The name Storth is an old Norse name for a woody place.
There is something grimly appropriate, further, in the fact that 'Ingjaldr, remained a common Norse name for centuries.
Of those evolutions of the original Norse name Skerton is the modern version.
The Norse name may have been Fladdaidh meaning "flat island".
Its Norse name means Home on a gravel beach.
Rogaland is the Norse name of the region - revived in modern times.
Alternatively, it could derive from the less frequent Norse name Hrodgeir.
The first element is finn(ar), the Norse name for the Sámi people.
It seems on the whole likely that such pre-urban settlements gave the country its Norse name of Gardariki.
The Norse name certainly describes the hilltop.