Rognvald "The Wise" Eysteinsson Jarl of More

   Other names for Rognvald were Jarl Ragnald I of Orkney and Jarl Rognvaldr of Møre.

  General Notes:

~Weis' Ancestral Roots . . ., 121E:17, Jarl of North and South More, and of Ramsdal in Norway, seen in 867, d. 890, m. Hiltrude or Raginhilde, daughter of Hrolf Nefia ¹⁶⁰

  Noted events in his life were:

• Dates & Events.
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, 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.

Rognvald married Ranghilda Hrólfsson ¹⁶⁰.^,560 (Ranghilda Hrólfsson was born in 822.)