Hålogaland
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Hålogaland was the northernmost of the Norwegian provinces in the medieval Norse sagas. In the early Viking Age, before Harald Fairhair, Hålogaland was a kingdom extending between the Namdalen valley in Trøndelag county and the Lyngen fjord in Troms county.
Hålogaland around 1000 CE
Tromsø, by Peder Balke The painting illustrates the rugged fjords and island terrain in Hålogaland.
Chieftain House at Borg in Lofoten Lofotr Viking Museum
Harald Fairhair
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Harald Fairhair was a Norwegian king. According to traditions current in Norway and Iceland in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, he reigned from c. 872 to 930 and was the first King of Norway. Supposedly, two of his sons, Eric Bloodaxe and Haakon the Good, succeeded Harald to become kings after his death.
Harald Fairhair (left) in an illustration from the fourteenth-century Flateyjarbók.
Harald Haarfager later in his life
The 1872 monument to Harald at Haraldshaugen.
Haraldshaugen Monument (June 2018)