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Division of Norway ca. 930 AD. The orange area is the domain the earls of Møre.

The Earls of Møre (Шаблон:Lang-non) were a dynasty of powerful noblemen in Norway dating to the unification of Norway in the 9th century. The first earl of Møre was Rognvald Eysteinsson, a close friend and ally of King Harald I of Norway. He is called by the byname Rognvald Шаблон:Lang (Шаблон:Lang-non) in the Heimskringla and Orkneyinga saga.[1]

During the early Viking Age, Norway consisted of a number of petty kingdoms. King Harald I was able to unite them all after winning the Battle of Hafrsfjord in 872. Subsequently, King Harald I granted land to his sons and other earls who swore fealty to him. The land and estates of the earls of Møre were primary located in modern-day Sunnmøre and Nordmøre in the county of Møre og Romsdal, in the northernmost part of Western Norway.[2]

The earls of Møre and the Norse earls of Orkney were very closely related. The first sitting earl of Orkney was Sigurd Eysteinsson, brother of Rognvald Шаблон:Lang. After several relations held reigns of less than two years, Шаблон:Lang, the youngest of the illegitimate sons of Rognvald Шаблон:Lang, became the fourth earl of Orkney and established the bloodline from which the earls of Orkney would directly descend until 1231.[3]

Dynasty

  1. Rognvald Eysteinsson, reigned mid-9th century to his death in Шаблон:Circa
  2. Thorir Rögnvaldarson, reigned Шаблон:Circa

References

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