halegg

Updated: January 11, 2026

When Jarl Ragnvald of Maeri, the first of the Orkney jarls, was killed in Norway by two of Harald Harfagr's sons, one of them, Halfdan Halegg or Long-shanks fled from their father's vengeance to Orkney.

James Gray - Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time: or, The Jarls and The Freskyns