Nordaland

Nordaland is a jarldom located in northern Norden.

Geography
Nordaland is the northernmost unified faction in the known world. Due to it's cold harshness, Nordaland is sparsly populated. Most of it's habitants live along the south-western coast, or in Isfjorden. To the south-west lies the Great Ocean, and to the north-west lies the ocean Nordhav. To the north lies Ødelandene, to the north-east lies the ocean Ishav, and to the east it borders Runskog. To the south it is sapareted from Fjordheim by Sivjefjord, and by the western mountains of Nordfjell. Nordfjell is an extremly harsh montainrange, with only the valleys of Dragedal and Nordal going through it. Nordfjell also contain the hightest mountain of the known world: Kvittind.

The border between Nordaland and Ødelandene is a little loose, but is generally concidered being the border between human population and unhabited lands. Sometimes, however, people will make settlements further north than what is consicidered Nordaland, and thus claim they have exemption from taxes. The Jarls of Nordaland have generally dealt with this by sending armed men northwards to explain that they are still on the lands of Nordaland, or that the border have expanded due to their settlement.

History
The Second War of Krøyland