bring an army to England. Defeated English army outside of York then went to battle against Godwinson--Norsemen were defeated in a fierce battle and Tosti and Harald were slain. William the Conqueror (descendant of Rolf the Ganger) arrived 4 days later and killed King Harold Godwinson to gain the crown of England.

-Harald's son Olav Kyrre the Peaceful followed as King, then son Magnus Barefoot, who ruled the same time as Henry I (son of William the Conqueror) of Eng, and led expeditions to attack England from West and Ireland. Killed in Ireland in 1103.

-Then Sigurd the Crusaderwas King, who was Earl of Orkney (son of Magnus Barefoot). Voyage to Jerusalem and Constantinople. d. 1130.

The Viking Age was ending. Norse parted with last 2 British Isles: Orkney and Shetland--in 1468.

Final King of this period: Magnus Erlingson (1161-77)

Genealogical Source: Church of JC of the LDS "Ancestral File" CD-Rom database, ver 4.17.

Basic Life Information
Ragnvald Eysteinsson, Jarl of More and Romsdal, nicknamed The Wise and The Mighty, whose insignia was a wolf's head, campaigned with his second cousin, Harald, to unify Norway. They were assisted by the Earls of Lade. Lade is situated in the eastern part of Trondheim, bordering on Trondheimsfjiord.

In the 9th. Century, a powerful group established themselves around Trondheimsfjord, called the Hlaoajarlar, Earls of Lade, after their lands situated in present-day Trondheim. These people originated in Halogaland, a vast strip of northern territory stretching to the borders of Finland and Russia. Its name means land of the aurora. Settlement was sparse, and life revolved around hunting and fishing. The result of these activities, especially whaling, made the men in control of Halogaland vastly rich. It was of vital interest to the warrior chieftains of Trondheim to protect their trade routes to Halogaland. The unification of Norway came about to protect these trade routes from pirate-jarls.

c. 868 Ragnvald fought on the side of his kinsman against these pirate-jarls, and was rewarded with the territories of More and Romsdal. This was after the Battle of Solskel, in which Jarl Hunthiof of More and Jarl Novke of Romsdal were defeated. More and Romsdal are in western Norway, bordering on the Atlantic Ocean.

c. 875 Harald and Ragnvald also conquered lands in Shetland, Orkney, Hebrides, and the Isle of Man. On the journey back to Norway, Haraldr gave the Earldom of Shetland and Orkney to Ragnvald as recompense for the death of his son, Ivar, during the campaign. [This is the traditional account, however there is every possibility that Ragnvald seized these territories independently of Harald.] Ragnvald gave these lands to his brother, Sigurd. Gaelic annals recording the wasting of Pictland in the reign of Domnall mac Custantin, 889-900, are probably referring to the activities of Sigurd and his ally, Thorstein the Red, son of Olaf Hvitr of Dublin. They made great incursions into Caithness and Sutherland. [W. F. Skene, Chronicles of the Picts, 1867.]

c. 884 The unification of Norway was a gradual process, but the the Battle of Hafrsfjord has traditionally been regarded as the decisive battle. Most modern scholars agree that the Battle of Hafrsfjord took place during the 880s: 'A great battle began, which was both hard and long; but at last King Haraldr gained the day. There King Eirik fell, and King Sulke, with his brother Earl Sote. Thor Haklang, who was a great berserk, had laid his ship against King Harald's, and there was above all measure a desperate attack, until Thor Haklang fell, and his whole ship was cleared of men. Then King Kjotve fled to a little isle outside, on which there was a good place of strength. Thereafter all his men fled, some to their ships, some up to the land; and the latter ran southwards over the country of Jadar.' [Harald Harfager's Saga, ch. 19.]

c. 891 Ragnvald's son, Rolf Ragnvaldsson, was banished from Norway. He joined the war band of his uncle, Malahule Eysteinsson, who would not submit to Harald's rule, and who had been campaigning in France for a number of years. This war band ultimately wrested control of Normandy from France, Rolf becoming more widely known as Rolf The Ganger, 872-931, first Duke of Normandy. Rolf's crime was that 'One summer, as he was coming from the eastward on a viking's expedition to the coast of Viken, he landed there and made a cattle foray. As King Harald happened, just at that time, to be in Viken, he heard of it, and was in a great rage; for he had forbid, by the greatest punishment, the plundering within the bounds of the country. [Harald Harfager's Saga, ch. 24.]

c. 892 Sigurd Eysteinsson defended Orkney against the Scottish Earl Maelbrigte - nicknamed Maelbrigte Tusk because of his protruding teeth - defeating him. He had the severed heads of the defeated strapped to his mens' saddles, his saddle bearing Maelbrigte's head. When Sigurd went to spur his horse, to commence what I suppose was a victory parade, his calf was pierced by a tooth sticking out of Maelbrigte's mouth! This proved fatal. Sigurd died of an infection. He was laid in a mound at Cyderhall - Sigurd's Howe - near Dornoch. Sigurd's son, Guthorm Sigurdsson, briefly succeeded his father by one winter, but died without issue.

The manner of Guthorm's death is not recorded. However, the sagas portray this to be a time of much conflict, with sons of Harald Harfager being actively engaged in open hostilities against Ragnvald Eysteinsson's family, of whom they were jealous. It can be noted that Ragnvald had initially fought against his second cousin, only joining him when that seemed to be the sensible option. As a result of Harald's forced redistribution of land in Norway, Ragnvald's family had become immensly rich and politically powerful. In this latter respect, note Sigurd Eysteinsson's alliance with the Vikings of Dublin. Ragnvald's family were now a serious threat to Harald, especially if allying themselves with the Earls of Lade, who had not acknowledged Harald's hegemony. The death of Sigurd would have been a propitious time for Harald to place one of his sons as Jarl of Orkney, thus creating a loyal outpost to his kingdom. It would seem entirely probable that Guthorm Sigurdsson was an early casualty of Harald's political intent.

c. 893 When Ragnvald heard of Guthorm's death, he sent one of his sons, Hallad Ragnvaldsson, to be the third Jarl. He did not defend Orkney well against what the sagas portray as repeated Viking attacks, and returned to Norway in disgrace. [Harald Harfager's Saga, ch. 22.]

c. 894 Ragnvald, seeking to secure Orkney, summoned three of his sons to a war-counsel. It was decided that that his eldest son, Hrollager Ragnvaldsson, would campaign in Iceland; the one-eyed Turf-Einar Ragnvaldsson, 866-910, would sail for Orkney, and Thorer The Silent Ragnvaldsson, 873-925, would remain in Norway. [Harald Harfager's Saga, ch. 27.] Turf-Einar was a redoutable warrior. The stakes had risen. Harald's sons, Halfdan Haaleg and Gudrod Ljome, sons by Snaefrid Svasedottir, surrounded Ragnvald in his house one night, and burnt him and sixty of his men to death. Gudrod claimed Ragnvald's lands, and Halfdan sailed to Orkney to slay Turf-Einar. It would seem improbable that such an outrage could have happened without Harald's permission.

Turf-Einar was taken by surprise when attacked by Halfdan Haaleg, and fled to the mainland, but returned a short while after ready for battle. He defeated Halfdan in a sea battle, after which, 'Einar and his men lay all night without tents, and when it was light in the morning they searched the whole island and killed every man they could lay hold of ....... Earl Einar went up to Halfdan, and cut a spread eagle upon his back, by striking his sword through his back into his belly, dividing his ribs from the backbone down to his loins, and tearing out his lungs; and so Halfdan was killed ....... Then Earl Einar took possession of the Orkney Isles as before. Now when these tidings came to Norway, Halfdan's brothers took it much to heart, and thought that his death demanded vengeance; and many were of the same opinion.' [Harald Harfager's Saga, chs. 30-32.]

Harald Harfager, being aware of the risks posed by a protracted conflict, did not share that opinion. He forced Gudrod to relinquish Ragnvald's lands, giving them to Ragnvald's son, Thorer, to whom he also gave his daughter, Alof, in marriage. This marriage was by way of weregild - man price - a reparational payment. He went to Orkney with a great force - how could he not ? - but only levied a token fine of sixty gold marks in payment of Haldan's death. [Harald Harfager's Saga, ibid.] Before leaving Turf-Einar, to better fix an idea of him and his descendants in our minds, I would like to give an example of the old Norse language, as developed on Orkney, and similar to that spoken in the high fells of North Yorkshire up to the 16th. Century; though I am not sure that these words or anything closely resembling them were ever said by Turf-Einar!

* Thorer and Alof had issue: Jorund Thorersson, who settled in Iceland, and took land near Lake Udarvatu, living on a farm he called Grund. His son Mar Jorundsson settled a farm called Marstad. Jorund's uncle, Hrollager Ragnvaldsson, established his farm at Felzhverfi. [S. Laing, Journal of a Residence in Norway, p. 261, 1851.]
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Earl of More and Romsdal Rognvald The Mighty 1st Earl of Orkney b.c. 830 M¿re, Nor. Earl of Romsdahl, Norway
m. Ragnhilda dau of Sea K. Rolf NefiaSons: Hrolf (Rollo) 860-933, Earl Hallad, Earl Einar, Hrollager (Iceland), Thordis (m. dau. of King Harold Fairhair), Ivar, Thorer.
The Finnish people come from the family group called Finno-Ugrian. They live in Scandinavia but are not linguistically related to their neighbors. They are loosely related to the Estonians, Huns, Magyars, and Turks. They remained nomadic tribal people who were never organized into a country with a king but we can't rule out a Finnish woman ancestor. Kvenland may have been in central Sweden.
Perhaps you see a name that is also in another of your Scandinavian lines, but remember, just as today, names were widely duplicated. Names were handed down through families. People were named after local and saga heroes. Also people were renamed when they moved from one stage of their lives to another. Because of this renaming, different genealogical charts have been drawn up. Not until we get to Beiti, can we be surer of this lineage.
Rognvald, the Wise, was a near relative of King Harold. His son married the daughter of King Harold of Norway who began extending his power in 860. This forced many sons and cousins of jarls (Earls) out of their lands and kingdoms into commerce or raiding.

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Ragnvald "the Wise" Eysteinsson (830-890) (Old Norse: Rögnvaldr Mærajarl), Jarl of Sunnmøre, Nordmøre and Romsdal, was born in Maer, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway and died at the Orkney Islands.

He was son of King Eystein "Glumra (the Noisy)" Ivarsson of Oppland. His maternal grandfather was King Ragnvald the Mountain-High of Vestfold. One of his paternal great-grandfathers was King Halfdan the Old of Oppland.

His second wife was Ragnhild Hrolfsdottir (Raghldr (Hldr) Hrolfsdóttir), daughter of Hrolf Nefia (Hrolfr Nefjaa). Ragnvald was the father of Hrolf Ganger, the founder of Normandy, and Turf-Einar, ancestor of the jarls of Orkney.

He is a direct ancestor of William I of England, Edward III of England, James I of England, and Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. He is therefore the ancestor of most of the royal families of Europe.

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burnt to death in his house. Earl of Maere, Raumdahl, Orkneys, and Shetlands. Source: Brian Tompsett, Dan Pomerleau, Leo van de Pas

Jarl of North and South More, and of Ramsdal in Norway, seen 867.

!DESCENT: Frederick Lewis Weis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr., Ancestral Roots
of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700, 7th ed., at 110
(1992). 121E-17.

[Weis 110] Jarl of North and South More, and of Ramsdal in Norway; seen 978.Rogenwald was a supporter of King Harold Harfagr, and assisted him in obtaining the mastery over the other independent Norwegian chiefs, and in establishing himself as King of all Norway. He was Earl of More and Raumdahl in Norway, and in 888,
he obtained from King Harold a grant of the Orkney and Shetland islands. One of his sons, Rollo, conquered Neustria, founded the line of sovereign Dukes of Normandy, and was ancestor to William the Conqueror. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 492, Sinclair, Earl of Orkney]

RAGNVALD I the Wise, called the Morejarl, son of Eystein Glumra, Jarl of the Uplanders in Norway, grandson of Ivar son of Halfdan the Old, was made Jarl of North and South More and of Raumsdal in Norway by King Harald Haarfagri after his victory of Solskiel circa 869 over Hunthiof, King of More, and Nokve, King of Raumsdal. In that year he surprised Vermund, King of Fiordeland, at Notsdal and burned him in his hall with 90 men. Later King Harald married his sister Swanhilda and had issue, In (?) 874 King Harald made an expedition to the Nordreys (Orkney and Shetland) to enforce his authority over those who had fled thither in order to escape from it in Norway. Either during this expedition or previously at the battle of Hafrsfiord circa 872 Ivar, the eldest son of Ragnvald, was killed and the King gave the Orkneys and Shetlands to Ragnvald as compensation. When the King started home for Norway, (?) Spring 875, Ragnvald, who went with him, gave the islands to his brother Sigurd, and the King confirmed the transfer, Ragnvald was surprised in his hall and burned alive circa 894 by Halfdan Haaleg and Gudred Liomi, King Harald's sons by Snaefrid, dau. of Swasi.

By his wife Ragnhild, dau. of Hrolf Nefia, he had 3 sons: Ivar, who was killed in battle ut supra, Rolf the Ganger, afterwards 1st Duke of Normandy, and Thori the Silent, who was made Jarl of More in succession to his father by Ring Harald Haarfagri circa 894, after Gudred Liomi, who had seized More on the death of Jarl Ragnvald, had been dispossessed by the King. By an earlier union with a nameless girl, whose kindred were all slave-born, Ragnvald had 3 sons, described as s: Hallad, 4th Earl of Orkney, Turf-Einar, 5th Earl of Orkney, and Hrollaug, an unwarlike man, who settled at Eyiafiord in Iceland and had issue. [Complete Peerage, X:Appendix A:3-4]

On the death of his father he succeeded to the lands of North and South Morei in addition to the lands of his nephew Gulturm.

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A Norwegian Viking. He supported King Harold Fairhair in an attempt to unify Norge.[Direct Linage1.FTW]

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Ragnvald I the wise of More, aka Rognvald Mere-Earl. acceded about 872

Ragnvald I, "the Wise", Jarl of North and South More, and of Ramsdal in Norway, see 867, d. 890; m. Hiltrude (or Raginhilde), dau. Hrolf Nefia.

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Glumra Eystein the Noisy, Jarl of the Upplanders.

Eystein Glumra, Jarl of the Upplands, Ca. 830, said to have fathered two known children, Swanhild, wife of Harald, King of Norge; and Ragnvald I, "the Wise".
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bk&q chart 27 on p 439 "Danish and Norse Kingdoms--Earls of Orkney" and pp 385, 440, 441-2, 498

p 498 "Willelm (le Bastard) was descended from RAGNALD, the ancestor of the earls of Orkney."

p 385 (under Olaf the White) ". . . The historical record is vague about Olaf's fate. One record suggests that he became involved with RAGNALD in the battle to clear the Orkneys of Norse pirates and was killed at the battle of Hafrsfiord in 872. . . . He (Olaf) was hailed as the greatest ruler of the western seas."

p 440 [NB1] The jarl or earl of More on the west coast of Norge, who fought alongside the future king Harald Finehair in establishing a united Norge. Harald married Ragnald's sister Swanhilda. During this civil war many Norwegians were driven out of Norge and settled in the Shetlands and Orkney, called the Nordreys by the Norse (as distinct from the Sudreys, or Hebrides and Man), which they used as a base to attack Norway and Norse ships. The traditional view is that around 874 Harald sent Ragnald to the Hebrides to bring these islands under his authority. During the expedition Ragnald's son, Ivar, was killed. As a consequence, once Ragnald had conquered the islands, Harald granted them back to him in recompense for his son. The more recent view is that Ragnald may have set out earlier on the expedition to conquer the Nordrey pirates himself and worked in league with Olaf the White, who was the Norse king of Dublin. According to this view Olaf granted Ragnald the Orkneys around the year 871 or earlier. However, Ragnald had no desire to remain in the isles so in 875 (or earlier) Ragnald gave the islands to his brother Sigurd, and returned to Norge where he continued to fight on behalf of the king. This created enemies and around the year 894 he was burned alive in his hall by two of Harald's sons by another wife. Ragnald had three children by his wife Ragnhild. In addition to Ivar, who died, there was Rolf, who became the first Duke of Normandy, and Þori, who succeeded him as Jarl of More. He also had several illegitimate sons, two of whom (Hallad and Einar I) became later earls of Orkney.

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Ragnvald I 'the Wise' Eysteinsson, Earl of More is the son of Eystein 'the Noisy' Glumra, Jarl of the Uplanders and Ascrida Ragnvaldsdottir.1 He died circa 890, burnt to death in his house.
Ragnvald I 'the Wise' Eysteinsson, Earl of More gained the title of Earl of More. Ragnvald I 'the Wise' Eysteinsson, Earl of More also went by the nick-name of 'The Mighty'.

Children of Ragnvald I 'the Wise' Eysteinsson, Earl of More and Groa
Hallad Ragnvaldsson, Earl of Orkney 1
Turf-Einar Ragnvaldsson, Earl of Orkney 1
Hrollaug Ragnvaldsson 1

Children of Ragnvald I 'the Wise' Eysteinsson, Earl of More and Ragnhild Hrolfsdottir
Ivar Ragnvaldsson 1
Thori 'the Silent' Ragnvaldsson, Jarl of More+ 1
Rollo Ragnvaldsson, 1st Duc de Normandie+ b. c 846, d. c 9311
Citations
1. [S106] Royal Genealogies Website (ROYAL92.GED), online . Hereinafter cited as Royal Genealogies Website.

[2089] orig source (DUDLE.GED?) Eystein Glumra "the Fart", abt 830

WSHNGT.ASC file (Geo Washington Ahnentafel) # 69801536 = 7365680

Steve Clare papers, Ragnvald

DUDLE.GED file: or '... the Rich'; d.d. abt 894

Jarl of More, in Upland, Norway and of the Isles of Orkney and Shetland Isles -Americans of Royal Descent, Charles H. Browning, p. 30 Rognvald the Mighty-Americans of Royal Descent, Charles H. Browning

"Our Royal Descent from Alfred 'the Great' ..." in Steve Clare papers, Norwegian Jarl

http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~churchh/edw3chrt.html#BEGIN Rognwald b 820

"Bloodline ... ", p 427-31, Ranald I (the Wise) Jarl of Maerr, 1st Jarl of Orkney, d 894

http://www.dcs.hull.ac.uk/cgi-bin/gedlkup/n=royal?royal06259 Ragnvaldsson, Rolf the Ganger, Duke of Normandy 1st b 846
Acceded: 911
d: 932
Rolf became known as Robert or Rollo in Normandy. I have shown them as father and son, but this is really a way of showing how his attribution changed . AKA Rolf Wend-a-Foot.
[DKB: what does the above mean??]

URL: http://www.orkneyjar.com/history/historicalfigures/sigmighty.htm

Earl Sigurd the Powerful

The first Earl of Orkney

Sigurd Eysteinsson - or Earl Sigurd the Powerful - was the first Earl of Orkney.

But although the Orkneyinga Saga makes it clear that Earl Sigurd I was one of the three great earls of Orkney, it contains very few details of his reign.

Sigurd enters the saga as the forecastleman of one of King Harald Fairhair’s ships on the voyage of conquest into Orkney, Shetland and the Western Isles.

According to the saga, the Norwegian king had sailed westwards to deal with Vikings who, after raiding Norway throughout the summer, were making the Northern Isles their base.

Harald’s forces conquered Orkney and Shetland before going on to the Hebrides and the Isle of Man.

On the voyage Sigurd’s brother, Earl Rognvald of More, received the Earldom of Orkney from King Harald as compensation for the loss of his son, Ivar.

Sigurd gains the Earldom

Rognvald had no intentions of staying in the islands so passed the Earldom on to Sigurd, who became Earl Sigurd I of Orkney. As Earl, Sigurd ruled wisely and became very powerful - but unfortunately the saga says little more of his reign. Instead the reader is hurled into the tale of Earl Sigurd’s death - a story that remains firmly in the memories of Orcadians today as a folk origin for the Kirkwall Ba’ game.

Earl Sigurd had formed an alliance with Thorstein the Red, travelling south into Scotland where they conquered all of Caithness and large parts of Argyll, Moray and Ross.

Glossing over the exact details of the campaign, the saga goes on to tell us that Earl Sigurd constructed a stronghold in Moray before mentioning a feud between Sigurd and a local magnate Maelbrigte.

The reason for the two men’s enmity is not given but it was undoubtedly to do with the Orkney earl’s forays into Scottish territory. Whatever the cause, both men agreed they should meet to settle their differences, each taking no more than forty men.

Sigurd, however, decided that the Scots were not to be trusted and turned up with eighty warriors - two warriors mounted on each of his forty horses.

Orcadian Treachery

Maelbrigte was aware that treachery was afoot when he noticed there were two feet on each side of every horse. Knowing he had been betrayed by the Orkney earl, he instructed his men to fight on and slay two of the enemy each. A battle ensued and, despite their bravery, the outnumbered Scottish side perished and Maelbrigte was slain.

Elated at his victory, Sigurd had the heads of his vanquished enemies severed and strapped to the saddles of his warriors as a show of his triumph.

Snatching up his grizzly trophy, Sigurd followed suit and fastened Maelbrigte’s head to his saddle. After mounting his horse the earl’s forces headed north but Maelbrigte had his revenge. While spurring his horse during the ride home, Earl Sigurd’s leg was scratched by Maelbrigte’s protruding buck-tooth.

Sigurd's Howe

The scratch became infected and before long Earl Sigurd the Powerful died. He was buried at “Ekkjalsbakki” - the banks of the River Oykell in Scotland. Although the exact location is unknown, the area of Earl Sigurd’s burial place is now known as Ciderhall - a corruption of the Norse words meaning “Sigurd’s Howe”. See side panel for further details.

His son, Guthrom, ruled the earldom for one winter before dying childless. Earl Rognvald of More son was then sent from Norway to become earl.

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URL: http://www.orkneyjar.com/history/vikingorkney/torfeinar.htm

Torf-Einar and the Blood Eagle

"After [Sigurd] Torf-Einar, a son of Ragnvald, took the earldom, and was long earl, and was a man of great power"
Heimskringla - Saga of Olaf Haraldson

After the death of Earl Sigurd the Mighty around 893AD, the Orkney earldom passed to his son Guthorm.

Guthorm died childless "after one winter", leaving the earldom with no direct heir, so Rognvald of Møre sent his son, Hallad, from Norway to Orkney. Repeated Viking raids after Hallad's arrival, and his inability to deal with them, prompted the new earl to give up the earldom and return to the safety of Norway.

Next in line was Rognvald's son Hrolf, who was later to found the Norman dynasty in France. Hrolf, however, was away warring in the Baltic so eventually the earldom passed to Rognvald's bastard son Einar.

Einar Rognvaldsson's accession to the earldom pleased his father greatly. A bastard son, Einar was undoubtedly a thorn in his father's side.

"Considering the kind of mother you have," said the Earl, "slave bornon each side of her family, you are not likely to make much of a ruler. The sooner you leave and the later you return, the happier I'll be."
Orkneyinga Saga, Chapter 6

A renowned poet, the saga decribes Einar - or Torf-Einar as he came to be known - as ugly and one-eyed. Despite his father's words, the "low born" son of a slave went on to be an able ruler and warrior.

Danish vikings

After Hallad's retreat to Norway, two Danish Vikings - Thorir Treebeard and Kalf Scurvy - had established a base in Orkney. Einar, equipped with a shipload of men travelled first to Shetland before heading to Orkney, where he defeated the Danes in battle. He then "laid the lands under him, and made himself the greatest chief."

The treachery of Halfdan

Einar came into conflict with Norway, after Halfdan Longlegs, the son of the Norwegian King, Harald Fairhair, attacked Einar's father Rognvald. Halfdan, together with his brother Gudrod Gleam, were rebellious troublemakers who preyed on Norway's earls.

Attacking the aged Rognvald, Halfdan had the earl killed, burning him alive in his house, before fleeing to Orkney to escape the wrath of King Harald. In Orkney, Halfdan declared himself king, and Earl Einar fled to Scotland. Later the same year, after gathering an army, Einar returned where he defeated Halfdan in a naval battle off North Ronaldsay. After the battle Halfdan leapt from his ship to escape Einar and swam to safety.

At first light the following morning, Einar and his men scoured North Ronaldsay. Eventually, the earl, who was renowned for the keeness of sight of his one eye, spotted something moving by the shore. His men moved to intercept and they captured a bedraggled Halfdan.

Einar, seeking revenge for the death of his father, slaughtered Halfdan, the Orkneyinga Saga explaining with relish that Einar carved the notorious blóðörn - blood-eagle - on his struggling captive:

"Einar had his ribs cut from the spine with a sword and the lungs pulled out through the slits in his back. He dedicated the victim to Odin as a victory offering."
Orkneyinga Saga

Though barbaric, Einar's revenge remains touching, for although Rognvald seems to have had no time for his bastard son, Einar's revenge at least hints that he held his father in some esteem.

Earl Einar Rognvaldsson died peacefully in his bed, leaving three sons - Arnkel, Erlend and Thorfinn Skullsplitter.

[Geoffrey De Normandie, Gedcom BSJTK Smith Family Tree.ged]

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Name Suffix: Earl of More and Romsdal
Name Suffix: Earl of More and Romsdal
Rogenwald was a supporter of King Harold Harfagr, and assisted him in
obtaining the mastery over the other independent Norwegian chiefs,
and in establishing himself as King of all Norway.
He was Earl of More and Raumdahl in Norway,and in 888,
he obtained from King Harold a grant of the Orkney and Shetland islands.
One of his sons, Rollo, conquered Neustria, founded the line of sovereign Dukes of Normandy,
and was ancestor to William the Conqueror. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant,
Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p.
492, Sinclair, Earl of Orkney]

Rogenwald was a supporter of King Harold Harfagr, andassisted him in
obtaining the mastery over the other independent Norwegian chiefs,
and in establishing himself as King of all Norway.
He was Earl of More and Raumdahl in Norway,and in 888,
he obtained from King Harold a grant ofthe Orkney and Shetland islands.
One of his sons, Rollo, conquered Neustria,founded the line of sovereign
Dukes of Normandy, and was ancestor to Williamthe Conqueror.
[Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages,
Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 492, Sinclair, Earl of Orkney]

Sources: A. Roots 121E, 243A; Norr; RC 166, 295; History of the Vikings;
Russell; Pfafman; Kraentzler 1453, 1593; Falaise Roll, page 80; Norr, p59.
Roots: Ragnvald I, "the Wise," Jarl of North and South More, and of Ramsdel
in Norway, seen 867, died 890. More also spelled Moer and Maer.
RC: Rognvald Eysteinsson "the Wise", Jarl of More, a Norwegian Viking.
K: Regenwald de Maere & de Reumdahl in Norway. Ragnivald I, Count de Maere.
Russell: Rogvald, Jarl of More, A.D. 885.

Earl of More/Moer in Norway and Jarl of Orkney and Shetland.He had his name
Gallicized to Reginald. He supported King Harold Fairhair in an attempt to
unify Norway. Norr: Jarl Rognwald (Rogvald, Raonwald, Regvald, Rouis), created Earl of Moer
in 885. Roll: Rognwald, Earl of Maere.
Norr: JarlRogwald (Raowald, Regvald, Rouis), Earl of Moer 885. Married
Hilder.
Beyond Rognvald, things get pretty confused. Norr has about 25 generations
going backto Oden. RC doesn't agree. But some RC names coming down from RC's
Odin agreein the upper portion. But the dates are some 250 years different.
RC and Kraentzler agree in taking Rognvald back three more generations.
Russell goes way back to Olaf the Sharp-eyed, King of Rerik.

He was called "Rognvald, the Powerful and Resourceful." According to medieval historian, Snorri Sturluson, Rognvald governed North Moer and Raums Dale in Norway. Rognvald was a close friend of King Harald I (Haarfagre/Fairhair).
c. 868 Ragnvald fought on the side of his kinsman against these pirate-jarls, and was rewarded with the territories of More and Romsdal. This was after the Battle of Solskel, in which Jarl Hunthiof of More and Jarl Novke of Romsdal were defeated. More and Romsdal are in western Norway, bordering on the Atlantic Ocean. Occupation: Jarl of Maera, More and Romsdahl. The old vikings had long beards and hair. There came a time when ways began to change and that fashion changed as well. King Harold Fairhair, first king of Norway was given his name by our ancestor, Earl Rognvald. It happened in this way: King Harold was at a feast at Rognvald's holding at More and prepared for it by having a bath and having his long hair washed. Earl Rognvald cut his hair which had been uncut and uncombed for 10 years and had caused his name "Lufa" or "Rough Matted Hair". Such beautiful, abundant, fair hair was revealed after the washing that Rognvald gave him the name "Harold Harfager" (Harold Fairhair). All present agreed. This was described in the Hiemskringla by Snorri Sturleson. Ragnvald was surprised in his hall and burned alive circa 894 by Halfdan Haaleg and Gudred Liomi, King Harald's sons by Snaefrid, dau. of Swasi.

!Name is; Rognvald I, "The Wise" Jarl Of /MORE/

Naissance : ou bien en Maer en NORVEGE
Ragenold le normand de More, Fornioter, d'origine finnoise,25 fils.
Baptisé en Uppland DANEMARK
Profession : Jarl ou Comte de More en Norvège.et 1er Comte des orcades (Ecosse)

Marié aussi avec N... Ermina née vers 840.

Ragnvald Eysteinsson le sage, jarl de Moere de Heidmark, (vers 835 Uppland, Danemark - vers 890 Orcades, Ecosse) épousa Ragnhilde de Moere, comtesse de Maer, (vers 845 - ?)
- Rollon de Normandie, (vers 860 Norvège - vers 931 ) (Gen. 32(4),33(12),34(7),35,36)
- Hrollanger de Heidmark (vers 874 - ?) (Gen. 34(2),36)

Ragnwald Le Puissant

!Name is; Rognvald I, "The Wise" Jarl Of /MORE/

Ragnvald "the Wise" Eysteinsson (830?890) (Old Norse: Rgnvaldr M?rajarl Norwegian: Ragnvald Mrejarl), was jarl (earl) in the northwest coast of Norway, called More, approximately of the Norwegian county today known as Mre og Romsdal. He died at the Orkney Islands. He was son of King Eystein "Glumra (the Noisy)" Ivarsson of Oppland. His maternal grandfather was King Ragnvald the Mountain-High of Vestfold. One of his paternal great-grandfathers was King Halfdan the Old of Oppland. Mythical material (saga) postulate that his line was a male-line descent from Ancient kings of Finland. His second wife was Ragnhild Hrolfsdottir (Raghildr (Hildr) Hrolfsdttir), daughter of Hrolf Nefia (Hrolfr Nefja). Ragnvald was the father of Hrolf Ganger, who according to Norse-Icelandic tradition was the founder of Normandy, (from his marriage), and Turf-Einar, ancestor of the jarls of Orkney (from a concubine). If Hrolf Ganger was indeed the founder of Normandy, that would mean that Ragnvald`s male-line descen

!Name is; Rognvald I, "The Wise" Jarl Of /MORE/

SOURCE: Wurts, John S., Magna Charta: Pedigrees of the Barons,
Philadelphia, PA: Brookfield Publishing Co, 1942.
Kilde: parents: [Ref: Wurts p421] Kilde: names: [Ref: Wurts p421]
Kilde: date: [Ref: Wurts p421] [Tom Bjornstad, telepost.no>] ...Ragnvald Morejarl (or Rannald or Reginald, Earl of
More) from More in Norway...
[DC] Ragnvald I EYSTEINSON. Jarle of Moere. Aka Rognald Mere-Earl and
'the Wise of More'.

#Générale#Naissance : ou bien en Maer en NORVEGE
Baptisé en Uppland DANEMARK
Profession : Jarl

{geni:occupation} Mørejarl, Earl of Møre and Romsdal, Earl of More and Romsdal, Earl of More, also "The Wise", Earl of Shetland and Orkney, Count of Maer, Jarl of North and South More and Of Ramsdal, Jarl á Mæri., Jarl á Mæri, He was a Norwegian Viking - Viikinki

{geni:about_me} Rǫgnvaldr Mörejarl, son Eysteins glumru. Earl of Møre and father of Gange-Hrolf Rollo of Normandie.

== Basics ==
* Father: Eystein "Glumra" Ivarsson
* Mother: Asdis (Ascrida) (undocumented)
* Concubines: Names unknown
** Son: Hallad
** Son: Hrollaug, who settled in Iceland
** Son: Torf-Einar, who settled in Orkney
* Wife: Ragnhild (also called Hild) Hrolfsdatter
** Son: Gange-Rolf, who settled in Normandie
** Son: Ivar, killed in battle
** Son: Tore Teiande, who became a jarl in Norway

== LInks and notes ==
http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/NORWEGIAN%20NOBILITY.htm#Ragnvalddied894A
http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragnvald_M%C3%B8rejarl
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragnvald_Eysteinsson
http://lind.no/nor/index.asp?lang=&emne=nor&person=Ragnvald%20%D8ysteinsson
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Død omkring 892. Han var sønn av Øystein Glumra.
Ragnvald var gift med Hild Rolvsdatter. De hadde barna:
1. Gange-Rolv Ragnvaldson av Normandie. Født mellom 860 og 866. Død 931.
2. Tore Teiande Ragnvaldson Mørejarl. Født omkring 862. Død mellom 938 og 940.

I henhold til Orknøyingenes saga går Ragnvalds ætt tilbake til «Heite Gors sønn var far til Sveide sjøkonge, far til Halvdan den gamle, far til Ivar Opplendingejarl, far til Øystein Glumra, far til Ragnvald jarl den mektige og den rådsnare». Den samme sagaen strekker hans ætt tilbake til en mytologisk opprinnelse til skikkelse ved navn Fornjot fra Finland eller Kvenland.

Ragnvald levde på Harald Hårfagres tid, og ble av ham forlenet med Nordmøre, Romsdal og Sundmøre i 865. Han var av sine samtidige høyt ansett for sin klokskap og ble kalt «den mektige». Det var han som klipte Haralds hår, som da ikke var klippet på 10 år.
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RAGNVALD "the Wise", son of [EYSTEIN "Glumra/Clatterer" Jarl in Norway & his wife ---] (-[894]). Orkneyinga Saga names “Eystein the Clatterer, father of the wise counsellor Earl Rognwald the Powerful…”, adding that “Earl Rognwald campaigned with King Harald Fine-Hair who gave him charge of North More, South More and Romsdale”[141].

Snorre names "Ragnvald Earl of More, a son of Eystein "Glumra" when recording that he had become a supporter of King Harald who had invested him with the districts of North More and Raumsdal[142]. Snorre records that he was created Jarl of North and South Möre and of Raumsdal in Norway by Harald I "Hårfagre" King of Norway after his victory at Solskiel [869] against Hunthiof King of Möre and Nokve King of Raumsdal[143].

Orkneyinga Saga and Snorre both record that King Harald granted Shetland and Orkney to Ragnvald in compensation for the death of his son Ivar[144]. The Historia Norwegie records that "principi Rogwaldi" crossed the Solund Sea, destroyed the peoples of the Orkney islands, in the days of "Haraldi Comati regis…Norwegie"[145].

Orkneyinga Saga records that “Halfdan Long-Leg and Gudrod Gleam, King Harald´s sons by Snæfrid” attacked “Earl Rognvald of More, killed him and assumed his authority”[146].

Snorre records that Ragnvald was ambushed in his hall and burned alive by Halfdan Haaleg and Gudred Liomi, two of King Harald's sons[147].

m [RAGNHILD, daughter of HROLF “Nevja/Nose” & his wife ---. Orkneyinga Saga records that “Earl Rognwald” married “Ragnhild the daughter of Hrolf Nose”[148]. Snorre names "Hild, a daughter of Rolf Nefia" as the wife of "Earl Ragnvald"[149].]

[Ragnvald & his wife had three children:]

1. [IVAR (-killed in battle either Hafrsfiord [872] or Orkney [874]). Orkneyinga Saga names “Ivar and Thorer the Silent” as the two other sons of “Earl Rognwald” and his wife “Ragnhild the daughter of Hrolf Nose”, adding that Ivar was killed in battle fighting with Harald I "Hårfagre" King of Norway in Scotland[150]. Snorre names "Ivar, a son of Ragnvald Earl of More" when recording his death in battle during a Viking campaign against the Scottish islands[151]. The Complete Peerage dates the appointment of Sigurd (Ivar´s reported paternal uncle) as Jarl of Orkney to [875][152], which means that Ivar must have been killed shortly before this date. However, as explained below this causes considerable chronological difficulties with the reported events in the career of Turf-Einar, Ivar´s youngest illegitimate half-brother, so should be considered as extremely approximate.

2. [ROLLO [Hrolf "Ganger/the Walker"] (-[928]). Orkneyinga Saga names “Hrolf who conquered Normandy” as son of “Earl Rognwald” and his wife “Ragnhild the daughter of Hrolf Nose”, adding that he was so big that no horse could carry him, giving rise to his name “Göngu-Hrolf”[153]. Snorre names "Rolf and Thorer" as the two sons of "Earl Ragnvald" and his wife Hild, recording that Rolf was banished from Norway by King Harald and travelled to the Hebrides, settling first in Orkney before moving southwards through Scotland, and eventually conquering Normandy[154]. The Historia Norwegie records that, after Orkney was conquered by "principi Rogwaldi" and his followers, "de quorum collegio…Rodulfus" captured Rouen in Normandy, commenting that he was known as "Gongurolfr" because he was obliged to walk as he was too large to travel on horseback[155]. This source makes no reference to any blood relationship between Rollo and "principi Rogwaldi". According to Dudo of Saint-Quentin, Rollo arrived in northern France in 876[156], although there is some debate about [900] being a more likely date[157]. William of Jumièges records that Rollo was chosen by lot to be leader of the Viking colonists[158]. Viking raids intensified in northern France. Although they were defeated after raiding Chartres [911], Charles III "le Simple" King of the West Franks granted the Normans land around Rouen in which to settle[159]. The uncertain nature of the demise was the source of future problems between the French crown, which claimed that it was an enfeofment for which the ruler owed allegiance, and the later Dukes of Normandy who claimed it was an unconditional allod for which no allegiance was owed. A charter dated 14 Mar 918 which granted land to the monastery of Saint-Germain-des-Prés "except that part…which we have granted to the Normans of the Seine, namely to Rollo and his companions"[160]. He was later known as ROBERT I Comte [de Normandie].]

3. [THORE Ragnvaldsson "Tause/the Silent". Orkneyinga Saga names “Ivar and Thorer the Silent” as the two other sons of “Earl Rognwald” and his wife “Ragnhild the daughter of Hrolf Nose”[161]. Snorre names "Rolf and Thorer" as the two sons of "Earl Ragnvald" and his wife Hild[162]. He succeeded his father in [894] as Jarl of Möre, having dispossessed Gudrod "Ljome", son of King Harald, who had seized Möre on the death of Jarl Ragnvald[163].

m ([890]) ALOF "Aarbod/Season-bettering", daughter of HARALD I "Hårfagre/Harfagri/Fairhair" King of Norway & his second wife Gyda of Hordaland. Snorre records that King Harald gave Jarl Thore his daughter "Alof, called Arbot" after the king confirmed him as Jarl of Möre[164].] [Thore & his wife had one child:]

a) [BERGLJOT Thoresdatter. The Historia Norwegie names "Bergliota filia Thoris Tacentis", from "nobilissima Morensium ac Halogensium comitum prosapia", as the wife of "Siwardo"[165]. Snorre names "Bergljot, a daughter of Earl Thorer the Silent" & his wife as the wife of Sigurd[166].

m SIGURD Jarl, son of HAAKON Grjotgardson Jarl of Haalogaland & his wife -- (-murdered Oglo 962).]

[Ragnvald had three illegitimate children by unknown mistresses:]

4. [HALLAD . Orkneyinga Saga names “Hallad, Hrollaug and the youngest Einar” as “natural sons” of “Earl Rognwald”[167]. Snorre names "Hallad, the second Einar, the third Hrollaug" as the three sons of "Earl Ragnvald" by concubines, adding that they were all "grown men" when their legitimate brothers were still children[168]. Orkneyinga Saga records that Ragnvald sent “his son Hallad west to the islands” after hearing of the death of his brother and nephew, and that Harald I "Hårfagre" King of Norway gave “the title of earl” to Hallad who “came to Orkney and took up residence on Mainland”[169]. Snorre records that Earl Ragnvald installed his son Hallad as Jarl of Orkney after the death of his brother Sigurd, but that he resigned the earldom and returned to Norway[170]. Orkneyinga Saga records that, following complaints by farmers about Viking raids, Hallad “tiring of his rule, gave up the earldom and went back to Norway as a common landholder” which “made him a laughing stock”[171].

5. [HROLLAUG . Orkneyinga Saga names “Hallad, Hrollaug and the youngest Einar” as “natural sons” of “Earl Rognwald”[172]. Snorre names "Hallad, the second Einar, the third Hrollaug" as the three sons of "Earl Ragnvald" by concubines, adding that they were all "grown men" when their legitimate brothers were still children[173].

Orkneyinga Saga records that Ragnvald told his son Hrollaug that “your fate will take you to Iceland [where] you´ll have plenty of descendants”[174]. His alleged descendants in Iceland shown below are as stated in Thorstein Side-Hallum's Saga and Flatey-book's St Olaf's Saga[175] but the accuracy of this information, which has not been corroborated in other sources, is unknown. m ---. The name of Hrollaug´s wife is not known.] [Hrollaug & his wife had one child:]

a) [JON Ozur . m ---. The name of Jon´s wife is not known.] [Jon & his wife had one child:]

i) [THOREY . m ---. The name of Thorey´s wife is not known.] [Thorey & his wife had one child:]

(a) [HALL of Sida . m ---. The name of Hall´s wife is not known.] [Hall & his wife had two children:]

(1) [THORSTEIN . Aged 20 at the battle of Clontarf 1014.

(2) [THORDIS . Orkneyinga Saga records that “the mother of…Ospak was Thordis, daughter of Hall of Sida”[176]. m ---. The name of Thordis´s husband is not known.] Thordis & her husband had one child:

a. USPAK . Orkneyinga Saga records that “Earl Erlend Thorfinnson” married “Thora, the daughter of Sumarlidi Ospaksson”, adding that “the mother of…Ospak was Thordis, daughter of Hall of Sida”[177]. m ---. The name of Uspak´s wife is not known. Uspak & his wife had one child:

(i) SOMERLED . Orkneyinga Saga records that “Earl Erlend Thorfinnson” married “Thora, the daughter of Sumarlidi Ospaksson”[178]. m ---. The name of Somerled´s wife is not known. Somerled & his wife had one child:

(a) THORA . Orkneyinga Saga records that “Earl Erlend Thorfinnson” married “Thora, the daughter of Sumarlidi Ospaksson”, adding that “the mother of this Ospak was Thordis, daughter of Hall of Sida”[179]. Orkneyinga Saga records that “his mother was married…to a man called Sigurd” when her son Magnus returned to Orkney, adding that she and her second husband had a son “Hakon Karl…[and] a farm at Paplay”[180]. m firstly ERLEND Thorfinsson Jarl of Orkney, son of THORFINN "the Black" Jarl of Orkney & his wife Ingibjörg Finnsdatter (-in prison Nidaros 1098, bur Nidaros). m secondly SIGURD of Paplay .

b) [HALLBERA . m ASBIORN, son of HRAFUNKEL of Steinrodar-Stadir in Iceland.]

6. [EINAR "Turf-Einar” . Orkneyinga Saga names “Hallad, Hrollaug and the youngest Einar” as “natural sons” of “Earl Rognwald”[181]. Snorre names "Hallad, the second Einar, the third Hrollaug" as the three sons of "Earl Ragnvald" by concubines, adding that they were all "grown men" when their legitimate brothers were still children[182].

Orkneyinga Saga records that Ragnvald sent his “youngest son Einar” to “the islands” after his brother Hallad returned to Norway and that Harald I "Hårfagre" King of Norway gave “the title of earl”, adding that his mother was “slave-born on each side of her family”, and stating that he killed “Thorir Tree-Beard and Kalf Scurvy” and succeeded in imposing his authority in Orkney where “he was the first man to dig peat for fuel…at Tarbat Ness in Scotland”, and that he “was tall and ugly…and…one-eyed”[183]. It should be noted that there are considerable chronological difficulties with the career of Turf-Einar and his sons, as reported in Orkneyinga Saga.

The starting point for the analysis of these problems is the date of the battle in Northumbria in which Turf-Einar´s two oldest sons were killed, which can with reasonable accuracy be placed in the early 950s. If these two sons were at least in their late thirties or forties when they died (a difficult assumption to make considering that they had no reported direct heirs), their births could not be placed before [905/15] at the earliest. The likelihood would then be that their father, Turf-Einar, was not born much earlier than [975/95]. The difficulty is that this date is completely incompatible with (a) the fact that the illegitimate sons of Ragnvald were reported as “grown men” when their legitimate half-brothers were children, and (b) that the date when Ivar, the oldest legitimate son, was killed is estimated to [874].

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Snorre Sturlason: Harald Hårfagres saga:
«10. ... Ragnvald Mørejarl, sønn til Øystein Glumra, var blitt kong Haralds mann da om sommeren. Kong Harald satte ham til høvding over disse to fylkene, Nordmøre og Romsdal, og ga ham rett til hjelp både av stormenn og bønder, likeså skip nok til å verge landet for ufred. Han ble kalt Ragnvald jarl den mektige eller den rådsnare, og de sier at begge navnene var sanne. Kong Harald var i Trondheimen vinteren som fulgte.»

«23. Kong Harald var i gjestebud på Møre hos Ragnvald jarl; da hadde han lagt hele landet under seg. Da gikk kongen i bad der. Og nå lot kong Harald håret sitt greie, og Ragnvald jarl skar håret hans; da hadde det ikke vært skåret eller kjemmet på ti år. Før kalte de ham Harald Luva, men nå ga Ragnvald jarl ham nytt navn, og kalte ham Harald Hårfagre. Alle som så ham, sa at det var virkelig et sant navn, for han hadde et hår som var både stort og vakkert.»

Ragnvald ble innebrent på sin gård sammen med 60 mann av Halvdan Hålegg og Gudrød Ljome, to av Haralds sønner, som vill være jarler over Møre. 1)

1). Snorre Sturlason: Harald Hårfagres saga, avsnitt 10, 23-24. Snorre Sturlason: Olav den helliges saga, avsnitt 96. Mogens Bugge: Våre forfedre, nr. 278. Bent og Vidar Billing Hansen: Rosensverdslektens forfedre, side 50, 76.
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Ragnvald's life is described by Snorri Sturluson in The Saga of Harald Hårfagre (Fairhair):
http://lind.no/nor/index.asp?lang=no&emne=asatru&person=&list=&vis=s_e_harald_harfagre#43
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About the name Ragnvald in various versions:
http://www.nordicnames.de/pojk_r/Ragnvald.html
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Ragnvald Øysteinsson Mørejarl (norrønt Rögnvaldr Mœrajarl) (circa 830 - 892) var en jarl på nordvestlandet i Norge på midten av 800-tallet, tilsvarende det området som i dag heter Møre og Romsdal.

Ragnvalds ætt
Ragnvald var sønn av Øystein Ivarsson som ble kalt for Øystein Glumra. I henhold til Orknøyingenes saga går Ragnvalds ætt tilbake til «Heite Gors sønn var far til Sveide sjøkonge, far til Halvdan den gamle, far til Ivar Opplendingejarl, far til Øystein Glumra, far til Ragnvald jarl den mektige og den rådsnare». Den samme sagaen strekker hans ætt tilbake til en mytologisk opprinnelse til skikkelse ved navn Fornjot fra Finland eller Kvenland.

Snorre Sturlasson skriver i Harald Hårfagres saga i Heimskringla: «Ragnvald Mørejarl var den kjæreste venn kong Harald hadde, og kongen satte ham høyt. Ragnvald jarl var gift med Hild, datter til Rolv Nevja; deres sønner var Rolv og Tore. Ragnvald jarl hadde noen frillesønner også; en het Hallad; en annen Einar og en tredje Rollaug; de var voksne da de ektefødte brødrene deres var barn ennå. Rolv var en stor viking; han var så svær til vekst at ingen hest kunne bære ham, derfor gikk han til fots overalt. Han ble kalt for Gange-Rolv. Han herjet ofte i austerveg.»

Ragnvald var således far til sagnomsuste Gange-Rolf som i sagalitteraturen er blitt identifisert som den nordbo som franskmennene kaller for «Rollo» og som grunnla et jarldømme i Normandie. Dette har imidlertid aldri blitt historisk dokumentert. Via sønnen Torv-Einar ble Ragnvalds ætt giftet inn i det skotske kongehuset.

Den rådsnare
Ifølge Snorre satte Harald Hårfagre Ragnvald til å være jarl over Nordmøre og Romsdal (og etter hvert Sunnmøre). Kongen gav ham rett til hjelp av både stormenn og bønder, likeså skip nok til å verge landet for ufred. Ragnvald ble også kalt Ragnvald jarl den mektige eller den rådsnare, og det ble sagt at begge navnene var sanne.

Kongen skal ha betraktet Ragnvald som en av sine viktigste menn og legenden sier at Ragnvald var den som klippet kongens hår da han etter ti år var blitt konge over alle i Norge. Før ble kongen kalt for «Harald Luva» (Lurvehode), men etter at håret var skåret, ga Ragnvald ham et nytt navn, «Hårfagre».

Orknøyene
Snorre forteller at Ragnvald sendte sønnen Hallad vestover etter at broren Sigurd var blitt drept, men han ble så plaget av vikinger og ransmenn at han ble lei og kom tilbake. Faren ble da sint og skjelte ham ut for ikke å ligne på forfedrene sine. Den andre sønnen, Einar, lovte da at han kunne reise til Orknøyene og aldri komme tilbake til Norge mer. Ragnvald jarl skal da ha sagt at det var like greit om han aldri kom tilbake igjen: «For jeg har ikke større håp om at dine frender får ære av deg, for alle i morsætta di er trellbårne».

Ragnvald utstyrte sønnen med skip og mannskap og lot ham dro vestover hvor han kom i kamp med vikinger og drepte dem. På Orknøyene ble han kalt for Torv-Einar for han lot skjære torv som brensel for det vokste ikke trær der. Han ble jarl på Orknøyene og en mektig mann, enøyd og stygg å se på.

Innebrent
Da Harald Hårfagre tok til å eldes ble sønnene hans Halvdan Hålegg og Gudrød Ljome stadig mer misfornøyd med at de selv ikke hadde noe rike mens faren hadde innsatt jarler rundt om i fylkene. De besluttet da å ikke vente mer på odelen sin. Snorre skriver at «de dro ut med en stor flokk og kom uventet over Ragnvald Mørejarl, kringsatte huset hans og brente ham inne med seksti mann.»

Da kongen hørte dette dro han med en stor hær mot Gudrød som overga seg og ble sendt til Agder. Kongen innsatte så Tore Teiande, sønn av Ragnvald Mørejarl, som ny jarl og giftet ham med datteren Ålov. Kongsdatteren ble siden kalt «Årbot». Halvdan Hålegg dro derimot over til Orknøyene, kom uventet på Torv-Einar som måtte flykte, men samme høst kom Torv-Einar tilbake og overrasket Halvdan og fikk ham drept.
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Original text:
Snorri, Heimskringla, Haralds saga hins hárfagra:
"Rögnvaldr Mœrajarl, son Eysteins glumru, hafði þá um sumarit gerzt maðr Haralds konungs. Haraldr konungr setti hann höfðingja yfir þessi tvau fylki, Norðmœri ok Raumsdal, ok fékk honum þar styrk til bæði af ríkismönnum ok bóndum, svá ok skipakost at verja landit fyrir úfriði. Hann var kallaðr Rögnvaldr hinn ríki eða hinn ráðsvinni, ok segja menn at hvárrtveggja væri sannnefni. Haraldr konungr var um vetrinn eptir í Þrándheimi."

[...]

"12. Brenna Vemundar konungs.

Eptir þat lagði Haraldr konungr undir sik Sunnmœri. Vemundr, bróðir Auðbjarnar konungs, hélt Firðafylki ok gerðist konungr yfir. Þetta var síðla um haust, ok gera menn þat ráð með Haraldi konungi, at hann skyldi eigi fara suðr um Stað á haustdegi. Þá setti Haraldr konungr Rögnvald jarl yfir Mœri hváratveggju ok Raumsdal, ok hafði hann þá um sik mikit fjölmenni. Haraldr konungr sneri þá norðr aptr til Þrándheims. Þann sama vetr fór Rögnvaldr jarl hit iðra um Eið, ok svá suðr um Fjörðu. Hann hafði njósn af Vemundi konungi, ok kom um nótt þar sem heitir Naustdalr; Var Vemundr konungr þar á veizlu. Rögnvaldr jarl tók hús á þeim, ok brendi konung inni með níutigi manna. Eptir þat kom Berðlukári til Rögnvalds jarls með langskip alskipat, ok fóru þeir báðir norðr á Mœri. Tók Rögnvaldr jarl skip þau, er átt hafði Vemundr konungr, ok alt lausafé þat er hann fékk. Berðlukári fór norðr til Þrándheims á fund Haralds konungs ok gerðist hans maðr; hann var berserkr mikill."
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Ragnvald Eysteinsson, The Wise (830-890), Earl of Sunnmøre, Nordmøre and Romsdal, was born in Maer Nord-Trøndelag, Norway and died at the Orkney Islands.

He was son of Eystein Glumra the Noisy, Earl of Oppland, and grandson of Halfdan the Old.

His second wife was Ragnhild Ragnhild Hrolfsdottir (Raghldr (Hldr) Hrolfsdóttir) daughter of Hrolfr Nefjaa. Ragnvald was the father of Hrolf Ganger, the founder of Normandy. He was also the father of Turf-Einar, the ancestor of the jarls of Orkney.

He was the direct ancestor to William I of England, Edward III of England, James I of England, and, therefore, Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. He is therefore the ancestor of most of the royal families of Europe.
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Ragnvald Eystemssön, allmänt kallad Mörejarl. norsk
storman i 9:de årh., åtnjöt i hög grad Harald
Hårfagres förtroende och styrde såsom hans jarl
Mörerne (Nord- och Söndmöre samt Romsdalen). R. blef
genom sin ene son. Torv-Einar, stamfader för
Orkenö-jarlarna och genom den andre, Gånge-Rolf,
stamfader för hertigarna af Normandie. Af sina
samtida kallades han den »rådmilde» och den
»mäktige». Trots sin ådagalagda trohet mot konungen
överfölls och dräptes han af dennes söner omkr. 890.
Y. s.

Från Nordisk Familjebok
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Rognvald "The Wise" Eysteinsson (son of Eystein Ivarsson) is the founder of the Earldom of Orkney in the Norse Sagas. Three quite different accounts of the creation of the Norse earldom on Orkney and Shetland exist. The best known is that found in the Heimskringla, but other older traditions are found in the Historia Norvegiae and the Fragmentary Annals of Ireland.

The saga accounts are the best known, and the latest, of the three surviving traditions concerning Rognvald and the foundation of the Earldom of Orkney. Recorded in the 13th century, their views are informed by Norwegian politics of the day. Once, historians could write that no-one denied the reality of Harald Fairhair's expeditions to the west recounted in Heimskringla, but this is no longer the case. The Norwegian contest with the Kings of Scots over the Hebrides and the Isle of Man in the middle 13th century underlies the sagas.[1]

In the Heimskringla, Rognvald is Earl of Møre. He accompanies Harald Fairhair on his great expeditions to the west, to Ireland and to Scotland. Here, Rognvald's son Ivarr is killed. In compensation King Harald grants Rognvald Orkney and Shetland. Rognvald himself returns to Norway, giving the northern isles to his brother Sigurd Eysteinsson.[2]

The Heimskringla recounts other tales of Rognvald. It tells how he causes Harald Finehair to be given his byname Fairhair by cutting and dressing his hair, which had been uncut for ten years on account of Harald's vow never to cut it until he was ruler of all Norway,[3] and it makes him the father of Ganger-Hrólf, identified by saga writers with the Rollo (Hrólfr), ancestor of the Dukes of Normandy, who was said to have been established as Count of Rouen by King Charles the Simple in 931.[4]

Earl Rognvald is killed by Harald's son Halfdan Hålegg. Rognvald's death is avenged by his son, Earl Turf-Einar, from whom later Orkney earls claimed descent, who kills Halfdan on North Ronaldsay.[5]

The Historia Norvegiae's account of Rognvald and the foundation of the Orkney earldom is the next oldest, probably dating from the 12th century. This account contains much curious detail on Orkney, including the earliest account of the Picts as small people who hid in the daytime, but it has little to say about Rognvald.

In the days of Harald Fairhair, king of Norway, certain pirates, of the family of the most vigorous prince Ronald [Rognvald], set out with a great fleet, and crossed the Solundic sea..., and subdued the islands to themselves. And being there provided with safe winter seats, they went in summer-time working tyranny upon the English, and the Scots, and sometimes also upon the Irish, so that they took under their rule, from England, Northumbria; from Scotland, Caithness; from Ireland, Dublin, and the other sea-side towns.[6]

This account does not associate Rognvald with the earldom, but instead attributes it to his anonymous kinfolk.

The oldest account of the Rognvald and the earldom of Orkney is that found in the Fragmentary Annals of Ireland. The annals survive only in incomplete copies made by Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh in the 17th century, but the original annals are believed to date from the lifetime of Donnchad mac Gilla Pátraic (died 1039). The annals are known to have had an influence on later writings in Iceland.

The annals make Rognvald the son of "Halfdan, King of Lochlann". This is generally understood to mean Halfdan the Black, which would make the Rognvald of the annals the brother of Harald Finehair. However, the sagas claim that Rognvald's grandfather was named Halfdan.[7]

These events are placed after an account of the devastation of Fortriu, dated to around 866,[8] and the fall of York, reliably dated to late 867. However, such an early date makes it difficult to reconcile the saga claims that Harald Fairhair was involved in Rognvald's conquest of the northern isles.

Harald Finehair's victory in the Battle of Hafrsfjord, which gave him dominion over parts of Norway, is traditionally dated to 872, but was probably later, perhaps as late as 900.[9] What little is known of Scottish events in the period from the Chronicle of the Kings of Alba would correspond equally well with Harald's attacks on Scotland in the reign of Domnall mac Causantín (ruled 889–900).[10] However, this would not correspond with the sequence in the earliest account of the origins of the Orkney earldom, which places this a generation earlier.

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Ragnvald I 'the Wise' Eysteinsson, Earl of More (1)
M, #104777
Last Edited=28 Oct 2002
Ragnvald I 'the Wise' Eysteinsson, Earl of More is the son of Eystein 'the Noisy' Glumra, Jarl of the Uplanders and Ascrida Ragnvaldsdottir. (1) He died circa 890, burnt to death in his house.
Ragnvald I 'the Wise' Eysteinsson, Earl of More gained the title of Earl of More. Ragnvald I 'the Wise' Eysteinsson, Earl of More also went by the nick-name of 'The Mighty'.
Children of Ragnvald I 'the Wise' Eysteinsson, Earl of More and Groa (?)
-1. Hallad Ragnvaldsson, Earl of Orkney (1)
-2. Turf-Einar Ragnvaldsson, Earl of Orkney (1)
-3. Hrollaug Ragnvaldsson (1)
Children of Ragnvald I 'the Wise' Eysteinsson, Earl of More and Ragnhild Hrolfsdottir
-1. Ivar Ragnvaldsson (1)
-2. Thori 'the Silent' Ragnvaldsson, Jarl of More+ (1)
-3. Rollo Ragnvaldsson, 1st Duc de Normandie+ b. c 846, d. c 931 (1)

Forrás:
http://www.thepeerage.com/p10478.htm#i104777

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Rognvald "The Wise" Eysteinsson (son of Eystein Ivarsson) is the founder of the Earldom of Orkney in the Norse Sagas. Three quite different accounts of the creation of the Norse earldom on Orkney and Shetland exist. The best known is that found in the Heimskringla, but other older traditions are found in the Historia Norvegiae and the Fragmentary Annals of Ireland.

Contents [hide]
1 Sagas
2 Historia Norvegiae
3 Fragmentary Annals of Ireland
4 Notes
5 References

[edit] Sagas
The saga accounts are the best known, and the latest, of the three surviving traditions concerning Rognvald and the foundation of the Earldom of Orkney. Recorded in the 13th century, their views are informed by Norwegian politics of the day. Once, historians could write that no-one denied the reality of Harald Fairhair's expeditions to the west recounted in Heimskringla, but this is no longer the case. The Norwegian contest with the Kings of Scots over the Hebrides and the Isle of Man in the middle 13th century underlies the sagas.[1]

In the Heimskringla, Rognvald is Earl of Møre. He accompanies Harald Fairhair on his great expeditions to the west, to Ireland and to Scotland. Here, Rognvald's son Ivarr is killed. In compensation King Harald grants Rognvald the Orkneys and Shetlands. Rognvald himself returns to Norway, giving the northern isles to his brother Sigurd Eysteinsson[2]

The Heimskringla recounts other tales of Rognvald. It tells how he causes Harald Finehair to be given his byname Fairhair by cutting and dressing his hair, which had been uncut for ten years on account of Harald's vow never to cut it until he was ruler of all Norway,[3] and it makes him the father of Ganger-Hrólf, identified by saga writers with the Rollo (Hrólfr), ancestor of the Dukes of Normandy, who was said to have been established as Count of Rouen by King Charles the Simple in 931.[4]

Earl Rognvald is killed by Harald's son Halfdan Hålegg. Rognvald's death is avenged by his son, Earl Turf-Einar, from whom later Orkney earls claimed descent, who kills Halfdan on North Ronaldsay.[5]

[edit] Historia Norvegiae
The Historia Norvegiae's account of Rognvald and the foundation of the Orkney earldom is the next oldest, probably dating from the 12th century. This account contains much curious detail on Orkney, including the earliest account of the Picts as small people who hid in the daytime, but it has little to say about Rognvald.

In the days of Harald Fairhair, king of Norway, certain pirates, of the family of the most vigorous prince Ronald [Rognvald], set out with a great fleet, and crossed the Solundic sea..., and subdued the islands to themselves. And being there provided with safe winter seats, they went in summer-time working tyranny upon the English, and the Scots, and sometimes also upon the Irish, so that they took under their rule, from England, Northumbria; from Scotland, Caithness; from Ireland, Dublin, and the other sea-side towns.[6]

This account does not associate Rognvald with the earldom, but instead attributes it to his anonymous sons.

[edit] Fragmentary Annals of Ireland
...for it was not long before this that there had been every war and every trouble in Norway, and this was the source of that war in Norway: two younger sons of Albdan, king of Norway, drove out the eldest son, i.e. Ragnall son of Albdan, for fear that he would seize the kingship of Norway after their father. So Ragnall came with his three sons to the Orkneys. Ragnall stayed there then, with his youngest son.
Fragmentary Annals of Ireland , FA 330. Edited and translated by Joan N. Radnor.
The oldest account of the Rognvald and the earldom of Orkney is that found in the Fragmentary Annals of Ireland. The annals survive only in incomplete copies made by Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh in the 17th century, but the original annals are believed to date from the lifetime of Donnchad mac Gilla Patráic (died 1039). The annals are known to have had an influence on later writings in Iceland.

The annals make Rognvald the son of "Halfdan, King of Lochlann". This is generally understood to mean Halfdan the Black, which would make the Rognvald of the annals the brother of Harald Finehair. However, the sagas claim that Rognvald's grandfather was named Halfdan.[7]

These events are placed after an account of the devastation of Fortriu, dated to around 866,[8] and the fall of York, reliably dated to late 867. However, such an early date makes it difficult to reconcile the saga claims that Harald Fairhair was involved in Rognvald's conquest of the northern isles.

Harald Finehair's victory in the Battle of Hafrsfjord, which gave him dominion over parts of Norway, is traditionally dated to 872, but was probably later, perhaps as late as 900.[9] What little is known of Scottish events in the period from the Chronicle of the Kings of Alba would correspond equally well with Harald's attacks on Scotland in the reign of Domnall mac Causantín (ruled 889–900).[10] However, this would not correspond with the sequence in the earliest account of the origins of the Orkney earldom, which places this a generation earlier.

[edit] Notes
^ Crawford, pp. 52–53.
^ Anderson, pp. 332–334; Saga of Harald Fairhair, c. 22.
^ Saga of Harald Fairhair, cc. 4 & 23.
^ Saga of Harald Fairhair, c. 24.
^ Saga of Harald Fairhair, cc. 29–30.
^ Anderson, pp. 330–331.
^ Crawford, pp. 53–54.
^ Anderson, p. 296; Annals of Ulster, s.a. 865.
^ Crawford, p. 55–56.
^ Anderson, pp. 395–396.

[edit] References
Anderson, Alan Orr. Early Sources of Scottish History A.D 500–1286, volume 1. Reprinted with corrections. Paul Watkins, Stamford, 1990. ISBN 1-871615-03-8
Crawford, Barbara. Scandinavian Scotland. Leicester University Press, Leicester, 1987. ISBN 0-7185-1282-0
Ó Corrain, Donnchad. "The Vikings in Scotland and Ireland in the Ninth Century", Peritia, vol 12, pp296–339. (etext (pdf)
Radner, Joan N. (editor and translator). Fragmentary Annals of Ireland. CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts. University College Cork. Retrieved on 2007-03-10.
Radner, Joan N. "Writing history: Early Irish historiography and the significance of form", Celtica, volume 23, pp. 312–325. (etext (pdf))
Smyth, Alfred P. Warlords and Holy Men: Scotland AD 80–1000. Reprinted, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 1998. ISBN 0-7486-0100-7
Sturluson, Snorri. Heimskringla: History of the Kings of Norway, translated Lee M. Hollander. Reprinted University of Texas Press, Austin, 1992. ISBN 0-292-73061-6
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Ragnvald Øysteinsson Mørejarl (norrønt Rögnvaldr Mœrajarl) (circa 830 - 892) var en jarl på nordvestlandet i Norge på midten av 800-tallet, tilsvarende det området som i dag heter Møre og Romsdal.

Innhold [skjul]
1 Ragnvalds ætt
2 Den rådsnare
3 Orknøyene
4 Innebrent

[rediger] Ragnvalds ætt
Ragnvald var sønn av Øystein Ivarsson som ble kalt for Øystein Glumra. I henhold til Orknøyingenes saga går Ragnvalds ætt tilbake til «Heite Gors sønn var far til Sveide sjøkonge, far til Halvdan den gamle, far til Ivar Opplendingejarl, far til Øystein Glumra, far til Ragnvald jarl den mektige og den rådsnare». Den samme sagaen strekker hans ætt tilbake til en mytologisk opprinnelse til skikkelse ved navn Fornjot fra Finland eller Kvenland.

Snorre Sturlasson skriver i Harald Hårfagres saga i Heimskringla: «Ragnvald Mørejarl var den kjæreste venn kong Harald hadde, og kongen satte ham høyt. Ragnvald jarl var gift med Hild, datter til Rolv Nevja; deres sønner var Rolv og Tore. Ragnvald jarl hadde noen frillesønner også; en het Hallad; en annen Einar og en tredje Rollaug; de var voksne da de ektefødte brødrene deres var barn ennå. Rolv var en stor viking; han var så svær til vekst at ingen hest kunne bære ham, derfor gikk han til fots overalt. Han ble kalt for Gange-Rolv. Han herjet ofte i austerveg.»

Ragnvald var således far til sagnomsuste Gange-Rolf som i sagalitteraturen er blitt identifisert som den nordbo som franskmennene kaller for «Rollo» og som grunnla et jarldømme i Normandie. Dette har imidlertid aldri blitt historisk dokumentert. Via sønnen Torv-Einar ble Ragnvalds ætt giftet inn i det skotske kongehuset.

[rediger] Den rådsnare
Ifølge Snorre satte Harald Hårfagre Ragnvald til å være jarl over Nordmøre og Romsdal (og etter hvert Sunnmøre). Kongen gav ham rett til hjelp av både stormenn og bønder, likeså skip nok til å verge landet for ufred. Ragnvald ble også kalt Ragnvald jarl den mektige eller den rådsnare, og det ble sagt at begge navnene var sanne.

Kongen skal ha betraktet Ragnvald som en av sine viktigste menn og legenden sier at Ragnvald var den som klippet kongens hår da han etter ti år var blitt konge over alle i Norge. Før ble kongen kalt for «Harald Luva» (Lurvehode), men etter at håret var skåret, ga Ragnvald ham et nytt navn, «Hårfagre».

[rediger] Orknøyene
Snorre forteller at Ragnvald sendte sønnen Hallad vestover etter at broren Sigurd var blitt drept, men han ble så plaget av vikinger og ransmenn at han ble lei og kom tilbake. Faren ble da sint og skjelte ham ut for ikke å ligne på forfedrene sine. Den andre sønnen, Einar, lovte da at han kunne reise til Orknøyene og aldri komme tilbake til Norge mer. Ragnvald jarl skal da ha sagt at det var like greit om han aldri kom tilbake igjen: «For jeg har ikke større håp om at dine frender får ære av deg, for alle i morsætta di er trellbårne».

Ragnvald utstyrte sønnen med skip og mannskap og lot ham dro vestover hvor han kom i kamp med vikinger og drepte dem. På Orknøyene ble han kalt for Torv-Einar for han lot skjære torv som brensel for det vokste ikke trær der. Han ble jarl på Orknøyene og en mektig mann, enøyd og stygg å se på.

[rediger] Innebrent
Da Harald Hårfagre tok til å eldes ble sønnene hans Halvdan Hålegg og Gudrød Ljome stadig mer misfornøyd med at de selv ikke hadde noe rike mens faren hadde innsatt jarler rundt om i fylkene. De besluttet da å ikke vente mer på odelen sin. Snorre skriver at «de dro ut med en stor flokk og kom uventet over Ragnvald Mørejarl, kringsatte huset hans og brente ham inne med seksti mann.»

Da kongen hørte dette dro han med en stor hær mot Gudrød som overga seg og ble sendt til Agder. Kongen innsatte så Tore Teiande, sønn av Ragnvald Mørejarl, som ny jarl og giftet ham med datteren Ålov. Kongsdatteren ble siden kalt «Årbot». Halvdan Hålegg dro derimot over til Orknøyene, kom uventet på Torv-Einar som måtte flykte, men samme høst kom Torv-Einar tilbake og overrasket Halvdan og fikk ham drept.

Forgjenger:
- Jarl av Møre
(865–892) Etterfølger:
Tore Teiande

Hentet fra «http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragnvald_M%C3%B8rejarl»

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Rognvald Eysteinsson "the Wise" Earl of More (830-) [Pedigree]

Son of Eystein Glumra Ivarsson Jarl of Hedemarken (810-) and Aseda Rognvaldsdottir (812-)

REF RFC. A Norwegian viking.
Jarl of More
b. ABT 830, Maer, Norway
b. Abt 0857
r. Upland, Denmark
d. 890, Orkney, Orkney Islands, Scotland
d. ABT 890, Maer, Norway

Married first Rognhild (Hildir) Hrolfsdotter (848-892)

Children:

1. Rollo the Dane 1st Duke of Normandy (-927) m(1) Poppa de_Valois Duchess of Norway (872-)

Married second Ermina

Children:

1. Hrollager Rognvaldsson (874-)

Sources:

1. "Royalty for Commoners",
Roderick W. Stuart, 1992, 2nd edition.
This book lists all of the known ancestors of John of Gaunt,
which amounts to most of the Medieval royalty of Europe. Also
see the following article: "A Mediaeval Miscellany:
Commentaries on Roderick W. Stuart's Royalty for Commoners,"
The American Genealogist 69 (April 1994)

2. "Europaische Stammtafeln",
Isenburg.

3. "Plantagenet Ancestry",
Turton.

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Ragnvald I Eysteinsson , 1st Earl of Orkne

B: abt 0825 Maer, Nord Trondelag, Norway
S: Rognvald Mere-Earl and Ragnvald "the wise"
S: abt 0872 as Jarl of More and 1st Earl of Orkney
D: 0894 Orkney Islands, Orkney, Scotland
M: abt 0852
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Eystein Glumra, Jarl of the Upplands, b abt 803, of Norway. The identity of his wife is not known.
Known children of Eystein Glumra were:
•Ragnvald I, the Wise, Jarl of North and South More and of Ramsdal, b abt 832.
•Swanhild b abt 846, of Norway. She md Harald I, "Fairhair, 1st King of Norway, abt 866, son of Halfdan, "the Black, King of Vestfold, and Ragnhild.
Ragnvald I, "the Wise", Jarl of North and South More and of Ramsdal, b abt 832, Norway, d 890. He md Hiltrude abt 850, daughter of Hrolf Nefia. She was b abt 834.
Child of Ragnvald the Wise and Hiltrude was:
Rollo/Robert I of Normandy [a], 1st Duke of Normandy, aka Ganger Rolf, b abt 855, Norway, d abt 927-931, prob Normandy, France. He md Poppa of Bayeux abt 886, daughter of Berenger,Count of Bayeux. She was b abt 876.

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Ragnvald var jarl i Möre, Norge, och är nog inte lika omtalad som flera av sina söner. En son är sannolikt 'Gånge-Rolf', som blev stamfader för hertigar och kungar i Normandie, Frankrike, och det engelska kungahuset samt den som skapade hertigdömet Normandie. En annan son 'Torv-Einar' blev jarl på Orkneyöarna liksom hans broder Hallad. Ragnvald var gift med med Ragnhild Rolfsdotter, men hade också barn med frillan Groa. Ragnvalds syster Svanhild blev gift med Harald 'Hårfager'. Ragnvald (Mörejarl) blev mördad (innebränd) av Harald 'Hårfagers' söner Halvdan 'Hålegg' og Gudröd 'Ljome'.
Jarl, död ca 890. Ragnvald var jarl på Möre. Hans far skall ha varit Öystein 'Glumra'. Han levde på Harald Hårfagers tid, och blev av honom förlänad med Nordmöre, Romsdal og Sundmöre år 865. Han var av sina samtida högt ansedd för sin klokskap och blev kallad 'den mäktige'. Det var han som klippte Haralds hår, som då icke varit klippt på 10 år.

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1) Directory of Royal Genealogical Data, Hull, England

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Ragnvald Øysteinsson Mørejarl (norrønt Rögnvaldr Mœrajarl) (circa 830 - 892) var en jarl på nordvestlandet i Norge på midten av 800-tallet, tilsvarende det området som i dag heter Møre og Romsdal.

Ragnvald var sønn av Øystein Ivarsson som ble kalt for Øystein Glumra. I henhold til Orknøyingenes saga går Ragnvalds ætt tilbake til «Heite Gors sønn var far til Sveide sjøkonge, far til Halvdan den gamle, far til Ivar Opplendingejarl, far til Øystein Glumra, far til Ragnvald jarl den mektige og den rådsnare». Den samme sagaen strekker hans ætt tilbake til en mytologisk opprinnelse til skikkelse ved navn Fornjot fra Finland eller Kvenland.

Snorre Sturlasson skriver i Harald Hårfagres saga i Heimskringla: «Ragnvald Mørejarl var den kjæreste venn kong Harald hadde, og kongen satte ham høyt. Ragnvald jarl var gift med Hild, datter til Rolv Nevja; deres sønner var Rolv og Tore. Ragnvald jarl hadde noen frillesønner også; en het Hallad; en annen Einar og en tredje Rollaug; de var voksne da de ektefødte brødrene deres var barn ennå. Rolv var en stor viking; han var så svær til vekst at ingen hest kunne bære ham, derfor gikk han til fots overalt. Han ble kalt for Gange-Rolv. Han herjet ofte i austerveg.»

Ragnvald var således far til sagnomsuste Gange-Rolf som i sagalitteraturen er blitt identifisert som den nordbo som franskmennene kaller for «Rollo» og som grunnla et jarldømme i Normandie. Dette har imidlertid aldri blitt historisk dokumentert ettersom kildene spriker i alle retninger, en av dem som stiller seg bak de tidligere nevnte tradisjonene er Jón Viðar Sigurðsson i boken Norsk Historie 800 - 1300 (Det Norske Samlaget, 1999). Via sønnen Torv-Einar ble Ragnvalds ætt giftet inn i det skotske kongehuset.

>Den rådsnare
Ifølge Snorre satte Harald Hårfagre Ragnvald til å være jarl over Nordmøre og Romsdal (og etter hvert Sunnmøre). Kongen gav ham rett til hjelp av både stormenn og bønder, likeså skip nok til å verge landet for ufred. Ragnvald ble også kalt Ragnvald jarl den mektige eller den rådsnare, og det ble sagt at begge navnene var sanne.

Kongen skal ha betraktet Ragnvald som en av sine viktigste menn og legenden sier at Ragnvald var den som klippet kongens hår da han etter ti år var blitt konge over alle i Norge. Før ble kongen kalt for «Harald Luva» (Lurvehode), men etter at håret var skåret, ga Ragnvald ham et nytt navn, «Hårfagre».

>Orknøyene
Snorre forteller at Ragnvald sendte sønnen Hallad vestover etter at broren Sigurd var blitt drept, men han ble så plaget av vikinger og ransmenn at han ble lei og kom tilbake. Faren ble da sint og skjelte ham ut for ikke å ligne på forfedrene sine. Den andre sønnen, Einar, lovte da at han kunne reise til Orknøyene og aldri komme tilbake til Norge mer. Ragnvald jarl skal da ha sagt at det var like greit om han aldri kom tilbake igjen: «For jeg har ikke større håp om at dine frender får ære av deg, for alle i morsætta di er trellbårne».

Ragnvald utstyrte sønnen med skip og mannskap og lot ham dro vestover hvor han kom i kamp med vikinger og drepte dem. På Orknøyene ble han kalt for Torv-Einar for han lot skjære torv som brensel for det vokste ikke trær der. Han ble jarl på Orknøyene og en mektig mann, enøyd og stygg å se på.

>Innebrent
Da Harald Hårfagre tok til å eldes ble sønnene hans Halvdan Hålegg og Gudrød Ljome stadig mer misfornøyd med at de selv ikke hadde noe rike mens faren hadde innsatt jarler rundt om i fylkene. De besluttet da å ikke vente mer på odelen sin. Snorre skriver at «de dro ut med en stor flokk og kom uventet over Ragnvald Mørejarl, kringsatte huset hans og brente ham inne med seksti mann.»

Da kongen hørte dette dro han med en stor hær mot Gudrød som overga seg og ble sendt til Agder. Kongen innsatte så Tore Teiande, sønn av Ragnvald Mørejarl, som ny jarl og giftet ham med datteren Ålov. Kongsdatteren ble siden kalt «Årbot». Halvdan Hålegg dro derimot over til Orknøyene, kom uventet på Torv-Einar som måtte flykte, men samme høst kom Torv-Einar tilbake og overrasket Halvdan og fikk ham drept.

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ROGNVALD I ~

Rognvald , The Wise, Jarl (Earl) of More, Norway, the first Jarl of Orkney and a near relative of King Harold Fairhair.

The house of Rognvald was one of the oldest lines of rulers in Norway.
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Rognvald "The Wise" Eysteinsson (son of Eystein Ivarsson) is the founder of the Earldom of Orkney in the Norse Sagas. Three quite different accounts of the creation of the Norse earldom on Orkney and Shetland exist. The best known is that found in the Heimskringla, but other older traditions are found in the Historia Norvegiae and the Fragmentary Annals of Ireland.

The saga accounts are the best known, and the latest, of the three surviving traditions concerning Rognvald and the foundation of the Earldom of Orkney. Recorded in the 13th century, their views are informed by Norwegian politics of the day. Once, historians could write that no-one denied the reality of Harald Fairhair's expeditions to the west recounted in Heimskringla, but this is no longer the case. The Norwegian contest with the Kings of Scots over the Hebrides and the Isle of Man in the middle 13th century underlies the sagas.

In the Heimskringla, Rognvald is Earl of Møre. He accompanies Harald Fairhair on his great expeditions to the west, to Ireland and to Scotland. Here, Rognvald's son Ivarr is killed. In compensation King Harald grants Rognvald Orkney and Shetland. Rognvald himself returns to Norway, giving the northern isles to his brother Sigurd Eysteinsson.

The Heimskringla recounts other tales of Rognvald. It tells how he causes Harald Finehair to be given his byname Fairhair by cutting and dressing his hair, which had been uncut for ten years on account of Harald's vow never to cut it until he was ruler of all Norway, and it makes him the father of Ganger-Hrólf, identified by saga writers with the Rollo (Hrólfr), ancestor of the Dukes of Normandy, who was said to have been established as Count of Rouen by King Charles the Simple in 931.

Earl Rognvald is killed by Harald's son Halfdan Hålegg. Rognvald's death is avenged by his son, Earl Turf-Einar, from whom later Orkney earls claimed descent, who kills Halfdan on North Ronaldsay.
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Ragnvald Øysteinsson Mørejarl (norrønt Rögnvaldr Mœrajarl) (circa 830 - 892) var en jarl på nordvestlandet i Norge på midten av 800-tallet, tilsvarende det området som i dag heter Møre og Romsdal.

Ragnvald var sønn av Øystein Ivarsson som ble kalt for Øystein Glumra. I henhold til Orknøyingenes saga går Ragnvalds ætt tilbake til «Heite Gors sønn var far til Sveide sjøkonge, far til Halvdan den gamle, far til Ivar Opplendingejarl, far til Øystein Glumra, far til Ragnvald jarl den mektige og den rådsnare». Den samme sagaen strekker hans ætt tilbake til en mytologisk opprinnelse til skikkelse ved navn Fornjot fra Finland eller Kvenland.

Snorre Sturlasson skriver i Harald Hårfagres saga i Heimskringla: «Ragnvald Mørejarl var den kjæreste venn kong Harald hadde, og kongen satte ham høyt. Ragnvald jarl var gift med Hild, datter til Rolv Nevja; deres sønner var Rolv og Tore. Ragnvald jarl hadde noen frillesønner også; en het Hallad; en annen Einar og en tredje Rollaug; de var voksne da de ektefødte brødrene deres var barn ennå. Rolv var en stor viking; han var så svær til vekst at ingen hest kunne bære ham, derfor gikk han til fots overalt. Han ble kalt for Gange-Rolv. Han herjet ofte i austerveg.»

Ragnvald var således far til sagnomsuste Gange-Rolf som i sagalitteraturen er blitt identifisert som den nordbo som franskmennene kaller for «Rollo» og som grunnla et jarldømme i Normandie. Dette har imidlertid aldri blitt historisk dokumentert ettersom kildene spriker i alle retninger, en av dem som stiller seg bak de tidligere nevnte tradisjonene er Jón Viðar Sigurðsson i boken Norsk Historie 800 - 1300 (Det Norske Samlaget, 1999). Via sønnen Torv-Einar ble Ragnvalds ætt giftet inn i det skotske kongehuset.

Den rådsnare

Ifølge Snorre satte Harald Hårfagre Ragnvald til å være jarl over Nordmøre og Romsdal (og etter hvert Sunnmøre). Kongen gav ham rett til hjelp av både stormenn og bønder, likeså skip nok til å verge landet for ufred. Ragnvald ble også kalt Ragnvald jarl den mektige eller den rådsnare, og det ble sagt at begge navnene var sanne.

Kongen skal ha betraktet Ragnvald som en av sine viktigste menn og legenden sier at Ragnvald var den som klippet kongens hår da han etter ti år var blitt konge over alle i Norge. Før ble kongen kalt for «Harald Luva» (Lurvehode), men etter at håret var skåret, ga Ragnvald ham et nytt navn, «Hårfagre».

Orknøyene

Snorre forteller at Ragnvald sendte sønnen Hallad vestover etter at broren Sigurd var blitt drept, men han ble så plaget av vikinger og ransmenn at han ble lei og kom tilbake. Faren ble da sint og skjelte ham ut for ikke å ligne på forfedrene sine. Den andre sønnen, Einar, lovte da at han kunne reise til Orknøyene og aldri komme tilbake til Norge mer. Ragnvald jarl skal da ha sagt at det var like greit om han aldri kom tilbake igjen: «For jeg har ikke større håp om at dine frender får ære av deg, for alle i morsætta di er trellbårne».

Ragnvald utstyrte sønnen med skip og mannskap og lot ham dro vestover hvor han kom i kamp med vikinger og drepte dem. På Orknøyene ble han kalt for Torv-Einar for han lot skjære torv som brensel for det vokste ikke trær der. Han ble jarl på Orknøyene og en mektig mann, enøyd og stygg å se på.

Innebrent

Da Harald Hårfagre tok til å eldes ble sønnene hans Halvdan Hålegg og Gudrød Ljome stadig mer misfornøyd med at de selv ikke hadde noe rike mens faren hadde innsatt jarler rundt om i fylkene. De besluttet da å ikke vente mer på odelen sin. Snorre skriver at «de dro ut med en stor flokk og kom uventet over Ragnvald Mørejarl, kringsatte huset hans og brente ham inne med seksti mann.»

Da kongen hørte dette dro han med en stor hær mot Gudrød som overga seg og ble sendt til Agder. Kongen innsatte så Tore Teiande, sønn av Ragnvald Mørejarl, som ny jarl og giftet ham med datteren Ålov. Kongsdatteren ble siden kalt «Årbot». Halvdan Hålegg dro derimot over til Orknøyene, kom uventet på Torv-Einar som måtte flykte, men samme høst kom Torv-Einar tilbake og overrasket Halvdan og fikk ham drept.

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Also known as Count Regnvald ("the Rich") and as "The Wise", Earl of North and South More, of Raumsdale in Norway.{"Royal Ancestors of Magna Charta Barons," Carr P. Collins, Jr., Dallas, 1959, p.201-02, states that he died about 894. (Rogenwald = Regnvald = Rognald)}

Earl of More/Moer in Norway and Jarl of Orkney and Shetland. He had his name
Gallicized to Reginald. He supported King Harold Fairhair in an attempt to
unify Norway.
Norr: Jarl Rognwald (Rogvald, Raonwald, Regvald, Rouis), created Earl of Moer
in 885. Roll: Rognwald, Earl of Maere.
Norr: Jarl Rogwald (Raowald, Regvald, Rouis), Earl of Moer 885. Married
Hilder.
Beyond Rognvald, things get pretty confused. Norr has about 25 generations
going back to Oden. RC doesn't agree. But some RC names coming down from RC's
Odin agree in the upper portion. But the dates are some 250 years different.
RC and Kraentzler agree in taking Rognvald back three more generations.
Russell goes way back to Olaf the Sharp-eyed, King of Rerik.

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Rognvald Eysteinsson
Rognvald "The Wise" Eysteinsson (son of Eystein Ivarsson) is the founder of the Earldom of Orkney in the Norse Sagas. Three quite different accounts of the creation of the Norse earldom on Orkney and Shetland exist. The best known is that found in the Heimskringla, but other older traditions are found in the Historia Norvegiae and the Fragmentary Annals of Ireland.

[edit] Sagas
The saga accounts are the best known, and the latest, of the three surviving traditions concerning Rognvald and the foundation of the Earldom of Orkney. Recorded in the 13th century, their views are informed by Norwegian politics of the day. Once, historians could write that no-one denied the reality of Harald Fairhair's expeditions to the west recounted in Heimskringla, but this is no longer the case. The Norwegian contest with the Kings of Scots over the Hebrides and the Isle of Man in the middle 13th century underlies the sagas.[1]

In the Heimskringla, Rognvald is Earl of Møre. He accompanies Harald Fairhair on his great expeditions to the west, to Ireland and to Scotland. Here, Rognvald's son Ivarr is killed. In compensation King Harald grants Rognvald the Orkneys and Shetlands. Rognvald himself returns to Norway, giving the northern isles to his brother Sigurd Eysteinsson[2]

The Heimskringla recounts other tales of Rognvald. It tells how he causes Harald Finehair to be given his byname Fairhair by cutting and dressing his hair, which had been uncut for ten years on account of Harald's vow never to cut it until he was ruler of all Norway,[3] and it makes him the father of Ganger-Hrólf, identified by saga writers with the Rollo (Hrólfr), ancestor of the Dukes of Normandy, who was said to have been established as Count of Rouen by King Charles the Simple in 931.[4]

Earl Rognvald is killed by Harald's son Halfdan Hålegg. Rognvald's death is avenged by his son, Earl Turf-Einar, from whom later Orkney earls claimed descent, who kills Halfdan on North Ronaldsay.[5]

[edit] Historia Norvegiae
The Historia Norvegiae's account of Rognvald and the foundation of the Orkney earldom is the next oldest, probably dating from the 12th century. This account contains much curious detail on Orkney, including the earliest account of the Picts as small people who hid in the daytime, but it has little to say about Rognvald.

In the days of Harald Fairhair, king of Norway, certain pirates, of the family of the most vigorous prince Ronald [Rognvald], set out with a great fleet, and crossed the Solundic sea..., and subdued the islands to themselves. And being there provided with safe winter seats, they went in summer-time working tyranny upon the English, and the Scots, and sometimes also upon the Irish, so that they took under their rule, from England, Northumbria; from Scotland, Caithness; from Ireland, Dublin, and the other sea-side towns.[6]

This account does not associate Rognvald with the earldom, but instead attributes it to his anonymous sons.

[edit] Fragmentary Annals of Ireland
...for it was not long before this that there had been every war and every trouble in Norway, and this was the source of that war in Norway: two younger sons of Albdan, king of Norway, drove out the eldest son, i.e. Ragnall son of Albdan, for fear that he would seize the kingship of Norway after their father. So Ragnall came with his three sons to the Orkneys. Ragnall stayed there then, with his youngest son.
Fragmentary Annals of Ireland , FA 330. Edited and translated by Joan N. Radnor.
The oldest account of the Rognvald and the earldom of Orkney is that found in the Fragmentary Annals of Ireland. The annals survive only in incomplete copies made by Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh in the 17th century, but the original annals are believed to date from the lifetime of Donnchad mac Gilla Pátraic (died 1039). The annals are known to have had an influence on later writings in Iceland.

The annals make Rognvald the son of "Halfdan, King of Lochlann". This is generally understood to mean Halfdan the Black, which would make the Rognvald of the annals the brother of Harald Finehair. However, the sagas claim that Rognvald's grandfather was named Halfdan.[7]

These events are placed after an account of the devastation of Fortriu, dated to around 866,[8] and the fall of York, reliably dated to late 867. However, such an early date makes it difficult to reconcile the saga claims that Harald Fairhair was involved in Rognvald's conquest of the northern isles.

Harald Finehair's victory in the Battle of Hafrsfjord, which gave him dominion over parts of Norway, is traditionally dated to 872, but was probably later, perhaps as late as 900.[9] What little is known of Scottish events in the period from the Chronicle of the Kings of Alba would correspond equally well with Harald's attacks on Scotland in the reign of Domnall mac Causantín (ruled 889–900).[10] However, this would not correspond with the sequence in the earliest account of the origins of the Orkney earldom, which places this a generation earlier.

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Rognvald "The Wise" Eysteinsson (son of Eystein Ivarsson) is the founder of the Earldom of Orkney in the Norse Sagas. Three quite different accounts of the creation of the Norse earldom on Orkney and Shetland exist. The best known is that found in the Heimskringla, but other older traditions are found in the Historia Norvegiae and the Fragmentary Annals of Ireland.

The saga accounts are the best known, and the latest, of the three surviving traditions concerning Rognvald and the foundation of the Earldom of Orkney. Recorded in the 13th century, their views are informed by Norwegian politics of the day. Once, historians could write that no-one denied the reality of Harald Fairhair's expeditions to the west recounted in Heimskringla, but this is no longer the case. The Norwegian contest with the the Kings of Scots over the Hebrides and the Isle of Man in the middle 13th century underlies the sagas.[1]

In the Heimskringla, Rognvald is Earl of Møre. He accompanies Harald Fairhair on his great expeditions to the west, to Ireland and to Scotland. Here, Rognvald's son Ivarr is killed. In compensation King Harald grants Rognvald the Orkneys and Shetlands. Rognvald himself returns to Norway, giving the northern isles to his brother Sigurd Eysteinsson[2]

The Heimskringla recounts other tales of Rognvald. It tells how he causes Harald Finehair to be given his byname Fairhair by cutting and dressing his hair, which had been uncut for ten years on account of Harald's vow never to cut it until he was ruler of all Norway,[3] and it makes him the father of Ganger-Hrólf, identified by saga writers with the Rollo (Hrólfr), ancestor of the Dukes of Normandy, who was established as Count of Rouen by King Charles the Simple in 931.[4]

Earl Rognvald is killed by Harald's son Halfdan Hålegg. Rognvald's death is avenged by his son, Earl Turf-Einar, from whom later Orkney earls claimed descent, who kills Halfdan on North Ronaldsay.[5]

[edit] Historia Norvegiae
The Historia Norvegiae's account of Rognvald and the foundation of the Orkney earldom is the next oldest, probably dating from the 12th century. This account contains much curious detail on Orkney, including the earliest account of the Picts as small people who hid in the daytime, but it has little to say about Rognvald.

In the days of Harald Fairhair, king of Norway, certain pirates, of the family of the most vigorous prince Ronald [Rognvald], set out with a great fleet, and crossed the Solundic sea..., and subdued the islands to themselves. And being there provided with safe winter seats, they went in summer-time working tyranny upon the English, and the Scots, and sometimes also upon the Irish, so that they took under their rule, from England, Northumbria; from Scotland, Caithness; from Ireland, Dublin, and the other sea-side towns.[6]

This account does not associate Rognvald with the earldom, but instead attributes it to his anonymous sons.

[edit] Fragmentary Annals of Ireland
...for it was not long before this that there had been every war and every trouble in Norway, and this was the source of that war in Norway: two younger sons of Albdan, king of Norway, drove out the eldest son, i.e. Ragnall son of Albdan, for fear that he would seize the kingship of Norway after their father. So Ragnall came with his three sons to the Orkneys. Ragnall stayed there then, with his youngest son.
Fragmentary Annals of Ireland , FA 330. Edited and translated by Joan N. Radnor.
The oldest account of the Rognvald and the earldom of Orkney is that found in the Fragmentary Annals of Ireland. The annals survive only in incomplete copies made by Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh in the 17th century, but the original annals are believed to date from the lifetime of Donnchad mac Gilla Patraic (died 1039). The annals are known to have had been influential in later writings on Iceland.

The annals make Rognvald the son of "Halfdan, King of Lochlann". This is generally understood to mean Halfdan the Black, which would make the Rognvald of the annals the brother of Harald Finehair. However, the sagas claim that Rognvald's grandfather was named Halfdan.[7]

These events are placed after an account of the devastation of Fortriu, dated to around 866,[8] and the fall of York, reliably dated to late 867. However, such an early date makes it difficult to reconcile the saga claims that Harald Fairhair was involved in Rognvald's conquest of the northern isles.

Harald Finehair's victory in the Battle of Hafrsfjord, which gave him dominion over parts of Norway, is traditionally dated to 872, but was probably later, perhaps as late as 900.[9] What little is known of Scottish events in the period from the Chronicle of the Kings of Alba would correspond equally well with Harald's attacks on Scotland in the reign of Domnall mac Causantín (ruled 889–900).[10] However, this would not correspond with the sequence in the earliest account of the origins of the Orkney earldom, which places this a generation earlier.

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Earl of More
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Born: abt 830 Maer, Nord Trondelag, Norway
Died: 890 Orkney Islands, Orkney, Scotland

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Rögnvaldr Eysteinsson, Mørejarl1,2,3
b. circa 830, d. 894
Rögnvaldr Eysteinsson, Mørejarl|b. c 830\nd. 894|p314.htm#i5205|Eysteinn Glumra, Jarl of the Uplanders|b. c 800|p6.htm#i8264|Aseda Rögnvaldsdóttir||p67.htm#i8832|Ivarr O., Jarl of the Uplanders|b. c 760\nd. a 800|p305.htm#i8265|N. N. of Throndheim|b. c 780|p67.htm#i8831|Rögnvaldr H. H. Ó., King of Vestfold||p278.htm#i9457|Thóra Sigurdsdóttir||p111.htm#i13338|
FatherEysteinn Glumra, Jarl of the Uplanders4,5 b. circa 800
MotherAseda Rögnvaldsdóttir
Also called Jarl Ragnald I of Orkney.6 Rögnvaldr Eysteinsson, Mørejarl was King Harald Fairhair's dearest friend, and the king had the greatest regard for him.4 Also called Jarl Rognvaldr of Møre.7 He was per late Icelandic sources, for which there is no good reason to believe that these generations are historical, a son of Eysteinn Glumra, son of Ívarr, son of Hálfdan the Old.7 Rögnvaldr Eysteinsson, Mørejarl also went by the name of Ragnvald "the Wise".4,5 He associated with unknown , a concubine.8 Rögnvaldr Eysteinsson, Mørejarl was born circa 830 at Maer, Norway. He was the son of Eysteinn Glumra, Jarl of the Uplanders and Aseda Rögnvaldsdóttir.4,5 Rögnvaldr Eysteinsson, Mørejarl became one of Harald Fairhair's men the summer before the battle at Solskel circa August 866.4 He was a witness where Haraldr Hårfager Hálfdanarson, King of Norway laid claim to both the More and Raumsdal districts after defeating their kings in battle in 867.4 Rögnvaldr Eysteinsson, Mørejarl was set as chief over the two districts, North More and Raumsdal, by Harald Fairhair, who strengthened him both with men of might and bondes, and gave him the help of ships to defend the coast against enemies in 867.4 He was given South Möre to govern as well, following the defeat of King Arnvid by Harald Hairfair, but the Firdafylke still remained in the possession of King Ardbjorns brother Vemund in 868.4 He was made Jarl of North and South Möre and of Raumsdal by King Harald Haarfagri after his victory of Solskiel over Hunthiof, King of Möre, and Nokve, King of Raumsdal circa 869.5 Jarl of Raumsdal at Norway in 869.5 Jarl of North and South Möre at Norway in 869.5 He was went over Eid, and southwards to the Fjord district. There he heard news of King Vemund, and came by night to a place called Naustdal, where King Vemund was living in guest-quarters. Earl Ragnvald surrounded the house in which they were quartered, and burnt the king in it, together with ninety men, and then took all the ships Vemund had, and all the goods he could get hold of, in 869 at the winter of.4 He married Ragnhild Hrolfsdotter of Norway, daughter of Hrólfr Nefja of Norway, before 870.8 Rögnvaldr Eysteinsson, Mørejarl married Ermina , a concubine before 870; A "more Danico" or "Danish wife."9,3 Jarl of Orkney between 874 and 875.10 Rögnvaldr Eysteinsson, Mørejarl was the predecessor of Orknøyjarl Sigurdr Eysteinsson; Jarl of Orkney.10 Rögnvaldr Eysteinsson, Mørejarl was given the Orkney and Shetland isles in compensation for the loss of his son Ivar in the wars of Harald Fairhair against the viking raiders in the western lands in 888.4,11 He died in 894. He was killed by two jealous sons of Harlald Fairhair. Halfdan Haleg and Gudrod Ljome set off one spring with a great force, and came suddenly upon Earl Ragnvald, earl of More, and surrounded the house in which he was, and burnt him and sixty men in it.4
Family 1
Ragnhild Hrolfsdotter of Norway b. 822
Children

* Thórir "the Silent" Rögnvaldsson, Mørejarl+ 4
* Ivarr Rögnvaldsson 4
* Göngu-Hrólf Rögnvaldsson b. c 86012,4

Family 2
Ermina , a concubine b. circa 850
Child

* Hrollaugr Rögnvaldsson+ b. c 87013,4

Family 3
unknown , a concubine
Child

* Torf-Einarr Rögnvaldsson, Orknøyjarl+ b. c 870, d. c 9204

Citations

1. [S204] Roderick W. Stuart, RfC, 166-36.
2. [S206] With additions and corrections by Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr. and assisted by David Faris Frederick Lewis Weis, Weis: AR 7th ed., 121E-17.
3. [S204] Roderick W. Stuart, RfC, 295-39.
4. [S449] Circa 1225 A.D. Snorri Sturluson, Chronicle of the Kings of Norway, Harald Harfager's Saga.
5. [S215] Revised by others later George Edward Cokayne CP, X:App.A:3.
6. [S592] Mike Ashley, Ashley, M., Chart 27.
7. [S1043] Henry Project, online http://sbaldw.home.mindspring.com/hproject/henry.htm
8. [S449] Circa 1225 A.D. Snorri Sturluson, Chronicle of the Kings of Norway.
9. [S209] Somerset Herald J.R. Planché, Planché, J.R..
10. [S592] Mike Ashley, Ashley, M., [NB].
11. [S603] C.B., LL.D., Ulster King of Arms Sir Bernard Burke, B:xP, pg. 493, 888.
12. [S482] Norman Davies, Davies, N., p. 1106.
13. [S204] Roderick W. Stuart, RfC, 295-38.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragnvald_Eysteinsson
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Earl of More and Romsdal
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Source: Adrienne Anderson chart of Scandinavian Norman Descent of Hamblins
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Según los relatos legendarios de Escandinavia, el primer varón conocido del linaje normando es Skalj Froteenson de Värmland, que nació hacia el año 420. Después de él se suceden los señores de Varmland hasta un hijo de Olav I Ingjarldsson Tretelgja de Varmland, llamado Halvdan I Olavsson Hvitbein de Vestfold (c.715). Siguen los señores de Vestfold hasta Halvdan II Oysteinsson de Vestfold, que tiene un hijo llamado Ivar Oplaendinge Halvdansson de Hedmark (c.780). Continúan los señores de Hedmark hasta Ragnvald Eysteinsson "el Sabio" de Heidmark, que es padre de Rollo ó Roberto I, primer duque de de Normandía.

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From the English Wikipedia page on Rognvald Eysteinsson:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rognvald_Eysteinsson

Rognvald "The Wise" Eysteinsson (son of Eystein Ivarsson) is the founder of the Earldom of Orkney in the Norse Sagas.

Three quite different accounts of the creation of the Norse earldom on Orkney and Shetland exist. The best known is that found in the Heimskringla, but other older traditions are found in the Historia Norvegiae and the Fragmentary Annals of Ireland.

Sagas

The saga accounts are the best known, and the latest, of the three surviving traditions concerning Rognvald and the foundation of the Earldom of Orkney. Recorded in the 13th century, their views are informed by Norwegian politics of the day. Once, historians could write that no-one denied the reality of Harald Fairhair's expeditions to the west recounted in Heimskringla, but this is no longer the case.

The Norwegian contest with the Kings of Scots over the Hebrides and the Isle of Man in the middle 13th century underlies the sagas.[1]

In the Heimskringla, Rognvald is Earl of Møre. He accompanies Harald Fairhair on his great expeditions to the west, to Ireland and to Scotland. Here, Rognvald's son Ivarr is killed.

In compensation King Harald grants Rognvald Orkney and Shetland. Rognvald himself returns to Norway, giving the northern isles to his brother Sigurd Eysteinsson.[2]

The Heimskringla recounts other tales of Rognvald. It tells how he causes Harald Finehair to be given his byname Fairhair by cutting and dressing his hair, which had been uncut for ten years on account of Harald's vow never to cut it until he was ruler of all Norway,[3] and it makes him the father of Ganger-Hrólf, identified by saga writers with the Rollo (Hrólfr), ancestor of the Dukes of Normandy, who was said to have been established as Count of Rouen by King Charles the Simple in 931.[4]

Earl Rognvald is killed by Harald's son Halfdan Hålegg. Rognvald's death is avenged by his son, Earl Turf-Einar, from whom later Orkney earls claimed descent, who kills Halfdan on North Ronaldsay.[5]

Historia Norvegiae

The Historia Norvegiae's account of Rognvald and the foundation of the Orkney earldom is the next oldest, probably dating from the 12th century. This account contains much curious detail on Orkney, including the earliest account of the Picts as small people who hid in the daytime, but it has little to say about Rognvald.

In the days of Harald Fairhair, king of Norway, certain pirates, of the family of the most vigorous prince Ronald [Rognvald], set out with a great fleet, and crossed the Solundic sea..., and subdued the islands to themselves. And being there provided with safe winter seats, they went in summer-time working tyranny upon the English, and the Scots, and sometimes also upon the Irish, so that they took under their rule, from England, Northumbria; from Scotland, Caithness; from Ireland, Dublin, and the other sea-side towns.[6]

This account does not associate Rognvald with the earldom, but instead attributes it to his anonymous kinfolk.

Fragmentary Annals of Ireland

...for it was not long before this that there had been every war and every trouble in Norway, and this was the source of that war in Norway: two younger sons of Albdan, king of Norway, drove out the eldest son, i.e. Ragnall son of Albdan, for fear that he would seize the kingship of Norway after their father. So Ragnall came with his three sons to the Orkney Islands. Ragnall stayed there then, with his youngest son.
Fragmentary Annals of Ireland , FA 330. Edited and translated by Joan N. Radnor.

The oldest account of the Rognvald and the earldom of Orkney is that found in the Fragmentary Annals of Ireland. The annals survive only in incomplete copies made by Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh in the 17th century, but the original annals are believed to date from the lifetime of Donnchad mac Gilla Pátraic (died 1039). The annals are known to have had an influence on later writings in Iceland.

The annals make Rognvald the son of "Halfdan, King of Lochlann." This is generally understood to mean Halfdan the Black, which would make the Rognvald of the annals the brother of Harald Finehair. However, the sagas claim that Rognvald's grandfather was named Halfdan.[7]

These events are placed after an account of the devastation of Fortriu, dated to around 866,[8] and the fall of York, reliably dated to late 867. However, such an early date makes it difficult to reconcile the saga claims that Harald Fairhair was involved in Rognvald's conquest of the northern isles.

Harald Finehair's victory in the Battle of Hafrsfjord, which gave him dominion over parts of Norway, is traditionally dated to 872, but was probably later, perhaps as late as 900.[9] What little is known of Scottish events in the period from the Chronicle of the Kings of Alba would correspond equally well with Harald's attacks on Scotland in the reign of Domnall mac Causantín (ruled 889–900).[10] However, this would not correspond with the sequence in the earliest account of the origins of the Orkney earldom, which places this a generation earlier.

Orkney inheritance

Rognvald having given his earldom to Sigurd, according to the Orkneyinga Saga, the latter died in a curious fashion after a battle with Máel Brigte of Moray. Sigurd's son Gurthorm ruled for a single winter after this and died childless.[11][12]

In addition to Hrólfr/Rollo and Turf-Einar, Rognvald had a third son called Hallad who then inherited the title. However, unable to constrain Danish raids on Orkney, he gave up the earldom and returned to Norway, which "everyone thought was a huge joke."[13]

The predations of the Danish pirates led to Rognvald flying into a rage and summoning his sons Thorir and Hrolluag. He predicted that Thorir's path would keep him in Norway and that Hrolluag was destined seek his fortune in Iceland. Turf-Einar, the youngest, then came forward and offered to go to the islands. Rognvald said: "Considering the kind of mother you have, slave-born on each side of her family, you are not likely to make much of a ruler. But I agree, the sooner you leave and the later you return the happier I'll be."[14]

His father's misgivings notwithstanding, Torf-Einarr succeeded in defeating the Danes and founded a dynasty which retained control of the islands for centuries after his death.[15]

Notes

1.^ Crawford, pp. 52–53.
2.^ Anderson, pp. 332–334; Saga of Harald Fairhair, c. 22.
3.^ Saga of Harald Fairhair, cc. 4 & 23.
4.^ Saga of Harald Fairhair, c. 24.
5.^ Saga of Harald Fairhair, cc. 29–30.
6.^ Anderson, pp. 330–331.
7.^ Crawford, pp. 53–54.
8.^ Anderson, p. 296; Annals of Ulster, s.a. 865.
9.^ Crawford, p. 55–56.
10.^ Anderson, pp. 395–396.
11.^ Thomson (2008) p. 28.
12.^ Pálsson and Edwards (1981) "A poisoned tooth". pp. 27-28.
13.^ Thomson (2008) p. 30 quoting chapter 5 of the Orkneyinga Saga.
14.^ Pálsson and Edwards (1981) "Forecasts". pp. 28-29.
15.^ Thomson (2008) p. 29.

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Crawford, Barbara. Scandinavian Scotland. Leicester University Press, Leicester, 1987. ISBN 0-7185-1282-0

Ó Corrain, Donnchad. "The Vikings in Scotland and Ireland in the Ninth Century", Peritia, vol 12, pp296–339.

Pálsson, Hermann and Edwards, Paul Geoffrey (1981). Orkneyinga Saga: The History of the Earls of Orkney. Penguin Classics. ISBN 0140443835

Radner, Joan N. (editor and translator) (1978). "Fragmentary Annals of Ireland". CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts. University College Cork. http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T100017/. Retrieved 2007-03-10.

Radner, Joan N. "Writing history: Early Irish historiography and the significance of form", Celtica, volume 23, pp. 312–325

Smyth, Alfred P. Warlords and Holy Men: Scotland AD 80–1000. Reprinted, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 1998. ISBN 0-7486-0100-7

Sturluson, Snorri. Heimskringla: History of the Kings of Norway, translated Lee M. Hollander. Reprinted University of Texas Press, Austin, 1992. ISBN 0-292-73061-6

Thomson, William P. L. (2008) The New History of Orkney, Edinburgh, Birlinn. ISBN 9781841586960

From the French Wikipedia page on Ragnvald Eysteinsson (wholly without sources):
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragnvald_Eysteinsson

Ragnvald Eysteinsson, dit le Sage, jarl de Møre, né en 840 dans l'Uppland en Suède, mort en 890 aux Orcades. Il est avec son épouse Ragnhilde Hrolfsson, le père de Rollon de Normandie.

In English:

Ragnvald Eysteinsson "the Wise", Jarl of More, was born in 840 in the Uppland of Sweden, and died in 890 in the Orkney Islands. He and his wife Ragnhild Hrolfsson were the parents of Rollo of Normandy.
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Also known as Count Regnvald ("the Rich") and as "The Wise", Earl of North and South More, of Raumsdale in Norway.{"Royal Ancestors of Magna Charta Barons," Carr P. Collins, Jr., Dallas, 1959, p.201-02, states that he died about 894. (Rogenwald = Regnvald = Rognald)}

Earl of More/Moer in Norway and Jarl of Orkney and Shetland. He had his name
Gallicized to Reginald. He supported King Harold Fairhair in an attempt to
unify Norway.
Norr: Jarl Rognwald (Rogvald, Raonwald, Regvald, Rouis), created Earl of Moer
in 885. Roll: Rognwald, Earl of Maere.
Norr: Jarl Rogwald (Raowald, Regvald, Rouis), Earl of Moer 885. Married
Hilder.
Beyond Rognvald, things get pretty confused. Norr has about 25 generations
going back to Oden. RC doesn't agree. But some RC names coming down from RC's
Odin agree in the upper portion. But the dates are some 250 years different.
RC and Kraentzler agree in taking Rognvald back three more generations.
Russell goes way back to Olaf the Sharp-eyed, King of Rerik.
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Rognvald "The Wise" Eysteinsson (son of Eystein Ivarsson) is the founder of the Earldom of Orkney in the Norse Sagas. Three quite different accounts of the creation of the Norse earldom on Orkney and Shetland exist. The best known is that found in the Heimskringla, but other older traditions are found in the Historia Norvegiae and the Fragmentary Annals of Ireland.

Sagas
The saga accounts are the best known, and the latest, of the three surviving traditions concerning Rognvald and the foundation of the Earldom of Orkney. Recorded in the 13th century, their views are informed by Norwegian politics of the day. Once, historians could write that no-one denied the reality of Harald Fairhair's expeditions to the west recounted in Heimskringla, but this is no longer the case. The Norwegian contest with the Kings of Scots over the Hebrides and the Isle of Man in the middle 13th century underlies the sagas.
In the Heimskringla, Rognvald is Earl of Møre. He accompanies Harald Fairhair on his great expeditions to the west, to Ireland and to Scotland. Here, Rognvald's son Ivarr is killed. In compensation King Harald grants Rognvald the Orkneys and Shetlands. Rognvald himself returns to Norway, giving the northern isles to his brother Sigurd Eysteinsson.
The Heimskringla recounts other tales of Rognvald. It tells how he causes Harald Finehair to be given his byname Fairhair by cutting and dressing his hair, which had been uncut for ten years on account of Harald's vow never to cut it until he was ruler of all Norway,[3] and it makes him the father of Ganger-Hrólf, identified by saga writers with the Rollo (Hrólfr), ancestor of the Dukes of Normandy, who was said to have been established as Count of Rouen by King Charles the Simple in 931.
Earl Rognvald is killed by Harald's son Halfdan Hålegg. Rognvald's death is avenged by his son, Earl Turf-Einar, from whom later Orkney earls claimed descent, who kills Halfdan on North Ronaldsay.

Historia Norvegiae
The Historia Norvegiae's account of Rognvald and the foundation of the Orkney earldom is the next oldest, probably dating from the 12th century. This account contains much curious detail on Orkney, including the earliest account of the Picts as small people who hid in the daytime, but it has little to say about Rognvald.
In the days of Harald Fairhair, king of Norway, certain pirates, of the family of the most vigorous prince Ronald [Rognvald], set out with a great fleet, and crossed the Solundic sea..., and subdued the islands to themselves. And being there provided with safe winter seats, they went in summer-time working tyranny upon the English, and the Scots, and sometimes also upon the Irish, so that they took under their rule, from England, Northumbria; from Scotland, Caithness; from Ireland, Dublin, and the other sea-side towns.
This account does not associate Rognvald with the earldom, but instead attributes it to his anonymous sons.

Fragmentary Annals of Ireland
...for it was not long before this that there had been every war and every trouble in Norway, and this was the source of that war in Norway: two younger sons of Albdan, king of Norway, drove out the eldest son, i.e. Ragnall son of Albdan, for fear that he would seize the kingship of Norway after their father. So Ragnall came with his three sons to the Orkneys. Ragnall stayed there then, with his youngest son.
Fragmentary Annals of Ireland , FA 330. Edited and translated by Joan N. Radnor.
The oldest account of the Rognvald and the earldom of Orkney is that found in the Fragmentary Annals of Ireland. The annals survive only in incomplete copies made by Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh in the 17th century, but the original annals are believed to date from the lifetime of Donnchad mac Gilla Patráic (died 1039). The annals are known to have had an influence on later writings in Iceland.
The annals make Rognvald the son of "Halfdan, King of Lochlann". This is generally understood to mean Halfdan the Black, which would make the Rognvald of the annals the brother of Harald Finehair. However, the sagas claim that Rognvald's grandfather was named Halfdan.
These events are placed after an account of the devastation of Fortriu, dated to around 866, and the fall of York, reliably dated to late 867. However, such an early date makes it difficult to reconcile the saga claims that Harald Fairhair was involved in Rognvald's conquest of the northern isles.
Harald Finehair's victory in the Battle of Hafrsfjord, which gave him dominion over parts of Norway, is traditionally dated to 872, but was probably later, perhaps as late as 900.[9] What little is known of Scottish events in the period from the Chronicle of the Kings of Alba would correspond equally well with Harald's attacks on Scotland in the reign of Domnall mac Causantín (ruled 889–900).[10] However, this would not correspond with the sequence in the earliest account of the origins of the Orkney earldom, which places this a generation earlier.
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*Rognvald Eysteinsson "The Wise" Jarl of More and Romsdal
born about 0830 Maer, Nord Trondelag, Norway
died 0890/94 Orkney, Orkney Islands, Scotland

father:
*Eystein "Glumra" Jarl of More
born about 0800 Maer, Nord Trondelag, Norway

mother:
*Ascrida (Aseda) Rognvaldsdatter Countess of Oppland
born about 0804 Maer, Nord Trondelag, Norway
married about 0846 Maer, Nord Trondelag, Norway

siblings:
*Svanhild Eysteinsdatter born about 0850 Maer, Nord Trondelag, Norway
*Malahule (Haldrick) (Malahulc) (Tresney) Eysteinsson born about 0845 Maer, Nord Trondelag, Norway
Sigurd I "the Mighty" Eysteinsson born about 0832 Maer, Nord Trondelag, Norway
died 0874 Orkney, Orkney Islands, Scotland buried Ekkialsbakki, Sydero, Dornoch Firth

spouse:
*Ragnhild (Hilda) Hrolfsdatter Countess of More
born about 0848 Orkney, Orkney Islands, Scotland
married about 0867 Maer, Nord Trondelag, Norway

children:
Thoric "The Silent" Ragnvaldsson Count of Maer
*Rollo (Hrolf the Ganger) Duke of Normandy
born about 0846 Maer, Nord-Trondelag, Norway
died about 0931 Notre Dame, Rouen, Nornandie, Neustria
buried Notre Dame, Rouen, Nornandie, Neustria
*Einar "Turf" Rognvaldsson Jarl of Orkney
born about 0852 Maer, More og Romsdal, Norway
died 0910 Orkney, Orkney Islands, Scotland
*Hrollager (Hrollaug) of Iceland Ragnvaldsson
born about 0854 Maer, Norway
*Turstan Rognvaldsson of Bastenburg
Hallad Ragnvaldsson
Ivar Ragnvaldsson
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Ragnvald "The Wise" Eysteinsson (son of Eystein Ivarsson) is the founder of the Earldom of Orkney in the Norse Sagas. Three quite different accounts of the creation of the Norse earldom on Orkney and Shetland exist. The best known is that found in the Heimskringla, but other older traditions are found in the Historia Norvegiae and the Fragmentary Annals of Ireland.
Sagas

The saga accounts are the best known, and the latest, of the three surviving traditions concerning Rognvald and the foundation of the Earldom of Orkney. Recorded in the 13th century, their views are informed by Norwegian politics of the day. Once, historians could write that no-one denied the reality of Harald Fairhair's expeditions to the west recounted in Heimskringla, but this is no longer the case. The Norwegian contest with the Kings of Scots over the Hebrides and the Isle of Man in the middle 13th century underlies the sagas.

In the Heimskringla, Ragnvald is Earl of Møre. He accompanies Harald Fairhair on his great expeditions to the west, to Ireland and to Scotland. Here, Ragnvald's son Ivarr is killed. In compensation King Harald grants Rognvald Orkney and Shetland. Rognvald himself returns to Norway, giving the northern isles to his brother Sigurd Eysteinsson.

The Heimskringla recounts other tales of Ragnvald. It tells how he causes Harald Finehair to be given his byname Fairhair by cutting and dressing his hair, which had been uncut for ten years on account of Harald's vow never to cut it until he was ruler of all Norway, and it makes him the father of Ganger-Hrólf, identified by saga writers with the Rollo (Hrólfr), ancestor of the Dukes of Normandy, who was said to have been established as Count of Rouen by King Charles the Simple in 931.

Earl Ragnvald is killed by Harald's son Halfdan Hålegg. Ragnvald's death is avenged by his son, Earl Turf-Einar, from whom later Orkney earls claimed descent, who kills Halfdan on North Ronaldsay.
Historia Norvegiae

The Historia Norvegiae's account of Ragnvald and the foundation of the Orkney earldom is the next oldest, probably dating from the 12th century. This account contains much curious detail on Orkney, including the earliest account of the Picts as small people who hid in the daytime, but it has little to say about Rognvald.

In the days of Harald Fairhair, king of Norway, certain pirates, of the family of the most vigorous prince Ronald [Rognvald], set out with a great fleet, and crossed the Solundic sea..., and subdued the islands to themselves. And being there provided with safe winter seats, they went in summer-time working tyranny upon the English, and the Scots, and sometimes also upon the Irish, so that they took under their rule, from England, Northumbria; from Scotland, Caithness; from Ireland, Dublin, and the other sea-side towns.

This account does not associate Ragnvald with the earldom, but instead attributes it to his anonymous kinfolk.
Fragmentary Annals of Ireland
...for it was not long before this that there had been every war and every trouble in Norway, and this was the source of that war in Norway: two younger sons of Albdan, king of Norway, drove out the eldest son, i.e. Ragnall son of Albdan, for fear that he would seize the kingship of Norway after their father. So Ragnall came with his three sons to the Orkneys. Ragnall stayed there then, with his youngest son.
Fragmentary Annals of Ireland , FA 330. Edited and translated by Joan N. Radnor.

The oldest account of the Ragnvald and the earldom of Orkney is that found in the Fragmentary Annals of Ireland. The annals survive only in incomplete copies made by Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh in the 17th century, but the original annals are believed to date from the lifetime of Donnchad mac Gilla Pátraic (died 1039). The annals are known to have had an influence on later writings in Iceland.

The annals make Rognvald the son of "Halfdan, King of Lochlann." This is generally understood to mean Halfdan the Black, which would make the Rognvald of the annals the brother of Harald Finehair. However, the sagas claim that Rognvald's grandfather was named Halfdan.

These events are placed after an account of the devastation of Fortriu, dated to around 866, and the fall of York, reliably dated to late 867. However, such an early date makes it difficult to reconcile the saga claims that Harald Fairhair was involved in Rognvald's conquest of the northern isles.

Harald Finehair's victory in the Battle of Hafrsfjord, which gave him dominion over parts of Norway, is traditionally dated to 872, but was probably later, perhaps as late as 900. What little is known of Scottish events in the period from the Chronicle of the Kings of Alba would correspond equally well with Harald's attacks on Scotland in the reign of Domnall mac Causantín (ruled 889–900). However, this would not correspond with the sequence in the earliest account of the origins of the Orkney earldom, which places this a generation earlier.
Orkney inheritance

Ragnvald having given his earldom to Sigurd, according to the Orkneyinga Saga, the latter died in a curious fashion after a battle with Máel Brigte of Moray. Sigurd's son Gurthorm ruled for a single winter after this and died childless.

In addition to Hrólfr/Rollo and Turf-Einar, Ragnvald had a third son called Hallad who then inherited the title. However, unable to constrain Danish raids on Orkney, he gave up the earldom and returned to Norway, which "everyone thought was a huge joke." The predations of the Danish pirates led to Ragnvald flying into a rage and summoning his sons Thorir and Hrolluag. He predicted that Thorir's path would keep him in Norway and that Hrolluag was destined seek his fortune in Iceland. Turf-Einar, the youngest, then came forward and offered to go to the islands. Ragnvald said: "Considering the kind of mother you have, slave-born on each side of her family, you are not likely to make much of a ruler. But I agree, the sooner you leave and the later you return the happier I'll be." His father's misgivings notwithstanding, Torf-Einarr succeeded in defeating the Danes and founded a dynasty which retained control of the islands for centuries after his death.
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In 890 he was burned alive with his bodyguards in his hall.

He had 3 sons with his Mistress:

Hallad Rognavaldsson, Jarl of Orkney, born abt 857 in Maer, Nord-Trondelag, Norway,
died about 893 in Norway (abandoned his Jarldom of Orkney)

Einar I "Turf" Rognavaldsson, Jarl of Orkney, born about 858 in Maer, Nord-Trondelag, Norway, died about 920 in Orkney Islands, Scotland

Hrollaug (Hrollager) Rognavaldsson, of Eyiafiordborn about 859 in Maer, Nord-Trondelag, Norway, died in Eyiafiord, Iceland
Married Emina, born about 862 in Maer, Nord-Trondelag, Norway
Had a son, Rollo (Thurstan) of More, born about 885 in Maer, Nord-Trondelag, Norway
He married Gerlotte of Blois

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NORSE PREDECESSORS of the EARLS of ORKNEY - subject to King of Norway until after 1379

RAGNVALD I the Wise, called the Morejarl, son of Eystein Glumra, Jarl of the Uplanders in Norway, grandson of Ivar son of Halfdan the Old, was made Jarl of North and South More and of Raumsdal in Norway by King Harald Haarfagri after his victory of Solskiel circa 869 over Hunthiof, King of More, and Nokve, King of Raumsdal. In that year he surprised Vermund, King of Fiordeland, at Notsdal and burned him in his hall with 90 men. Later King Harald married his sister Swanhilda and had issue, In (?) 874 King Harald made an expedition to the Nordreys (Orkney and Shetland) to enforce his authority over those who had fled thither in order to escape from it in Norway. Either during this expedition or previously at the battle of Hafrsfiord circa 872 Ivar, the eldest son of Ragnvald, was killed and the King gave the Orkneys and Shetlands to Ragnvald as compensation. When the King started home for Norway, (?) Spring 875, Ragnvald, who went with him, gave the islands to his brother Sigurd, and the King confirmed the transfer, Ragnvald was surprised in his hall and burned alive circa 894 by Halfdan Haaleg and Gudred Liomi, King Harald's sons by Snaefrid, dau. of Swasi.

By his wife Ragnhild, dau. of Hrolf Nefia, he had 3 sons: Ivar, who was killed in battle ut supra, Rolf the Ganger, afterwards 1st Duke of Normandy, and Thori the Silent, who was made Jarl of More in succession to his father by King Harald Haarfagri circa 894, after Gudred Liomi, who had seized More on the death of Jarl Ragnvald, had been dispossessed by the King. By an earlier union with a nameless girl, whose kindred were all slave-born, Ragnvald had 3 sons, described as bastards: Hallad, 4th Earl of Orkney, Turf-Einar, 5th Earl of Orkney, and Hrollaug, an unwarlike man, who settled at Eyiafiord in Iceland and had issue. [Complete Peerage, X:Appendix A:3-4]

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Rogenwald was a supporter of King Harold Harfagr, and assisted him in obtaining the mastery over the other independent Norwegian chiefs, and in establishing himself as King of all Norway. He was Earl of More and Raumdahl in Norway, and in 888, he obtained from King Harold a grant of the Orkney and Shetland islands. One of his sons, Rollo, conquered Neustria, founded the line of sovereign Dukes of Normandy, and was ancestor to William the Conqueror. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 492, Sinclair, Earl of Orkney]
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Glumra, Eystein the Noisy, Jarl of the Uplanders
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Rognvald "The Wise" Eysteinsson (son of Eystein Ivarsson) is the founder of the Earldom of Orkney in the Norse Sagas. Three quite different accounts of the creation of the Norse earldom on Orkney and Shetland exist. The best known is that found in the Heimskringla, but other older traditions are found in the Historia Norvegiae and the Fragmentary Annals of Ireland.
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Earl of the North and South More.

He cut the 10 years' unshorn hair of the king Harold I of Norway turning him from "Luva" (the lousy) into "Haarfager" (fair haired). King Harold granted Ragnvald the Orkney and Shetland Islands in 888. Burnt to death in his house circa 894.
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Ragnald I was burned alive with his bodygards in his hall.
Earl of Sunnmore, Nordmore and Romsdal

Ragnvald was well known historically as the founder of Normandy. Earl of Sunnmore, Nordmore aand Romsdal, was born in Maer, Nord-Trondelag, Norway and died at the Orkney Islands. He ws the son of Eystein Glumra the noisy, Earl of Oppland and grandson of Halfdan the old. His second wife was Ragnhild Hrolfsdottir, daaughter of Hrolfrr Nefjaa. Ragnvald was the father of Hrolf Ganger, the founder of Normandy. He was also the father of Turf-Einar, the ancestor of the jarls of Orkney.

He was the direct ancestor to William I of England, Edward II of England, James I of England and therefore, Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. He is there fore the ancestor of most of the royal families of europe.
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Also called Jarl Ragnald I of Orkney [Mike Ashley, The Mammoth Book of British Kings and Queens (7 Kensington Road Church Court, London W8 4SP: Robinson Publishing Ltd., 1998), Chart 27].

Rögnvaldr Eysteinsson, Mørejarl was King Harald Fairhair's dearest friend, and the king had the greatest regard for him[Snorri Sturluson, Heimskringla, or The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway (London: Norroena Society, 1907), Harald Harfager's Saga].

Also called Jarl Rognvaldr of Møre.

He was per late Icelandic sources, for which there is no good reason to believe that these generations are historical, a son of Eysteinn Glumra, son of Ívarr, son of Hálfdan the Old.6 Rögnvaldr Eysteinsson, Mørejarl also went by the name of Ragnvald "the Wise." He was born circa 830 in Maer, Norway. He was the son of Jarl of the Uplanders Eysteinn Glumra Ivarsson and Aseda Rögnvaldsdóttir[Circa 1225 A.D. Snorri Sturluson, Heimskringla, or The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway (London: Norroena Society, 1907), Harald Harfager's Saga George Edward Cokayne The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct, or Dormant, I-XIII (in 6) (Thrupp, Stroud, Gloucestershire, GL5 2BU: Sutton Publishing Limited, 2000), X:App.A:3].

He became one of Harald Fairhair's men the summer before the battle at Solskel circa August 866.
He was set as chief over the two districts, North More and Raumsdal, by Harald Fairhair, who strengthened him both with men of might and bondes, and gave him the help of ships to defend the coast against enemies in 867.
He was given South Möre to govern as well, following the defeat of King Arnvid by Harald Hairfair, but the Firdafylke still remained in the possession of King Ardbjorns brother Vemund in 868 [Circa 1225 A.D. Snorri Sturluson, Heimskringla, or The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway (London: Norroena Society, 1907)].

He was made Jarl of North and South Möre and of Raumsdal by King Harald Haarfagri after his victory of Solskiel over Hunthiof, King of Möre, and Nokve, King of Raumsdal circa 869. Jarl of North and South Möre, Norway, 869. Jarl of Raumsdal, Norway, 869[George Edward Cokayne The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct, or Dormant, I-XIII (in 6) (Thrupp, Stroud, Gloucestershire, GL5 2BU: Sutton Publishing Limited, 2000), X:App.A:3].

He was went over Eid, and southwards to the Fjord district. There he heard news of King Vemund, and came by night to a place called Naustdal, where King Vemund was living in guest-quarters. Earl Ragnvald surrounded the house in which they were quartered, and burnt the king in it, together with ninety men, and then took all the ships Vemund had, and all the goods he could get hold of, in 869 in the winter of.
He married Ragnhild Hrolfsdotter of Norway, daughter of Hrólfr Nefja of Norway, before 870[Circa 1225 A.D. Snorri Sturluson, Heimskringla, or The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway (London: Norroena Society, 1907), Harald Harfager's Saga].

He married Ermina , a concubine before 870; A "more Danico" or "Danish wife."[Somerset Herald J.R. Planché, The Conqueror and His Companions (London, England: Tinsley Brothers, 1874) and Roderick W. Stuart, Royalty for Commoners: The Complete Lineage of John of Gaunt, Son of Edward III, Kings of England, and Queen Philippa (.: ., 3rd Ed., 1998), 295-39].

Jarl of Orkney, between 874 and 875 [Mike Ashley, The Mammoth Book of British Kings and Queens (7 Kensington Road Church Court, London W8 4SP: Robinson Publishing Ltd., 1998), Chart 27].

He was given the Orkney and Shetland isles in compensation for the loss of his son Ivar in the wars of Harald Fairhair against the viking raiders in the western lands in 888[Circa 1225 A.D. Snorri Sturluson, Heimskringla, or The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway (London: Norroena Society, 1907), Harald Harfager's Saga and Sir Bernard Burke, compiler, A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1996), pg. 493, 888].

He died in 894. He was killed by two jealous sons of Harlald Fairhair. Halfdan Haleg and Gudrod Ljome set off one spring with a great force, and came suddenly upon Earl Ragnvald, earl of More, and surrounded the house in which he was, and bur

The old vikings had long beards and hair. There came a time whenways began to change and that fashion changed as well. KingHarold Fairhair, first king of Norway was given his name by ourancestor, Earl Rognvald. It happened in this way: King Haroldwas at a feast at Rognvald's holding at More and prepared for itby having a bath and having his long hair washed. Earl Rognvaldcut his hair which had been uncut and uncombed for 10 years andhad caused his name "Lufa" or "Rough Matted Hair". Suchbeautiful, abundant, fair hair was revealed after the washingthat Rognvald gave him the name "Harold Harfager" (HaroldFairhair). All present agreed. This was described in theHiemskringla by Snorri Sturleson. The great story of the kingsof Norway.

Ble norsk høvding i år 900 over Mørefylkene.

Rollo, also called ROLF, or ROU, French ROLLON (b. c. 860--d. c. 932),Scandinavian rover who founded the duchy of Normandie.
Making himself independent of King Harald I of Norway, Rollo sailed offto raid Scotland, England, Flanders, and France on pirating expeditionsand, about 911, established himself in an area along the Seine River.Charles III the Simple of France held off his siege of Paris, battled himnear Chartres, and negotiated the treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte, givinghim the part of Neustria that came to be called Normandie; Rollo inreturn agreed to end his brigandage. He gave his son, William ILongsword, governance of the dukedom (927) before his death. Rollo wasbaptized in 912 but is said to have died a pagan. [EncyclopaediaBritannica CD, 1997, ROLLO]Ancestral File Number: FLGS-2R

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!Name is; Rognvald I, "The Wise" Jarl Of /MORE/

Earl of More
Book of Rememberence-Meacham

May be same person as RIN 1-94?

!SOURCES:
1. The Viking Age, Gen. Hist. 19, v. 1, p. 372, v. 2, p. 262-63, 462-64
2. Plantagenet Ancestry, Eng. 116, p. 6
3. Norsk Biografisk Leksikon, Norw. 10, v. 11, p. 272-73
4. Keiser und Koenig Hist., Gen. Hist. 25, pt 1, p. 100-01
5. France 5, p. 15-24
!RESEARCH NOTES:
Ragnhild Hrolfsson was the 5th wife of Rognvald. His other 4 are unknown
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!BIRTH: "Royal Ancestors" by Michel Call - Based on Call Family Pedigrees FHL
film 844805 & 844806, Family History Library, Salt Lake City, UT. Copy of
"Royal Ancestors" owned by Lynn Bernhard, Orem, UT.

Data From Lynn Jeffrey Bernhard, 2445 W 450 South #4, Springville UT 84663-4950
email - (XXXXX@XXXX.XXX)

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Data From Lynn Jeffrey Bernhard, 2445 W 450 South #4, Springville UT 84663-4950
email - (XXXXX@XXXX.XXX)

OCCUPATION: Høvding (for H. Hårf.) over (Nord)Møre og Romsdal

BIRTH: ABT 0825, Nord-Trøndelag ('Ragnvald Jarl den Mektige')
DEATH: ABT 0892

--Other Fields

Ref Number: 1327

Bodde i Giske, Borgund

SOURCE NOTES:
Snorre; http://worldroots.com/ged/pomer/dat0.html#0

RESEARCH NOTES:
Earl of M”re = M”rejarl; "the Wise"

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AKA den Mektige. Han døde innebrendt. Han var og far til Ga ngerrolv.

443654572. Ragnvald Mørejarl ØYSTEINSSØN(17246) died in 892 in Innebrent på sin gård. (17247) Han levet på harald Hårfagres tid, og blev av ham forlenet med Nordmøre, Romsdal og Søndmøre 865. var av sine samtidige meget ansett for sin klokskap. han kalles også "den mektige". Det var han som klippet Haralds hår, som ikke var klippet på 10 år. Blev av Haralds sønner, Halvdan Hålegg og Gudrød Ljome, som vilde være jarler over Møre, innebrent en natt 892 på sin gård sammen med 60 mann. He was married to Ragnhild (Hild) ROLVSDTR.

May be same person as RIN 1-94?

Earl of More
Book of Rememberence-Meacham

From Genealogical Library book "House of Adam".

Burned to death in his house.

Ragnvald Mørejarl, Ragnvald I "The Wise" Eysteinson / Earl Ragnvald 1 The Mighty of Møre

Earl of More

Ragnvald Øysteinsson Mørejarl (norrønt Rögnvaldr Mœrajarl) (circa 830 - 892) var en jarl på nordvestlandet i Norge på midten av 800-tallet, tilsvarende det området som i dag heter Møre og Romsdal.

Ragnvalds ætt
Ragnvald var sønn av Øystein Ivarsson som ble kalt for Øystein Glumra. I henhold til Orknøyingenes saga går Ragnvalds ætt tilbake til ?Heite Gors sønn var far til Sveide sjøkonge, far til Halvdan den gamle, far til Ivar Opplendingejarl, far til Øystein Glumra, far til Ragnvald jarl den mektige og den rådsnare?. Den samme sagaen strekker hans ætt tilbake til en mytologisk opprinnelse til skikkelse ved navn Fornjot fra Finland eller Kvenland.

Snorre Sturlasson skriver i Harald Hårfagres saga i Heimskringla: ?Ragnvald Mørejarl var den kjæreste venn kong Harald hadde, og kongen satte ham høyt. Ragnvald jarl var gift med Hild, datter til Rolv Nevja; deres sønner var Rolv og Tore. Ragnvald jarl hadde noen frillesønner også; en het Hallad; en annen Einar og en tredje Rollaug; de var voksne da de ektefødte brødrene deres var barn ennå. Rolv var en stor viking; han var så svær til vekst at ingen hest kunne bære ham, derfor gikk han til fots overalt. Han ble kalt for Gange-Rolv. Han herjet ofte i austerveg.?

Ragnvald var således far til sagnomsuste Gange-Rolf som i sagalitteraturen er blitt identifisert som den nordbo som franskmennene kaller for ?Rollo? og som grunnla et jarldømme i Normandie. Dette har imidlertid aldri blitt historisk dokumentert. Via sønnen Torv-Einar ble Ragnvalds ætt giftet inn i det skotske kongehuset.

Den rådsnare
Ifølge Snorre satte Harald Hårfagre Ragnvald til å være jarl over Nordmøre og Romsdal (og etter hvert Sunnmøre). Kongen gav ham rett til hjelp av både stormenn og bønder, likeså skip nok til å verge landet for ufred. Ragnvald ble også kalt Ragnvald jarl den mektige eller den rådsnare, og det ble sagt at begge navnene var sanne.

Kongen skal ha betraktet Ragnvald som en av sine viktigste menn og legenden sier at Ragnvald var den som klippet kongens hår da han etter ti år var blitt konge over alle i Norge. Før ble kongen kalt for ?Harald Luva? (Lurvehode), men etter at håret var skåret, ga Ragnvald ham et nytt navn, ?Hårfagre?.

Orknøyene
Snorre forteller at Ragnvald sendte sønnen Hallad vestover etter at broren Sigurd var blitt drept, men han ble så plaget av vikinger og ransmenn at han ble lei og kom tilbake. Faren ble da sint og skjelte ham ut for ikke å ligne på forfedrene sine. Den andre sønnen, Einar, lovte da at han kunne reise til Orknøyene og aldri komme tilbake til Norge mer. Ragnvald jarl skal da ha sagt at det var like greit om han aldri kom tilbake igjen: ?For jeg har ikke større håp om at dine frender får ære av deg, for alle i morsætta di er trellbårne?.

Ragnvald utstyrte sønnen med skip og mannskap og lot ham dro vestover hvor han kom i kamp med vikinger og drepte dem. På Orknøyene ble han kalt for Torv-Einar for han lot skjære torv som brensel for det vokste ikke trær der. Han ble jarl på Orknøyene og en mektig mann, enøyd og stygg å se på.

Innebrent
Da Harald Hårfagre tok til å eldes ble sønnene hans Halvdan Hålegg og Gudrød Ljome stadig mer misfornøyd med at de selv ikke hadde noe rike mens faren hadde innsatt jarler rundt om i fylkene. De besluttet da å ikke vente mer på odelen sin. Snorre skriver at ?de dro ut med en stor flokk og kom uventet over Ragnvald Mørejarl, kringsatte huset hans og brente ham inne med seksti mann.?

Da kongen hørte dette dro han med en stor hær mot Gudrød som overga seg og ble sendt til Agder. Kongen innsatte så Tore Teiande, sønn av Ragnvald Mørejarl, som ny jarl og giftet ham med datteren Ålov. Kongsdatteren ble siden kalt ?Årbot?. Halvdan Hålegg dro derimot over til Orknøyene, kom uventet på Torv-Einar som måtte flykte, men samme høst kom Torv-Einar tilbake og overrasket Halvdan og fikk ham drept.

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NAME Rognvald I "The Wise" Jarl Of /MORE/

A Norwegian Viking.He supported King Harold Fairhair in an attempt tounify Norway.

Was an Earl of More in Norway

!SOURCES:
1. The Viking Age, Gen. Hist. 19, v. 1, p. 372, v. 2, p. 262-63, 462-64
2. Plantagenet Ancestry, Eng. 116, p. 6
3. Norsk Biografisk Leksikon, Norw. 10, v. 11, p. 272-73
4. Keiser und Koenig Hist., Gen. Hist. 25, pt 1, p. 100-01
5. France 5, p. 15-24
!RESEARCH NOTES:
Ragnhild Hrolfsson was the 5th wife of Rognvald. His other 4 are unknown

ALSO LISTED AS "ROGNVALD"; KNOWN AS "MOREJARL""THE MIGHTY""THE RICH"; EARL OF
MERO; MAERMOR IN NORWAY; KILLED IN BATTLE

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Original individual @P2203968373@ (@MS_NHFETTERLYFAMIL0@) merged with @P2203946053@ (@MS_NHFETTERLYFAMIL0@)

36th great grandfather

!SOURCES:
1. The Viking Age, Gen. Hist. 19, v. 1, p. 372, v. 2, p. 262-63, 462-64
2. Plantagenet Ancestry, Eng. 116, p. 6
3. Norsk Biografisk Leksikon, Norw. 10, v. 11, p. 272-73
4. Keiser und Koenig Hist., Gen. Hist. 25, pt 1, p. 100-01
5. France 5, p. 15-24
!RESEARCH NOTES:
Ragnhild Hrolfsson was the 5th wife of Rognvald. His other 4 are unknown

Earl of More. Led a Viking life in the West of Scnadinavia, in the reign of Harfager, King of Norway.

Ragnvald Mørejarl (død 892) er ifølge Snorre sønn til Øystein Glumra og levde samtidig med Harald Hårfagre, som satte ham til høvding over Nordmøre og Romsdal (og etter hvert Sunnmøre). Kongen gav ham rett til hjelp av både av stormenn og bønder, likeså skip nok til å verge landet for ufred. Ragnvald ble også kalt Ragnvald jarl den mektige eller den rådsnare, og det ble sagt at begge navnene var sanne.

Ragnvald jarl var gift med Hild, datter til Rolv Nevja. En av sønnene hans var Gange-Rolv, som siden skal ha blitt hertug over Normandie (911). En annen var Ivar (frillesønn), som skal skal ha falt i kamp i Skottland. I vederlag for tapet av sønnen gav kong Harald Ragnvald jarl Orknøyene og Hjaltland, som han i sin tur igjen gav til bror sin Sigurd. Sagen never dessuten en sønn Tore Teiande, som skal være fullbror med Ganger-Rolv. Dessutene frillesønnene Haddad (noen steder kalt Hallad), Torv-Einar og Rollaug.

Haraldsønnene Halvdan Hålegg og Gudrød Ljome skal ha brent Ragnvald og 60 mann inne en gang de kom over ham. Kong Harald satte da Tore, sønn til Ragnvald jarl, over Møre, og giftet ham med Ålov, dattera si, hun som ble kalt Årbot. Tore jarl Teiande fikk da samme riket som hans far Ragnvald hadde hatt.

!SOURCES:
1. The Viking Age, Gen. Hist. 19, v. 1, p. 372, v. 2, p. 262-63, 462-64
2. Plantagenet Ancestry, Eng. 116, p. 6
3. Norsk Biografisk Leksikon, Norw. 10, v. 11, p. 272-73
4. Keiser und Koenig Hist., Gen. Hist. 25, pt 1, p. 100-01
5. France 5, p. 15-24
!RESEARCH NOTES:
Ragnhild Hrolfsson was the 5th wife of Rognvald. His other 4 are unknown

Cousin et beau-frère du Roi de Norvège Harald I Haarfrage dont il a l'honneur de couper les cheveux et dont il est le chef de guerre (Hovding).
il meurt brulé vif dans sa maison avec sa femme Ragnhild

From Genealogical Library book "House of Adam".

He was named Jarl over Nord-møre and Romsdal in 869.

Rögnvald (Old Norse: Rögnvaldr Mœrajarl, Norwegian: Ragnvald Mørejarl),
Jarl of More (Møre) Norvège. was jarl (earl) in the northwest coast of Norway, called More, approximately of the Norwegian county today known as Møre og Romsdal.

Mythical material (saga) postulate that his line was a male-line descent from Ancient kings of Finland.

Earl Ragnvald is a direct ancestor of Thorfinn Sigurdsson, William the Conqueror, Edward III of England, James I of England, and Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom. He is therefore an ancestor of most of the royal families of Europe.

The legend says he was the one to cut the hair of king Harald Hårfagre (Haraldr hinn hárfagri b. 849) after he became king over all of Norway.

- Ragnvald Eysteinsson le sage, (v. 835 - v. 890)

Fra Per Tuff's bok om Losa-ætten :
s.113
Både Lade-jarlene, Orknøy-jarlene og Møre-jarlene skal nedstamme fra den mektige høvding Ragnvald
Mørejarl. Hans ætt er meget gammel og kan følges tilbake Hålogaland samt til øyene på Vestlandet fra Sogn
og nordover og da særlig på Møre.
Man antar at høvdinger av denne ætt drev som "sjøkonger" eller simpelthen som sjørøvere på Møre og på
Orknøyene. Omkring år 790 måtte ætten flytte over til Østlandet og slo seg da ned på Svadabu eller Ringsaker
, Hedemarken. Her treffer vi de første historiske personer i denne ætt, nemlig :
Halvdan "den gamle" og sønnen Ivar Opplendske Jarl samt dennes sønn Eystein Glumra, som ble far til
Ragnvald Mørejarl. Vi vet at Eystein Glumra og hans sønn Ragnvald kom tilbake til Møre omkring årene 860-
880. Ved en overenskomst med Harald Hårfagre fikk Ragnvald Mørejarl distriktene Nordmøre, Romsdal og
Sunnmøre som len. Siden ble de uvenner og det endte med at Ragnvald Mørejarl ble brent inne ca.år 890.
Han etterlot seg mange sønner som ble stamfedre til mektige ætter. Av sønnene skal nevnes :

1) Ragnvald (Rollaug) , landnåmsmann på Island med stor etterslekt.
2) Gange-Rolv, som ifølge norske tradisjoner grunnla hertugdømmet Normandie i Frankrike og ble stamfar til
den kjnte normanniske hertugslekt.
3) Torv-Einar, som ble stamfar til de mektige Orknøy-jarlene og dermed også til Arne på Korsbrekke og
Erlend Arnesson. Torv-Einars ætlinger satt som jarler på Orknøyene i 300 år.
4) Tore Mørejarl, også kalt Tore den tause, ble sin fars etterfølger på Møre og var ifølge Snorre gift med
Ålov, datter til Harald Hårfagre og Gyda fra Valdres. Om dette giftermålet forteller Snorre følgende (
Snorre Sturlasons Kongesagaer, utgave 1930 side 56-57,69 og 76 ) :
"Kong Harald sendte sine menn etter en mø, som het Gyda, datter til kong Eirik av Hordaland. Hun
ble fostret hos en rik bonde i Valdres (på gården Kvien i Vang, Valdres). Henne ville ha ta til frille, for hun
var en overlag ven mø og ikke så lite stor på det.Hun svarte at hun ikke ville spilde sin mødom for å ta til
mann en konge som ikke hadde større rike enn noen fylker." Etter at kong Harald hadde samlet hele
Norge, lot han Gyda føre til seg, og giftet seg med henne. Det eldste av derse barn var Ålov, som
siden ble kalt Ålov Årbot og gift med Tore Mørejarl. Derved ble hun stammor til bl.a Håkon Ladejarl og
korstogfareren Skofte Ågmundsson, som før er nevnt.

!SOURCES:
1. The Viking Age, Gen. Hist. 19, v. 1, p. 372, v. 2, p. 262-63, 462-64
2. Plantagenet Ancestry, Eng. 116, p. 6
3. Norsk Biografisk Leksikon, Norw. 10, v. 11, p. 272-73
4. Keiser und Koenig Hist., Gen. Hist. 25, pt 1, p. 100-01
5. France 5, p. 15-24
!RESEARCH NOTES:
Ragnhild Hrolfsson was the 5th wife of Rognvald. His other 4 are unknown

Ragnwald Eysteinsson and Ragnhild (Hilda) Hrolfsson were married in 0851 and had a number of kids, apparently before and after the marriage. He is the founder of the Earldom of Orkney. He and a son, Ivarr, went with Harald Fairhair on a Western expn, and when Ivarr was killed, Ragnvald was given the Orkneys and the Shetlands. Ragnvald was later killed by Harald's son, Halfdan, who in turn is slain by another of Ragnvald's sons, Earl Turf-Einar, who the later Orkney Earls claim descent from.

"The Wise"

Randy Wilson, Overview Chart of Lineal Ancestors of King Edward
of England and Philippa of Hainault.

Ragnvald, a Norwegian Jarl. Rogwarld the Rich, Earl of Denmark.

Index to Royal Genealogical Data, University of Hull WEB database,
1995.

Ragnvald Eysteinsson le Sage.

Alan B. Wilson, July 1997, soc.genealogy.medieval. Rognvald
Eysteinsson the Wise, Jarl of More, born cira 830 in More, Norway.

GenServ database SMIA7MT, December 1998. Rognvald I, born about 857.
Of Upland, Denmark. Died in the Orkney Islands.

LDS Ancestral File, 4 November 2001. Born circa 830. Died 890/894
at Orkney, Orkney Islands, Scotland.

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1 NAME the Wise //
2 GIVN the Wise
2 SURN
2 NICK the Wise

[De La Pole.FTW]
Sources: A. Roots 121E, 243A; Norr; RC 166, 295; History of the Vikings; Russell; Pfafman; Kraentzler 1453, 1593; Falaise Roll, page 80; Norr, p59. Roots: Ragnvald I, "the Wise," Jarl of North and South More, and of Ramsdel in Norway, seen 867, died 890. More also spelled Moer and Maer. RC: Rognvald Eysteinsson "the Wise", Jarl of More, a Norwegian Viking. K: Regenwald de Maere & de Reumdahl in Norway. Ragnivald I, Count de Maere.
Russell: Rogvald, Jarl of More, A.D. 885.
Earl of More/Moer in Norway and Jarl of Orkney and Shetland. He had his name Gallicized to Reginald. He supported King Harold Fairhair in an attempt to unify Norway. Norr: Jarl Rognwald (Rogvald, Raonwald, Regvald, Rouis), created Earl of Moer in 885. Roll: Rognwald, Earl of Maere. Norr: Jarl Rogwald (Raowald, Regvald, Rouis), Earl of Moer 885. Married Hilder. Beyond Rognvald, things get pretty confused. Norr has about 25 generations going back to Oden. RC doesn't agree. But some RC names coming down from RC's Odin agree in the upper portion. But the dates are some 250 years different. RC and Kraentzler agree in taking Rognvald back three more generations. Russell goes way back to Olaf the Sharp-eyed, King of Rerik.

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Voorouders (en nakomelingen) van Ragnvald Eysteinsson

Gundella? Eysteinsdatter
± 785-± 850

Ragnvald "Heidumhære" Óláfsson
± 785-± 850

Thora Sigurdsdatter
± 785-± 888

Eystein «the Noisy» Glumra
± 810-± 910

Ásdís (Ascrida) Ragnvaldsdóttir
± 820-± 912

Ragnvald Eysteinsson
± 830-± 894

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					Gangu-Hrólfr 'Rollo' Ragnvaldsson Mœrajarl ± 870-± 932

(1) ± 855

Ragnhild 'Hild' Hrólfsdóttir Nefja
± 857-± 938



					Gangu-Hrólfr 'Rollo' Ragnvaldsson Mœrajarl ± 870-± 932

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De temperatuur op 12 april 1904 lag tussen -1.2 °C en 13,4 °C en was gemiddeld 7,7 °C. Er was 4,9 uur zonneschijn (36%). De gemiddelde windsnelheid was 4 Bft (matige wind) en kwam overheersend uit het zuid-oosten. Bron: KNMI
Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was van 1890 tot 1948 vorst van Nederland (ook wel Koninkrijk der Nederlanden genoemd)
Van 1 augustus 1901 tot 16 augustus 1905 was er in Nederland het kabinet Kuijper met als eerste minister Dr. A. Kuijper (AR).
In het jaar 1904: Bron: Wikipedia
- Nederland had zo'n 5,4 miljoen inwoners.
- 12 februari » In Amsterdam wordt de eerste tentoonstelling van de Rijwiel- en Automobielindustrie (RAI) geopend.
- 1 mei » België en Frankrijk spelen beide de eerste voetbalinterland uit hun geschiedenis en spelen in Brussel met 3-3 gelijk.
- 4 juli » Oprichting van de Duitse voetbalclub Borussia Fulda.
- 31 oktober » Einde van de pogingen van de Japanners om Port Arthur te veroveren in de Russisch-Japanse Oorlog
- 31 oktober » Het Nationaal Congres van Brazilië keurt de Wet voor Verplichte Vaccinatie goed, wat de aanleiding is voor de "Vaccinrevolte".
- 5 november » De Engelse atleet Alfred Shrubb vestigt het werelduurrecord atletiek in Glasgow: in één uur tijd loopt hij 18742 m.

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