| But the name earl gradually merged with the Danish jarl and, after the reign of Alfred, earls took over the responsibilities of ealdormen. |
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| Birger was appointed jarl in 1248 by the last member of the family of St. Erik, Erik Eriksson, to whose sister he was married. |
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| The Norman jarl Gundraed attacked Galicia with 100 ships and 8,000 warriors. |
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| The king and the jarl shall send emissaries to the Gutnish thing to receive the taxes. |
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| This was the first time this title had been used in Norway, and meant that the title jarl was no longer the highest rank below the king. |
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| Snorri stayed with the jarl, or chief, and his son and the jarl made him a jarl hoping to command his allegiance. |
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| In later medieval Norway, the title of jarl was the highest rank below the king. |
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| There was usually no more than one jarl in mainland Norway at any one time, sometimes none. |
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| However, earlier in Scandinavia, jarl could also mean a sovereign prince. |
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| Erling, with the title jarl, became the real leader of the faction. |
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| Mordaunt Merton is clearly below the social rank of the daughters of Magnus Troil, the Udaler and Jarl of Zetland. |
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| In trying to get two girls, Unn and Kadlin, to help, our young innocent finds himself hauled before the Jarl and expelled from the islands. |
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| Wake-up call Stay at the Birger Jarl Stockholm, a stylish and modern hotel. |
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| Brandishing an axe, he led his Jarl Squad Brandishing an axe, he led his Jarl Squad as the Shetland Isles's sles's Up HellyAa celebrations began. |
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| Cleaving the air with bloodstroke upon bloodstroke, Jarl made his bitter steel sing. |
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| After this, Haakon Jarl ruled Norway as a vassal of Harald Bluetooth, but he was in reality an independent ruler. |
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| Unknown to the committee, the theorem had already been proven, in 1922, by Jarl Waldemar Lindeberg. |
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| This caught the ear of Jarl Haakon, who sent Thorer Klakka to Ireland, posing as a merchant, to see if he was the son of Tryggve Olafson. |
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| The play is based on the story of Haakon Jarl and Tormod Kark as portrayed in the Sagas by Snorri Sturluson. |
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| Civil war broke out between Haakon Jarl and the surviving brothers of Harald Greycloak, but Haakon proved victorious. |
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| After spying a raven haired beauty, who turns out to be Lillian, the lord's daughter, Eriik, the Viking Jarl, is determined to take more than Saxon riches back to his home. |
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| Jarlshola is the location in Melhus thought to have been the hiding place of Haakon Jarl and Tormod Kark on their last night before the infamous murder at Rimul. |
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| When a Jarl died and was buried, his household thralls were sometimes sacrificially killed and buried next to him, as many excavations have revealed. |
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| His grandson Thorstein the Red and Sigurd the Mighty, Jarl of Orkney invaded Scotland were able to exact tribute from nearly half the kingdom until their deaths in battle. |
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| Otto's army met the armies of King Harald Bluetooth and Haakon Jarl the ruler of Norway under the Danish king, at Danevirke, a great wall near Schleswig. |
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| Olaf Tryggvason persuaded the rebels to accept him as their king, and Jarl Haakon was murdered by his own slave, while he was hiding from the rebels in a pig sty. |
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| When Jarl reached an age when he began to handle weapons and show other signs of nobility, Rig returned and, having claimed him as a son, taught him the runes. |
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| Meanwhile, Gissur was given the title of Jarl and sent home to negotiate. |
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