Helgeland

Helgeland (mean age Hålogaland ) is a landscape in northern Norway, which now covers the southern part of the Nordland Fylkes to Saltfjellet. The region has 78,400 inhabitants and an area of 17,936 km ². The region has about 15,000 islands

In the Middle Ages Hålogaland designated the whole territory north of Trøndelag and was before the Christianization of an independent kingdom, which also included the greater part of Troms and at times up to the dominated by seed region ( Finnmark, Swedish Lapland, northern Finland and Northwest Russia ) covered. Hålogaland occupies a prominent place in the sagas. Probably the most famous inhabitants Hålogalands was the navigator and merchant Ottar, found a place in Alfred the Great's translation of Orosius world history of its report on its homeland.

The name comes from the same root as sacred not as it already Adam of Bremen claimed, but by a popular name háleygir. Snorri Sturluson's Edda In younger it is derived from a mythical king Holgi.

The recent form of the name is found from 1380, the elder persists in the name of the dioceses Sør- Hålogaland ( Nordland) and North Hålogaland ( Troms and Finnmark ) and on behalf of the Supreme Court ( Hålogaland lagmannsrett ), the northern of the three provinces is responsible Nordland, Troms and Finnmark as well as Spitsbergen.

In Helgeland was at Bratland and the island Aldra a station of the Omega radio navigation system. Near Bratland is also the Navy transmitter JXN that a wire antenna that has been stretched over a fjord, used as once the Omega transmitter and antenna.