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	HALFDAN THE BLACK SAGA
		Halfdan grew up there, and soon became stout and strong; and, by reason of his fl hair, was called Halfdan the Black.
		HALFDAN'S MARRIAGE Halfdan the Black got a wife called Ragnhild, a daughter of Harald Gulskeg (Goldbeard), who was a king in Sogn.
		Halfdan the Black was driving from a feast in Hadeland, and it so happened that his road lay over the lake called Rand.
	www.sacred-texts.com /neu/heim/03halfdn.htm (2284 words)

	Halfdan the Black - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Halfdan the Black Gudrødsson (820 – 860CE)(Old Norse: Hálfdan svarti, Norwegian: Halvdan Svarte) was the father of the first King of Norway Harald I and of the House of Yngling.
		Halfdan's first wife was Ragnhild, daughter of King Harald Gulskeg (Goldbeard) of Sogn.
		Halfdan died when he fell through the ice of lake Randsfjorden and drowned.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Halfdan_the_Black (493 words)

	OMACL: Heimskringla: Halfdan the Black Saga
		Halfdan was a year old when his father was killed, and his mother Asa set off immediately with him westwards to Agder, and set herself there in the kingdom which her father Harald had possessed.
		Earl Atle Mjove (the Slender), who was a friend of King Halfdan, came to him from Gaular; and the king set him over the Sogn district, to judge in the country according to the country's laws, and collect scat upon the king's account.
		Now King Halfdan was in Hedemark at the Yule entertainments when he heard this news; and one morning early, when the king was dressed, he called to him Harek Gand, and told him to go over to Hadeland, and bring him Ragnhild, Sigurd Hjort's daughter.
	omacl.org /Heimskringla/halfdan.html (2285 words)

	Home of the Heathen - Halfdan the Black's Saga
		Halfdan was a year old when his father was killed, and his mother Asa set off immediately with him westwards to Agder, and set herself there in the kingdom which her father Harald had possessed.
		Halfdan the Black got a wife called Ragnhild, a daughter of Harald Gulskeg (Goldbeard), who was a king in Sogn.
		Earl Atle Mjove (the Slender), who was a friend of King Halfdan, came to him from Gaular; and the king set him over the Sogn district, to judge in the country according to the country's laws, and collect scat upon the king's account.
	members.tripod.com /heathen_home/heimskringla/halfdan.html (2267 words)

	Heimskringla/Harald Harfager's Saga - Wikisource
		Halfdan the White and Halfdan the Black went out on an expedition, and plundered in the East sea, and had a battle in Eistland, where Halfdan the White fell.
		Eirik, Harald's son, was fostered in the house of the herse Thorer, son of Hroald, in the Fjord district.
		Two years after this, Halfdan the Black died suddenly at a feast in Throndhjem and the general report was that Gunhild had bribed a witch to give him a death-drink.
	en.wikisource.org /wiki/Heimskringla/Harald_Harfager's_Saga (10459 words)

	Halfdan the Black
		Halfdan grew up there, and soon became stout and strong; and, because of his fl hair, was called Halfdan the Black.
		Halfdan the Black took a wife called Ragnhild, a daughter of Harald Gulskeg (Goldbeard), who was a king in Sogn.
		Halfdan the Black was returning from a feast in Hadeland, and his road lay over the lake called Rand.
	www.orme.org.uk /halfdan_the_black.html (2112 words)

	Heimskringla/Ynglinga Saga - Wikisource
		Halfdan was a son of Solve Solvarson, who was a son of Solve the Old, who first settled on these islands.
		Ingjald, Halfdan's brother, was king of Vermeland; but after his death King Halfdan took possession of Vermeland, raised scatt from it, and placed earls over it as long as he lived.
		He was called Halfdan the Mild, but the Bad Entertainer; that is to say, he was reported to be generous, and to give his men as much gold as other kings gave of silver, but he starved them in their diet.
	en.wikisource.org /wiki/Heimskringla/Ynglinga_Saga (11866 words)

	Norse Sagas - The Gold Scales
		Halfdan the Black got a wife called Ragnhild, a daughter of Harald Gulskeg (Goldbeard), who was a king in Sogn.
		Earl Atle Mjove (the Slender), who was a friend of King Halfdan, came to him from Gaular; and the king set him over the Sogn district, to judge in the country according to the country's laws, and collect scat on the king's account.
		King Halfdan was a wise man, a man of truth and uprightness – who made laws, observed them himself, and obliged others to observe them.
	oaks.nvg.org /hk2.html (2362 words)

	Chapter 40. The Nature of Osiris. § 1. Osiris a Corn-god. Frazer, Sir James George. 1922. The Golden Bough
		Further, we read of a Norwegian king, Halfdan the Black, whose body was cut up and buried in different parts of his kingdom for the sake of ensuring the fruitfulness of the earth.
		All these barrows are called Halfdan’s barrows.” It should be remembered that this Halfdan belonged to the family of the Ynglings, who traced their descent from Frey, the great Scandinavian god of fertility.
		For in Egypt the oxen which were sacrificed had also to be red; a single fl or white hair found on the beast would have disqualified it for the sacrifice.
	www.bartleby.com /196/88.html (1456 words)

	Halfdan the Old - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Halfdan the Old (Old Norse Hálfdanr gamli and Hálfdanr inn gamli) was an ancient, legendary king from whom descended many of the most notable lineages of legend.
		Though Halfdan is himself called a Skjöldung in verse 14, in verse 16 the Skjöldungs are named instead as one of the families that sprang from Halfdan's marriage with Álmveig.
		Bragi the Old [Bragi gamli] was king of Valdres and father of Agnar, father of Álf, father of Eirík (Eiríkr), father of Hild (Hildr) the mother of Halfdan the Generous, the father of Gudröd (Guðrǫðr) the Hunter, father of Halfdan the Black, father of Harald Fairhair.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Halfdan_the_Old (2318 words)

	HARALD HARFAGER'S SAGA
		Halfdan the White and Halfdan the Black went out on an expedition, and plundered in the East sea, and had a battle in Eistland, where Halfdan the White fell.
		Eirik, Harald's son, was fostered in the house of the herse Thorer, son of Hroald, in the Fjord district.
		Two years after this, Halfdan the Black died suddenly at a feast in Throndhjem and the general report was that Gunhild had bribed a witch to give him a death-drink.
	www.sacred-texts.com /neu/heim/04harfgr.htm (10641 words)

	OMACL: Heimskringla: The Ynglinga Saga
		King Halfdan died in his bed at Upsal, and was buried there in a mound; and King On returned to Upsal when he was sixty years of age.
		Halfdan was a son of Solve Solvarson, who was a son of Solve the Old, who first settled on these islands.
		He was called Halfdan the Mild, but the Bad Entertainer; that is to say, he was reported to be generous, and to give his men as much gold as other kings gave of silver, but he starved them in their diet.
	sunsite.berkeley.edu /OMACL/Heimskringla/ynglinga.html (12955 words)

	Norwegian Ruling Families -
		Halfdan was the son of King Gudrod the Hunter and Åsa, daughter of King Harald of Agder.
		Gudrod died when Halfdan was a year old and his mother took him with her to Agder, where he was fostered by Olver Spake.
		Harald was the son of Halfdan the Black and his wife Ragnhild, the daughter of King Harald Goldbeard of Sogn.
	famous.adoption.com /famous/norwegian-ruling-families.html (1208 words)

	Race RR
		Although most sources say the twins were the sons of Hjörr's Norwegian queen, one passage in Landnámabók says the king had brought back a captive princess from a war in Bjarmaland (now Finland), and the dark-skinned boys were born to this woman.
		The term "svartr" (fl) is commonly ascribed in the sagas to people with dark coloring, contrasted with "hvítr" (white) for those of fair complexion and features.
		Svartr, "Black" or "the Black," was a common byname in early Iceland, usually referring to people of pure or mixed Celtic blood.
	marklander.ravenbanner.com /racerr.html (1405 words)

	NORWAY
		Halfdan Auri Prodigus Cibique Tenacissimus" was the son of "
		Halfdan Auri Prodigus Cibique Tenacissimus", recording that he was betrayed by his wife who bribed one of his squires to murder him
		HALFDAN "Swarti/the Black" ([830]-Rykinsvik [870], bur Ringerike, Ringarik, Hedmark and Vestfold).
	fmg.ac /Projects/MedLands/NORWAY.htm (1814 words)

	Red Hair
		Note: The largest Black population outside of Africa resides in India, and people in the northern part of India are of mixed derivations.
		Halfdan the Black was the first Africoid king to unite Norway.
		The term Hyksos has come to refer to the whole of these people who ruled Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period of Egypt's ancient history, and had to be driven out of the land by the last ruler of the 17th Dynasty and the earliest ruler of Egypt's New Kingdom.
	www.stewartsynopsis.com /red_hair.htm (2794 words)

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		Harald (1) was but ten years old when he succeeded his father (Halfdan the Black).
		King Harald now ordered a levy, and gathered a great force, with which he proceeded westward to Orkney; and when Earl Einar heard that King Harald was come, he fled over to Caithness.
		Earl Hakon Grjotgardson of Hlader had the whole rule over Throndhjem when King Harald was anywhere away in the country; and Hakon stood higher with the king than any in the country of Throndhjem.
	www.lib.umd.edu /ETC/ReadingRoom/Nonfiction/Sturlson/Heimskringla/2 (10631 words)

	trinicenter.com - African presence in ancient and medieval Europe
		What is important is the fact that this article unwittingly brought to light the history of the profound African presence in ancient and medieval Europe that is still ignored and underplayed in the history books and in the media.
		Now many researchers of European history are for one reason or the other Eurocentric in their outlook to the point where they only see people of a particular phenotype inhabiting Europe in ancient times.
		The famous Hun, Attila, was described by 6th century writer Jordanes as having a "flat nose and a swarthy complexion showing evidence of his origin" [it is known that the Mongolian Huns had fls in their tribes].
	www.trinicenter.com /historicalviews/14062001.htm (781 words)

	Northvegr - Of the Kings of the Uplands
		Eystein, son of Halfdan Whitebone, was king in Raumariki.
		Asa the Ambitious went north to Agdir with Halfdan, her son, who was a winter old, and she held the kingdom that her father had owned.
		Halfdan grew up with Asa, his mother, and he was soon a big man, strong and fl-haired, and so he was called Halfdan the Black.
	www.northvegr.org /lore/oldheathen/016.php (857 words)

	Harald I - LoveToKnow 1911
		HARALD I. (850-933), surnamed Haarfager (of the beautiful hair), first king over Norway, succeeded on the death of his father Halfdan the Black in A.D. 860 to the sovereignty of several small and somewhat scattered kingdoms, which had come into his father's hands through conquest and inheritance and lay chiefly in south-east Norway (see Norway).
		In 866 he made the first of a series of conquests over the many petty kingdoms which then composed Norway; and in 872, after a great victory at Hafrsfjord near Stavanger, he found himself king over the whole country.
		This page was last modified 10:47, 3 Sep 2006.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Harald_I (257 words)

	Road to Hel - THE CULT OF THE DEAD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		This Olaf, it may be noticed, is the brother of Hálfdan the Black.
		In many cases worship is stated to be given not specifically to a dead man, as in the instances above, hut to a burial mound.
		It has been shown that the howe plays an important part in the worship of Hálfdan the Black and Olaf Geirstaðaálfr, so that Flateyjarbók indeed goes so far as to say ‘men sacrificed and believed in them’—that is in the howes of Hálfdan.
	www.normanniireiks.org /guilds_lore/lore/roadtohel/chapter_04.htm (6845 words)

	Harald I of Norway Summary
		On the death of his father, Halfdan the Black in 860, Harold succeeded to the sovereignty of several small and somewhat scattered kingdoms which had come into his father's hands through conquest and inheritance.
		He succeeded, on the death of his father Halfdan the Black Gudrødsson in A.D., to the sovereignty of several small, and somewhat scattered kingdoms in Vestfold, which had come into his father's hands through conquest and inheritance, and lay chiefly in southeast Norway.
		860 AD at the death of Halfdan the Black.
	www.bookrags.com /Harald_I_of_Norway (1217 words)

	Erik the Viking (1989) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Goofs: Anachronisms: Halfdan the Black's men are using crossbows in one of the last scenes.
		The story, on the other hand, was pedestrian and not very engrossing, but I was laughing pretty hard most of the time so the story became just a background aspect of this very funny film anyways.
		John Cleese has a hilarious cameo as Halfdan the Black who runs a torture chamber in his spare time.
	imdb.com /title/tt0097289 (396 words)

	Table of Contents and Excerpt, Snorri Sturluson, Heimskringla
		Since the heroic age of the mass migration to Iceland—oversimplified as being due only to the tyranny of King Harald Fairhair—took place about the same time as the introduction of writing, traditions of that time no doubt were in annalistic form, fixed on parchment by clerics, and of course in Latin.
		Rognvald was the son of Óláf Geirstathaálf, the brother of Hálfdan the Black.
		In this lay are mentioned thirty of his forebears, together with an account of how each of them died and where they are buried.
	www.utexas.edu /utpress/excerpts/exsnohei.html (7540 words)

	Gudröd (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Gudröd the Hunter was the son of Halfdan the Mild of the House of Yngling, according to Heimskringla, a collection of sagas from thirteenth century Iceland.
		He raped her and she gave him a son named Halfdan who would be called Halfdan the Black.
		In the fall when Halfdan was a year old, Gudröd was having at a feast in Stiflesund.
	home.comcast.net /~desilva22/Gudrod.htm (205 words)

	Fantasy Films 101.11 1989's "Erik the Viking" \| Gamegrene.com
		What none of them see is the plot being brewed up between Halfdan the Black (John Cleese), Loki (Antony Sher) and Keitel Blacksmith (Gary Cady), all of whom realize that if Erik succeeds in ending Ragnarok, their war-mongering days will be over.
		Of course, Halfdan slips away on a lifeboat, but the battle is won nevertheless, and Erik is awarded the Horn Resounding as thanks for saving the land of Hy-Brasil.
		Halfdan the Black, a horde of dog-faced Viking warriors, and the deceitful Loki add up for a wicked bunch.
	www.gamegrene.com /node/56 (4497 words)

	Sinking Viking Ship?
		Mound at the Stein in Hole farm in the Ringerike district of southern Norway may hold the burial ship of Halfdan the Black.
		Christian Keller of the University of Oslo says the flatland location of the Ringerike mound is similar to that of the Gokstad and Oseberg burial mounds to the south, both of which held ships.
		The Ringerike mound may hold the burial of Halfdan the Black, who, according to Scandinavian sagas, was the father of Norway's first king, Harold Fairhair.
	www.archaeology.org /9801/newsbriefs/viking.html (417 words)

	Ken Larson's Genealogy Research - pafg153 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		Harold Fairhair, Norse Harald Hårfagre or Haarfager, c.850-c.933, first king of Norway, son of Halfdan the Black, king of Vestfold (SE Norway).
		Konge Halvdan Svarte (the Black) of Trøndelagen Haraldsen
		He is also noted as Halfdan the Black, King of Vestfold.
	www.geocities.com /klarson_esq/pafg153.htm (929 words)

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