You have taken over from your father Harald Finehair, King of Norway. He established an earldom on Orkney and had good relations with the ruling Earls.

The newly formed kingdom of the Scots known as 'Alba' is growing in strength all the time.

Evidence of a Norse settlement on Shetland. Slate etched with a man and a domestic hen, Jarlshof, Shetland.

Evidence of Norse settlement on Orkney. Pin, Brough of Birsay, Orkney.