Order of Garter - Titles (in Norway)

[Rita Winston]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., pengolodh_sc at y... wrote:

> Jarl was in Norway the term for the highest vassal and officer of
> the crown all through the viking- and middle-ages, and it was a 
> hereditary term, unless the King intervened.  If I'm not mistaken,
> the authority of a jarl is somewhat similar to the authority of a 
> Lord High Sheriff in England in teh same time-period.  The lords of
> the Orkneys and of Shetland were both ranked "jarl".  The title 
> fell out of use in Norway, as the country lost its independence.

Interesting that the word 'jarl' in England had already deteriorated 
even before it was in England (presumably while it was in the 
Danelaw).

> It would have to be before 1824 (eighteen-twenty-four), as that was 
> the year nobility was abolished in Norway.  Besides, I suspect you 
> must be thinking of a different country, 

I probably was thinking of Denmark. Sorry.

About "Lord Newton": in most of USA, one is allowed to call oneself 
by ANY name as long as one does not intend fraud.