Halfdan Hvitbeinn was the son of Olof Trätälja of the House of Yngling according to Heimskringla.
His father was sacrificed to Odin by the Swedish settlers in Värmland because of a famine. Some Swedes, however, realised that the famine was brought by overpopulation and not by the fact that the king had been neglecting his religious duties.
Consequently, they resolved to cross the Ed Forest and settle in Norway and happened to end up in Soleyar where they killed king Sölve and took Halfdan prisoner. The Swedish expatriates elected Halfdan king as he was the son of their old king, Olof. Halfdan subjugated all of Soleyar and took his army into Romerike and subjugated that province as well.
Halfdan was to become a great king, who married Åsa, the daughter of king Eystein, the ruler of Oppland and Hedmark. They had two sons, Öystein Halfdansson and Gudröd.
Halfdan conquered a large part of Hedemark, Toten, Hadeland and a part of Westfold. When his brother Ingjald Olofsson died, he inherited Wermelandia. Halfdan died of old age in Toten and was transported to Westfold where he was buried under a mound.
Halfdan then ruled Sweden for twenty years until he died in Uppsala of sickness and was buried in a mound.
In the Saga of Hrolf Kraki, this Fródi is Halfdan's younger brother but in the Latin epitome to the Skjöldunga Saga the younger brother, here a half-brother, is named Ingjalldus and this Ingjalldus is later father of a son named Frothi.
Harold leaves two sons behind named Harald and Halfdan, and the story of their vegeance on their uncle Fródi for killing their father Harald is almost identical to that found in Norse texts about Hróar and Helgi's vengeance on their uncle Fródi for killing their father Halfdan.
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