Eystein Glumra ("Eystein the Noisy" or "Eystein the Clatterer";
Modern Norwegian
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''Øystein Glumra''), also known as Eystein Ivarsson, was reputedly a
petty king on the west coast of
Norway
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during the 9th century.
The ''
Heimskringla
() is the best known of the Old Norse kings' sagas. It was written in Old Norse in Iceland. While authorship of ''Heimskringla'' is nowhere attributed, some scholars assume it is written by the Icelandic poet and historian Snorri Sturluson (117 ...
'' saga states that Eystein Glumra was the father of
Rognvald Eysteinsson and
Sigurd Eysteinsson: "The first
earl of the Orkney Islands was ... Sigurd ... a son of Eystein Glumra, and brother of Ragnvald earl of More. After Sigurd, his son Guthorm was earl for one year. After him Torf-Einar, a son of Ragnvald ... was long earl, and was a man of great power".
According to the ''
Orkneyinga saga
The ''Orkneyinga saga'' (Old Norse: ; ; also called the ''History of the Earls of Orkney'' and ''Jarls' Saga'') is a narrative of the history of the Orkney and Shetland islands and their relationship with other local polities, particularly No ...
'', Eystein Glumra was the son of
Ivar Halfdansson and grandson of
Halfdan the Old. The ''Orkneyinga Saga'' also named Eystein Glumra as the father of Rognvald Eysteinsson:
The Orkneyingers’ Saga
/ref> "Heiti, Gorr's son, was father of Sveiði the sea-king, ho wasthe father of Halfdan the old, ho wasthe father of Ivar the Uplanders' earl, ho wasthe father of Eystein the noisy, ho wasthe father of earl Rognvald the mighty and wise in council".
Two novels by Linnea Hartsuyker, ''The Half-Drowned King'' (2017) and ''The Sea Queen'' (2018), cover the lives of Eystein's children.
References
9th-century births
9th-century deaths
Norwegian petty kings
9th-century monarchs in Europe
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