Halfdan
the Old, who
confusingly is named identically to Halfdan the Old who is a
descendant of Nór. But it is from Halfan
the Old who is called a descendant of Gór
from whom springs at last the Jarls of Orkney who are the subject of
the Orkneyinga saga. See Halfdan the Old to follow this lineage
further. Alternative spellings Alternative Anglicizations
are: Glói: Gloi ; Gór: Gorr ; Hrólf: Hrolf, Rolf ; Nór: Norr ;
Forniot, Forniotr ; Hlér: Hler ; Jökul: Jokul, Iökul ; Kári: Kari
; Snær: Snaer, Snśr, Snow ; Véi: Vee.
King
Thorri
(Þorri 'fozen snow'), king of Götaland, Finland, and Kvenland in B,
was son of Snær ('Snow') the Old, a descendant of Fornjót (ruler of
Finland and Kvenland in F). See Snær and Fornj??t for further
information.
Both
accounts state that great sacrifice was made yearly at mid-winter,
either offered by Thorri (F) or offered by the Kvens to Thorri (B),
whence was derived both the name of the mid-winter sacrifice and the
name of the winter month Thorri corresponding to late January and
early February in the Roman calendar..
Thorri
was father of two sons named Nór and Gór (Górr) and a daughter
named Gói ('thin snow, track-snow').
The
story of Nór
One
year, at the time of Thorri's Sacrifice, Gói the daughter of King
Thorri suddenly vanished. Thorri held a second feast the following
month hoping to learn what had become of Gói. That sacrifice was
afterward also observed regularly and known as Gói's Sacrifice and
the name of the month was thence named Gói.
When
Gói was still not found after three years, her brothers Nór and Gór
set out separately in search of her with many folk in their
following, Nór and his folk going by land on skies while Gór went
by ship and searched the islands and skerries.
Eventually
Nór and his following came to the Kjölen Mountains (the Keel) and
passed into was later to be called Norway, defeating any who opposed
him. F relates in paricular that Nór defeated the folk around what
as later called the Trondheim fjörd, that Nór also took possession
of the eastern lands near Lake Mjors (modern Lake Mjøsen), then slew
King Sokni, the eponym of Sokna Dale (modern Sogndal) and Sognefjörd
(modern Sognefjorden) and took possession of his kingdom. But B
mentions instead the defeat of four kings named Véi, Vei, Hunding
(Hundingr), and Heming(Hemingr).
Then,
in Heidemark (approximately the modern region of Hedemarken in the
more extensive province of Hedmark), Nór met with King Hrólf of the
Hill (Hrólfr í Bergr). Hrólf was son of the giant Svadi (Svaði)
from Dovre Mountain in the north. According to B Hrólf's mother was
Áshild (Áshildr) daughter of King Eystein of Heidemark. It was this
Hrólf who had taken Gói captive and had then made her his wife. Nór
and Hrólf came to terms (after a long single combat according to F).
Hrólf kept Gói as his wife and Nór aftewards married Hrólf's
sister (called Hödd in B) and became Nór's man.
Both
accounts relate that Gór eventually joined Nór and the two brothers
made an agreement that Nór would rule all the mainland but Gór
would rule all islands around the mainland, that he would be lord
over any island that was separated from the mainland by a channel
through which a ship with a fixed rudder was able to pass. The
mainland was then named Norway (Noregr) after Nór. Nór's new
kingdom is now said to have been what is south-eastern Norway today,
as it extended from Jötunheim mountains in the north to what was
later known as Álfheim (roughly the modern Bahusia) in the south,
the southern border of Nór's land being what is now the Glomma river
whose southwestern course is not very far inside the southeastern
border of modern Norway.
The
sons and grandsons and later descendants of Nór continually divided
their inheritances among themselves so that Norway became filled with
many small kingdoms and lordships.
Descendants
of Nór
Sons
of Nór
According
to B, Nór's sons by Hödd were Thránd (Þrándr) and Gard (Garðr).
B later brings in another son of Nór named Raum (Raumr). Presumably
either Raum had another mother than Hödd or Raum's name has
accidently dropped out from the earlier listing of Hödd's sons.
Thránd
Thránd
ruled Trondheim (Þrándheimr) which was named after him and refers
approximately to Sør-Trøndelag the most southern parts of
Nord-Trøndelag rather than to the city now called Trondheim.
Eireks
saga víðförla ('The Saga of Eirek the Traveller') also brings in
Thrand as the first king to regin of Trondheim. Thrand's ancestry is
not given here, but he is the father of Eirek the Traveller (Eirekr
inn víðforli) the hero of the saga.
Hálfdanar
saga Eysteinssonar ('Saga of Halfdan Eystein's son') states instead
that Trondheim was named from King Thránd, the father of Eirek the
Traveller, but also states that Thrand was son of King Sæming of
Hálogaland, son of Odin, and that Thránd's mother and Sæming's
wife was Nauma after whom Naumu Dale was named. For more on Sæming
see Sons of Odin. Thrand's wife is here said to be Dagmær sister of
Svanhvít the wife of Hrómund Grip's son, the protagonist of
Hrómundar saga Gripssonar. The saga says that Eystein, son of Thrand
and Dagmær, married Ása, a daughter of Sigurd Hart (the maternal
grandfather of Harald Fairhair), and she bore him Halfdan, the hero
of the saga. This places Thrand just three generations back from
Harald Fairhair. But this saga seems to be a late and untraditional
creation, dating only to the early 14th century.
Gard
Gard
son of Nór was also called Gard Agdi (Garðr Agði), apparently as
ruler of Agdir (Agðir): the modern counties of Vest-Agder and
Aust-Agder. Gard Agdi's descendants ruled the southwestern regions of
Norway. See Gard Agdi for details.
Raum
the Old
Raum
inherited south-eastern Norway and also the northwestern valley of
the Rauma river to the western sea which waters the region called
Raums Dale (modern Romsdal). Raum in this account also ruled the land
of Álfheim to the south. See Raum the Old for further details on
Raum and his descendants.
Descendants
of Gór
Gór
had sons named Heiti and Beiti (and according to B two other sons
named Meitir and Geitir). Heiti and Beiti often made war against the
sons of Nór.
Beiti
the sea-king had one of his ships put on sledge runners and so passed
in the ship over the snow-covered land starting from what was
afterwards called Beitstad on Beitstadfjörd from Beiti's named and
passing north across Ellidæid (Elliðæið 'Galley-neck') to Naumu
Dale (Naumudal) with his father Gór in the ship with his hand on the
tiller. So, by the agreement that had been made between Nór and Gór,
the land between the path of the ship and the sea became Beiti's.
The
names of Beiti's descendants are missing from B. Heiti the sea-king
was the father of Svadi (Svaði). Geitir was father of Glammi and
Gylfi; and Meitir the sea-king was father of two sons named M??vil
and Myndil (Myndill), Myndil being father of two sons named Ekkil
(Ekkill) and Skekkil (Skekkill).
But
F speaks only of Nór's son Heiti as the father of Sveidi (Sveiði)
the father of Halfdan the Old, who confusingly is named identically
to Halfdan the Old who is a descendant of Nór. But it is from Halfan
the Old who is called a descendant of Gór from whom springs at last
the Jarls of Orkney who are the subject of the Orkneyinga saga. See
Halfdan the Old to follow this lineage further.
Alternative
spellings
Alternative
Anglicizations are: Glói: Gloi ; Gór: Gorr ; Hrólf: Hrolf, Rolf ;
Nór: Norr ; Forniot, Forniotr ; Hlér: Hler ; Jökul: Jokul, Iökul
; Kári: Kari ; Snær: Snaer, Snsr, Snow ; Véi: Vee.
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