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	Haakon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Haakon (also spelled Håkon, Hakon or Haco) is the modern Norwegian form of the Old Norwegian masculine first name Håkon meaning "High Son" from há (high) and konr (son).
		Haakon was the name of seven kings of Norway (see Norwegian royalty).
		King Haakon VI of Norway, Haakon VI Magnusson
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Haakon (120 words)

	Haakon IV of Norway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		She claimed he was the illegitimate son of Håkon III of Norway, the leader of the birkebeiner faction in the ongoing civil war against the bagler.
		Håkon was born in territory which was controlled by the bagler faction, and his mother's claim that he was a birkebeiner royal son placed them both in a very dangerous position.
		In 1263 a dispute with the Scottish king concerning the Hebrides, a Norwegian possession, induced Haakon to undertake an expedition to the west of Scotland.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Haakon_IV_of_Norway (1764 words)

	AllRefer.com - Haakon IV (Scandinavian History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Haakon IV (Haakon Haakonsson), 1204–63, king of Norway (1217–63), illegitimate son of Haakon III and grandson of Sverre.
		Haakon Haakonsson overcame the rival claims of Earle Skule (Inge's brother), and in 1223 a great council at Bergen reaffirmed his kingship.
		Haakon, then recognized by Pope Innocent IV, was solemnly crowned in 1247 at Bergen by a papal legate.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/H/Haakon4.html (267 words)

	Norway Travel
		Norway is a long, narrow country on the northwestern edge of the European continent.
		Norway is mostly a high, mountainous plateau covered by bare rock, and it has a relatively small amount of farmland.
		Norway's merchant fleet, one of the largest in the world, is also an important source of income for the country.
	www.northerner.com /norway.html (5274 words)

	History of NORWAY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The story of medieval Scandinavia, after the various regions become Christian in the 10th and 11th century, is of dynasties in Denmark, Norway and Sweden struggling to establish stable kingdoms - with sometimes the added ambition of bringing the other two into a unified realm.
		In 1363, at the age of ten, she is married to Haakon VI, the 23-year-old king of Norway.
		And peasants in Norway are free, whereas their counterparts in Denmark are reduced during the 18th century to conditions of serfdom.
	www.historyworld.net /wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?historyid=ac73 (1795 words)

	boys clothing: European royalty--Norway
		Norway despite its long history, is a relatively young European nations in constitutional terms and the monarchy one of the newest.
		King Haakon VII returned to Norway after the war on June 7, 1945 and he was greeted by a whole nation for his his role in leading the resistace to the NAZIs during the war.
		Crown Prince Haakon was the son of King Harald V and Queem Sonja.
	histclo.com /royal/nor/royal-nor.htm (1835 words)

	Outline of Norway's history
		The Kalmar Union is formed as a result of the dynastic ties between Sweden, Denmark, and Norway, the geographical position of the Scandinavian states, and the growing influence of Germans in the Baltic.
		Norway's Minister of Foreign Affairss Thorvald Stoltenberg is appointed peace negotiator to Bosnia and Herzegovina.
		Norway holds the second referendum concerning EC membership, and a slight majority still holds the NO-vote.
	www.cyberclip.com /Katrine/NorwayInfo/Articles/HistOutline.html (510 words)

	HAAKON IV - Online Information article about HAAKON IV (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		HAAKON IV., surnamed " the Old " (1204–1263), was declared to be the son of Haakon III., who died shortly before the former's See also:
		Norway had known for many years, until in 1263 a dispute with the Scottish king concerning the See also:
		internal strife fostered by Haakon's emissaries, the Icelandic chiefs acknowledged the Norwegian king as overlord in 1262.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /GUI_HAN/HAAKON_IV.html (581 words)

	Kyleakin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The village of Kyleakin [kaɪlˈɑːkɪn] (Scottish Gaelic: Caol Acain) is situated on the east coast of the Isle of Skye in the Inner Hebrides, opposite the northwest Scottish mainland town of Kyle of Lochalsh.
		Its name derives from 'Strait of Haakon' named after the King Haakon IV of Norway whose fleet moored there prior to the Battle of Largs that saw the end of Norwegian rule of the island.
		From 1841 to October 16, 1995 a ferry service operated from Kyleakin to the mainland across the narrow straight of Loch Alsh, until it was replaced by the controversial Skye Bridge.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kyleakin (213 words)

	Castle Maol Walk round the village of Kyleakin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Last night, King Haakon IV of Norway, Mainland Scots and these Islands, arrived in Kyleakin with his fleet of 120 ships.
		The fleet sails South to defend King Haakon's territory on the West Coast against the claims of King Alexander III of Scotland and put an end to the atrocities we have suffered during the Earl of Ross's forays to Skye.
		Rumour is circulating that Princess Mary of Norway (also known as "Saucy Mary"), wife of a MacKinnon Chief, started the dreadful fire which destroyed the entire plantation created by her husband.
	www.btinternet.com /~kyleakin/walk1.htm (288 words)

	ScienceDaily: Haakon iv of norway
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	Haakon IV
		Haakon IV Haakon IV (Haakon Haakonsson), 1204–63, king of Norway (1217–63), illegitimate son of Haakon III and grandson of Sverre.
		Iceland and Greenland were acquired, and important legal reforms were carried out.
		Magnus VI - Magnus VI (Magnus the Law Mender), 1238–80, king of Norway (1263–80), son of Haakon IV.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/people/A0822256.html (235 words)

	BBC - History - Battle of Largs 1263 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		In October 1263, a sizeable fleet of longships surveyed the Scandinavian dominions of King Haakon IV of Norway off the west coast of Scotland.
		On his return to Norway, Haakon took ill at Kirkwall (in the Orkney Islands - also Scandinavian territory) and died.
		In 1266, Haakon's successor, Magnus, signed the Treaty of Perth which surrendered sovereignty of the Western Isles off Scotland to the Scottish crown.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/timelines/britain/mid_battle_largs.shtml (278 words)

	History of ICELAND (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The interference in Icelandic affairs by the Norwegian king Haakon IV leads to bitter internal strife in the island.
		The upshot is that by 1262 Haakon is able to impose his rule, bringing to an end the commonwealth.
		With the union of the crowns of Norway and Denmark (in the person of the young Olaf IV in 1380), Iceland passes to Denmark, the stronger of the two kingdoms, and with it becomes Lutheran in the 16th century.
	www.historyworld.net /wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?historyid=ac03 (812 words)

	Wikinfo \| Haakon VII of Norway
		King Haakon VII of Norway, Christian Frederik Carl Georg Valdemar Axel (August 3, 1872 - September 21, 1957) was the first King of Norway after the dissolution of the personal union with Sweden in 1905.
		Known in his youth as Prince Carl, he was the second son of King Frederick VIII of Denmark, a younger brother of King Christian X of Denmark and a grandson of King Charles IV of Norway (who had also been King of Sweden).
		After a plebiscite confirmed newly-independent Norway as a monarchy, Prince Carl became its first king on November 18, 1905 and was crowned as Haakon VII in Nidaros Cathedral in Trondheim on June 22, 1906.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Haakon_VII_of_Norway (249 words)

	Famous Scots - King Alexander III
		Son of Alexander II, and a direct descendant of the first king of the Scots, Kenneth mac Alpin, Alexander was born at Roxburgh in 1241.
		On the death of his father, Alexander II (who died during an expedition to recover the Hebrides from King Haakon IV of Norway) Alexander III was crowned king at Scone in 1249 when he was eight years old.
		She left Norway to come to Orkney in 1290 but died on the voyage, before reaching Scotland, plunging Scotland into a long period of conflict for survival as an independent country in the "Wars of Independence".
	www.rampantscotland.com /famous/blfamalexander3.htm (315 words)

	Question for Scandinavians [Archive] - Stormfront White Nationalist Community
		His grandson, Haakon IV, was put on the throne by the Birkebeiner in 1217; under him and under Magnus VI (reigned 1263—80) reached its greatest flowering and enjoyed peace and prosperity.
		Clement V and Phillip IV, are hold responsible by modern History, for extinguishing the Crusading ideal, and thus are indirectly responsible for the loss of Byzantium to the Arabo-Turks in 1453.
		A praise to King Philip-Midas IV of France, Boniface stated that the charges brought against the Templars appeared to be true, calling to all the monarchs of Christendom to arrest and torture the Templars in their domains.
	www.stormfront.org /forum/archive/index.php/t-78413 (18745 words)

	MSN Encarta - Iceland
		Iceland was under the archbishopric of Nidaros (now Trondheim), Norway.
		King Håkon IV of Norway, aided by the internal squabbles of Icelandic politicians, ruthlessly exploited the situation.
		This was especially true after the country, along with Norway, passed to the Danish crown in 1380.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761551693_6/Iceland.html (1075 words)

	Basic Timeline Sorted by Age (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Norway attempts to invade Ireland; King Magnus III of Norway is killed and the Norwegians are repelled.
		Alexander III dies; Margaret (Maid of Norway), granddaughter of King Alexander III of Scotland and daughter of King Eric II of Norway, is made Queen of Scotland.
		Margaret (Maid of Norway) dies; Edward I claims sovereignty over Scotland, of thirteen claimants John Baliol is chosen for King of Scotland, his main competitor Robert de Bruce (Robert I or Robert the Bruce's grandfather).
	academic.evergreen.edu /s/stelau06/timelineage.html (4386 words)

	AllRefer.com - Alexander III, king of Scotland (British And Irish History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		He married a daughter of Henry III of England and quarreled with Henry, and later Henry's son Edward I, over the old English claims to overlordship in Scotland.
		King Haakon IV of Norway attempted to drive the Scots from the islands, but a storm battered his ships, and he was defeated in the battle of Largs in the Clyde river.
		Alexander survived his children, and when he died his only near relative was his little granddaughter Margaret Maid of Norway.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/A/Alexand3Sc.html (270 words)

	Inge II of Norway - TheBestLinks.com - TheBestLinks.com:Find or fix a stub, 1205, 1217, 1185, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Inge II of Norway - TheBestLinks.com - TheBestLinks.com:Find or fix a stub, 1205, 1217, 1185,...
		Inge II, Inge II of Norway, TheBestLinks.com:Find or fix a stub, 1205, 1217...
		Inge II (Inge Baardson) (1185 - 1217) was a king of Norway between 1205 and 1217.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Inge_II.html (98 words)

	Timeline Norway
		The King of Norway was killed and Harold’s forces destroyed the Vikings who returned to Norway in 24 of their 300 ships.
		1997 Oct 25, In Norway it was reported that a new 8-mile tunnel outside of Oslo was draining water from nearby lakes at the rate of 10,000 gallons a minute.
		Yeltsin signed an accord with King Harold V of Norway for the dismantling and disposal of 90 nuclear submarines decaying in the Barents Sea.
	timelines.ws /countries/NORWAY.HTML (6188 words)

	King Kenneth I - Part I (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Nordic marauders from modern-day Norway, Sweden and Denmark are collectively known as the Vikings (vik - meaning bay in old Norse), although they never referred to themselves as such.
		In the Northern Isles, Earls ruled Orkney, and were at least in theory subjects to the king of Norway.
		The lands of Caithness and Sutherland in the far North were held under the king of Scots, though with a large measure of independence.
	www.mactamhais.liquidweb.com /historyforum/robertgunn/rg-kk1-2.htm (2553 words)

	Iceland. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The attempt of Snorri Sturluson (1179–1241) to establish the full control of King Haakon IV of Norway over Iceland was a failure; however, Haakon incorporated Iceland into the archdiocese of Trondheim and between 1261 and 1264 obtained acknowledgment of his suzerainty by the Icelanders.
		When, with Norway, Iceland passed (1380) under the Danish crown, the Danes showed even less concern for Icelandic welfare; a national decline (1400–1550) set in.
		Lutheranism was imposed by force (1539–51) over the opposition of Bishop Jon Aresson; the Reformation brought new intellectual activity.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ic/Iceland.html (1601 words)

	Nordic Culture > The Birkebeiner Race, Nordic skiing between Rena and Lillehammer - Scandinavica.com
		Around the year 1200 AD, Norway was practically in a state of civil war, with many rivals fighting for the control of the country.
		During his reign, King Håkon ended the period of civil wars in Norway and brought stability to the country.
		Håkon Håkonsson died in December 1263 in Kirkwall, the Orkney Islands, and was taken back to Norway in 1264.
	www.scandinavica.com /culture/sports/birkebeiner.htm (741 words)

	Haakon VI of Norway
		1340-1380), King of Norway, son of King Magnus Ericsson of Sweden and Norway and Blanche of Namur[?].
		In 1370 they had the son Olav who would succeede his grandfather to the Danish throne in 1376.
		In 1380 King Haakon, the son of King Magnus of Sweden, died and was succeded by his own son King Olav of Denmark.
	www.fastload.org /ha/Haakon_VI_of_Norway.html (142 words)

	Haakon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Haakon is the modern form of a medieval name, Hakon, meaning “Useful” from “hag.”
		Haakon, was the name of several early kings of Norway.
		It remained in use in Scandinavia and was a royal name, the name of seven kings.
	www.geocities.com /edgarbook/names/h/haakon.html (84 words)

	Page 15
		Above are the names of the provinces [counties] known in Norway during the time of the Vikings.
		The fjord known as Aurlandsfjorden is the arm of Songnefjord, the longest fjord in Norway.
		The family farm Twedtenes no longer exsists and the land is presently a part of the city of Bergen.
	www.remmick.org /Hubert.Vikings/Page15.html (587 words)

	Vikings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		In Scotland it ended with the battle of Largs when Alexander III defeated Haakon IV of Norway effectively ended the Norse threat in 1263.
		Rather than a large defined army they were individual raiding parties made up of farmers etc. working on their own.
		As they became assimilated in their new lands, they became farmers and traders as well as rulers and warriors.
	www.tartanthemes.com /vikings.htm (285 words)

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