Helgi Bjolan Ketilsson

• Preferred Name: Helgi Bjolan Ketilsson^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]}
  
• Gender: M
  
• FSID: LTZX-636
  
• Death: in Eyjafjarðar, Iceland at LATI: N4.89 LONG: E18.16
  
• Birth: ABT 848 in Of, Raumsdal, Telemark, Norway at LATI: N9.067 LONG: E0.7326
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  The Life Summary of Helgi Bjolan
  Helgi Bjolan KETILSSON was born about 0848, in Bakstebordholmen, Telemark, Norway. He married Thorny Ingolfsdatter about 0889, in Iceland. They were the parents of at least 5 sons. He died in Iceland.
  
  About Helgi Bjóla Ketilsson
  Helge Bjola Ketilsson (Helgi Bjóla)
  
  Helgi Bjóla Tilnavn / fordanskning: Helge Bjola Lokalitet: Syderøerne og Hof på Kjalarnæs, vestl. Island. Relationer: Søn af Ketil Fladnæse, broder til Aud den Dybsindige og Thorun Hyrna. Fader til Dræber-Rapp og Eyvind Hjalte. Kilder: Landnamabogen: 13, 14, 15, 84, 354, 356.
  
  http://heimskringla.no/wiki/Landnamabogen
  
  Ketil Fladnæses søn Helge Bjola drog til Island fra Syderøerne. Han boede hos Ingolf den første vinter og efter hans råd tog han land på Kjalarnæs, alt mellem Mogilså og Mydalså. Han boede ved Hof. Han havde sønnerne Dræber-Rap[18] og Eyvind Hjalte[19], der var fader til Kolsvein, der igen var fader til Eyvind, som var gift med Thorlaug Klængsdatter. De havde en datter, som hed Thorgerd, hun var moder til Thora, der var gift med Asger Kneifars søn Thorkel. Deres søn var Øgmund, der var far til biskop Jon den Hellige.
  
  http://heimskringla.no/wiki/Landnamabogen_1 (14)
  
  Aud begav sig mod Kjalarnæs, hvor hendes broder Helge Bjola boede. Han indbød hende til at blive der sammen med halvdelen af hendes folk. Hun syntes at dette var småligt og spurgte ham, hvor længe han havde tænkt sig at høre til småfolk.
  http://heimskringla.no/wiki/Landnamabogen_2 (84)
  
  === Thorny/Ingolfsson ===
  Thorny/Ingolfsson
  
  === From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 J ===
  From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996.
  
  === Ancestral File Number: 18JW-578 ===
  Ancestral File Number: 18JW-578
  
  === ANCESTRAL FILE, LDS GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY ===
  ANCESTRAL FILE, LDS GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY;
  
  === Line 41845 from GEDCOM File not recogniz ===
  Line 41845 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: NAME Helgi (Bjolan) /Ketilsson/ GIVN Helgi (Bjolan) Line 41846 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: NAME Helgi (Bjolan) /Ketilsson/ SURN Ketilsson GEDCOM line 713 not recognizable or too long: (SLGC) 2 FAMC GEDCOM line 714 not recognizable or too long: () 1 SOUR !GENERAL:Ancestral File (TM), Ancestral File (TM), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, June 1998 (c), data as of 5 JAN 1998 Repository: Family History Library 35 N West Temple Street Salt Lake City, UT 84150 USA !GENERAL:Ancestral File (TM), Ancestral File (TM), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, June 1998 (c), data as of 5 JAN 1998
  
  === From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 J ===
  From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996. From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996.
  
  === Child born, Mother: Not known ===
  Child born, Mother: Not known

1. Bjolan "Beolan" , b. 886 in Hebrides, Scotland     d. DECEASED

• m. 889 in Iceland
• m. ABT 889 in Norway
• m. ABT 889 in Iceland

1. Title: Celtic reference to King Beollan and Helgi Bjolan, "Antiquaries of Scotland, Volume 31"
   Author: Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, Volume 31 By Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 1896-7
   Publication: Name: https://books.google.com/books?id=fBYnAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA250&lpg=PA250&dq=bjolan+hebrides&source=bl&ots=dNT_Xicazd&sig=TX25cj6BUKhZNhOh7FBlwRwj5iU&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjTh9XhovfPAhVB02MKHd56Cc8Q6AEILzAE#v=onepage&q&f=false;
   Note: The Antiquities Society of Scotland said in 1897 a King of Ross was of the name (Beollan). And there is an Island with a name like that they say. And they mention Helgi Bjola(n) as follows: "When King Harald heard of this, he sent west Ketil flatnef, the son of Bjom buna, to win back the (Isles). Ketil did so, but more for his own hand than in King Harald's interests. His son,Helgi bj6Ia (bjola), went to Iceland from the Hebrides, and took possession of Kjalarness on the West coast. It is very probable that this surname of *bj61a' (bjola) or 'bj61an' (bjolan) is the Irish islands.'' Beolldn (Beollan), A Scottish king of that name, belonging to the 9th century, is mentioned in Ldri^ ii. 11, and the use of Gaelic names as appendages to Norse ones appears in other cases. (Note: The computer could not handle transcription of some letters...like the 6 in Bjolan. Try the following link for the exact words: (https://books.google.com/books?id=fBYnAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA250&...)
   Page: Helgi Bjola may have left a son in the Hebrides who became a King (Chief) in Scotland. His nephew was a King of Ross (Could be reference to the son of his sister Aud, the Deep-minded.) If so they were likely in the Hebridese for a long time.
   
2. Title: Legacy NFS Source: LANDNAMSMADUR Helgi (Bjola) Ketilsson -
   Author: Ancestral File (TM), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, June 1998 (c), data as of 5 JAN 1998, Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, UT 84150 USA
   Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:3243695014
   
3. Title: Helgi Bjolan succeeded Kitell Bjornsson as ruler of the Hebrides, "History of the Outer Hebrides"
   Author: HISTORY OF THE OUTER HEBRIDES (LEWIS, HARRIS, NORTH AND SOUT& UIST, BENBECULA, AND BARRA). BY W. C. MACKENZIE. 1903
   Note: PP. 13-14 ...in establishing an independent monarchy over the chain of islands extending from the Shetlands to Man, he doubtless received both the countenance and assistance of his powerful son-in-law, the King of Dublin. Ketil's sovereignty, how- ever, was of short duration, for he appears to have died soon after its establishment. He was succeeded by his son Helgi, whose dominions afforded a welcome refuge to his sister Aude and her son Thorstein the Red, after the death of Olaf the White. Helgi the Lean, who had married Ketil's daughter Thorun, also found, with his wife, a safe asylum there. The Eyrbyggia Saga states that Helgi's brother Bjorn, whose lands had been forfeited by Harald Fairhair in retaliation for the revolt of Ketil Flatnose, came " west-over-the-sea " for protection, and was warmly welcomed by Helgi." The latter, with some of his relatives, appears to have been converted to Christianity. Seeing that they had cast off the faith of their fathers, Bjorn " had no heart to dwell " with them, and stayed the winter with his sister Aude and Thorstein, her son, who had probably not come under the same Christianising influences amongst the Dublin Ostmen as had her brother Helgi in the Hebrides. From the Hebrides Bjorn proceeded to Iceland, where he was fol- lowed by Helgi the Lean with his wife and family. This Helgi had been fostered for two winters in the Hebrides, where he seems to have been half-starved (whence his soubriquet), and had to be taken to Ireland to complete his fosterage. He is described as a Christian settler in Iceland, but his creed was a mixed one : nominally a believer in the Founder of Christianity, he nevertheless invoked Thor for aid in sea voyages and difficulties ; THE NORSE OCCUPATION. 15 a hybrid creed which was very common among the Norwegians in the early days of their Christianity. Aude, the widow of Olaf the White, was another emigrant to Iceland ; it is clear, indeed, that Iceland was colonised by its first settlers chiefly from the Hebrides, rather than from Norway. The emigrations of Ketil Flatneb's descendants show that the sovereignty established by that powerful Viking fell to pieces soon after his death. It is probable that his son Helgi and all his relatives were chased out of the Hebrides by Harald Harfager during his punitive expedition ; and thus the dynasty of the flatnosed warrior, which he set up in opposition to the despot of Norway, ended abruptly in the person of his son.
   Page: This record is a Scots history of the Hebrides that says Helgi took over as ruler of the Hebrides after the death of Kitell Bjornsson his father. His sister Aud had a son Thornstein, by her marriage to the King of Ireland. And that sons Helgi and Bjolan while in Norway wanted to go to Iceland, but Kitell insisted on Scotland. (This would give some information on ages and places of birth as well as other information.) Says Helgi's family with him went to Ireland. This makes them more than people in a saga.
   
4. Title: Beolain from Helgi Bjolan, "Clans and Families of Ireland and Scotland"
   Author: Clans and Families of Ireland and Scotland IV. The Kingdom of the Picts: Christianity, Paganism and the Making of Gaelic Scotland pp. 36-37
   Publication: Name: http://www.electricscotland.com/webclans/cairney/36.htm;
   Note: "We should not be surprised, then, to find that Helgi, the son of Ketill Flatnefr, nine-century Norse ruler of the Hebrides, was himself known by the Gaelic nickname of "Bjolan" (Beolain), nicknames being the usual second element in Norse personal names. Nor should we be surprised to find that Helgi Bjolan’s relatives brought Christianity to Iceland in the ninth century. The very survival of Applecross as an abbey on the coast of Viking Ross points to fortuitous Norse patronage. Helgi Bjolan is undoubtedly the namesake of the O’Beolains, since his father was ruler of the Hebrides (Applecross faces these) and his nephew was King of Ross. Beolain is certainly not a typical Gaelic name... The earlier Pictish abbots of Applecross were probably "co-arbs" (bloodrelated successors) of St. Maelrubha in the Pictish mode of matrilineal descent. Since Applecross, as a Celtic tribal abbey, was continuously active throughout the Viking period, we can infer a similar continuity of co-arbial succession among its abbots. Therefore the O’Beolains, despite a patrilineal connection to Helgi Bjolan (which would have served them well at the time), represent continuity with the old line. Surnames in the earlier "0" form came into use in Ireland in the tenth century..." Note: The King of Ross mentioned as nephew was possibly the son of Helgi Bjolan's sister, Aud the Deep-minded, who Conquered Ross and some other parts of Scotland. This is reference to ancestors. There are unknown/missing ancestors on the tree between these earlier ones."
   Page: Helgi Bjolan was in the Hebrides in Scotland and may have left someone there. An Beolan/O Beolan became Abbot of Applecross, ancestor of the O Beolan Earls of Ross, reported in an Applecross History by Ian MacKenzie.
   
5. Title: O'Beolan Connection to Iceland, Douglas Ross post
   Publication: Name: http://www.ross-ter.com/Tales/Vikings/O'BeolanVikingConnection.html;
   Page: Connection to O'Beolan/Bjolan
   
6. Title: King Bjolan progenitor of Ferquhar, Earl of Ross, lay Priest (of Applecross), "History of the Makenzies"
   Author: History Of The Mackenzies by Alexander Mackenzie Part 1 out of 12
   Publication: Name: http://www.fullbooks.com/History-Of-The-Mackenzies1.html;
   Note: "Regarding an engagement which took place between Alexander II. and the Gallowegians, in 1235, the Chronicle of Melrose says, that "at the beginning of the battle the Earl of Ross, called Macintagart, came up and attacked the enemies (of the King) in the rear, and as soon as they perceived this they took to flight and retreated into the woods and mountains, but they were followed up by the Earl and several others, who put many of them to the sword, and harassed them as long as daylight lasted." In 'Celtic Scotland,' Vol. II, p.412, it is stated that the hereditary lay priests of which he was the chief "according to tradition, bore the name of O'Beollan"; and MacVuirich, in the Black Book of Clanranald, says that from Ferquhard was descended Gillapatrick the Red, son of Roderick, and known traditionally as the Red Priest, whose daughter, at a later date, married and carried the monastery lands of Lochalsh and Lochcarron to the Macdonalds of the Isles." In one of the Norse Sagas the progenitor of Ferquhard is designated "King," just the same as the great Somerled and some of his descendants had been called at a later date. Referring to Helgi, son of Ottar, the Landnamabok Saga records that "he made war upon Scotland and carried off prisoner Nidbjorga, the daughter of King Bjolan, and of Kadliner, daughter or Ganga Rolf," or Rollo, who, as already stated, afterwards became the celebrated Earl of Normandy."
   
7. Title: Beollan possible cognate of Bjola, son of Helgi Bjolan Ketillson, "forebears.io/surnames/beollan#meaning"
   Publication: Name: http://forebears.io/surnames/beollan#meaning;
   Note: "BEOLLAN: Irish Beollan, diminutive of beul, 'mouth.' Bjolan was the name of a king of some district in Scotland whose lands were harried by the Norsemen in 886 (Landnamabok, II, 11). The name perhaps appears in the cognomen of Helgi Bjola who went from the Hebrides to Iceland between 874 and 900 (ibid., c. 14). He was son of Ketil Flatnose, and apparently was born in the Hebrides. Beollanus was the father of one of the witnesses to a grant by Ethelred son of Malcolm III to the Keledei of Lochleven, c. 1107 (RPSA., p. 116). About 1222 Beolin the judge witnessed a charter by Randulf de Strathphethain (REB., II, 3). O'Beollan was the family name of Ferchar Mac-in-tagart, created earl of Boss c. 1220. — The Surnames of Scotland (1946) by George Fraser Black (1866-1948)"
   
8. Title: Legacy NFS Source: LANDNAMSMADUR Helgi (Bjola) Ketilsson -
   Author: Ancestral File (R), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998, Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA
   Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2001880049
   
9. Title: -
   Page: See title -- applies to Helgi Bjolan.
   
10. Title: Legacy NFS Source: LANDNAMSMADUR Helgi (Bjola) Ketilsson -
    Author: Ancestral File (TM), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, July 1996 (c), data as of 2 January 1996
    Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2737222795