Description
This window in Lerwick Town Hall in Shetland depicts the early tirteenth-century King of Norway, Haakon Haakonsson (Hákon Hákonarson, Håkon Håkonsson, Haakon the Old), who died in Orkney and is buried in St Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall. The other individual depicted is Rognvald Kali Kolsson (d. 1158), also known as Rognvald the Crusader. He invaded Orkney in 1135, and promoted the cult of St Magnus with the building of the Cathedral in Kirkwall. He joined a crusade to the Holy Land in 1150. More information about the window at http://www.shetland.gov.uk/lerwick-town-hall/Hakon-Rognvald-Window.asp