Hálfdan "The Old" Of Norway

  General Notes:

~ Weis's Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 121E:14, Halfdan "the Old," father of Ivar Oplaendinger. ¹⁶⁰

  Noted events in his life were:

• Web Reference: Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands, Descendants of Halfdan "the old".
Halfdan "the Old" is named in the Orkneyinga Saga, "…the sea-king Sveidi, father of Halfdan the Old…" [Orkneyinga Saga 3, p. 26]. Halfdan's son is Ivar named in Orkneyinga Saga names "Halfdan the Old, father of Earl Ivar of the Uplands…" [Orkneyinga Saga 3, p. 26]. Ivar's son is Eystein "Glumra" and the Orkneyinga Saga names "Earl Ivar of the Uplands, father of Eystein the Clatterer…" [Orkneyinga Saga 3, p. 26]. of Eyestein's children, Svanhid marreid Harald I King of Norway won of Halfdan "Swarti." Snorre names "Snahild, a daughter of Earl Eystein" as one of the wives of King Harald [Snorre, Harald Harfager's Saga, 21.].