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	Harald I of Norway
		Their numbers were increased by malcontents from Norway, who resented Harald's claim of rights of taxation over lands, which the possessors appear to have previously held in absolute ownership.
		At last Harald was forced to make an expedition to the west to clear the islands and Scottish mainland of Vikings.
		Harald I was the grandfather of Harald II.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ha/Harald_Fairhair.html (268 words)

	Heimskringla/Harald Harfager's Saga - Wikisource
		Eirik, Harald's son, was fostered in the house of the herse Thorer, son of Hroald, in the Fjord district.
		Harald died on a bed of sickness in Hogaland (A.D. 933), and was buried under a mound at Haugar in Karmtsund.
		Harald Harfager was, according to the report of men~of knowledge, or remarkably handsome appearance, great and strong, and very generous and affable to his men.
	en.wikisource.org /wiki/Heimskringla/Harald_Harfager's_Saga (10459 words)

	Harald I of Norway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In red is the kingdom inherited by Harald Fairhair.
		The yellow areas are petty kingdoms, the purple is the domain of the earls of Lade, orange is the domain the earls of Møre.
		Harald died in 933, having had eight wives and 23 children.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Harald_Fairhair (768 words)

	Harald I of Norway Summary
		Harald Fairhair or Harald Finehair (Old Norse Haraldr hárfagri) (c.
		Harald was therefore induced to take a vow not to cut nor comb his hair until he was sole king of Norway, and that ten years later, he was justified in trimming it; whereupon he exchanged the epithet "Shockhead" or "Tanglehair" for the one by which he is usually known.
		In 866, Harald made the first of a series of conquests over the many petty kingdoms which then composed Norway, including Värmland in Sweden, which had sworn allegiance to the Svea king Erik Eymundsson.
	www.bookrags.com /Harald_I_of_Norway (1217 words)

	Northvegr - Landnámabók
		Harald Fairhair was the first to put an end to this state of things, by reducing it under one head and making a kingdom of it, which it has continued to be ever since.
		Harald's birth year, death year, and chronology in general are known only by inference, but by the latest reckoning his birth is put down at 850, he began, under tutelage doubtless, his reign in 860, and died about the year 933 of our era, a man of 83.
		King Harald sent his messengers to a certain maiden called Gyda, the daughter of King Eric of Hordaland, to ask her in marriage.
	www.northvegr.org /lore/landnamabok/002.php (1843 words)

	Medieval Scandinavian Kingdoms (A
		Harald Bluetooth professed Christianity, and was baptized, along with his wife and his son Sweyn, by a German monk named Poppa, who also converted a considerable portion of the Danish people.
		Harald Bluetooth lost his life in battle in 985, and was succeeded on the throne of Denmark by his son Sweyn I., who invaded England in 994, during the reign of Ethelred the Unready, and conquered a large portion of that kingdom.
		Harald Farfager, or Harald Fairhair, the founder of the Kingdom of Norway, reigned from A. 863 to 933.
	www.shsu.edu /~his_ncp/MedScan.html (4503 words)

	Thirteenth International Saga Conference
		When the name of the founding father was chosen for the present Harald, born in 1937 as the first Norwegian-born prince in modern times, few would have doubted the basic facts of Harald Fairhair’s personal and political career, as described by the great saga writer Snorri Sturluson (d.
		While maintaining that the idea of Harald Fairhair’s feudal pyramid must be inspired by the English model, I hesitate to venture a firm date as to when this might have been added to his legend, only that it could not have happened before the reign of King Canute.
		Harald's 'reception' in the sagas is highly variable, from Fagrskinna's faithful royalism and Snorri's reserved admiration to the all-out vilification of Hemings þáttr.
	www.dur.ac.uk /medieval.www/sagaconf/helgi.htm (2729 words)

	Schulers Books (Poems and Songs - 38/44)
		Harald Hardruler was a half brother of Olaf the Saint.
		His defeat in 986 of the Jomsborg vikings, allies of King Harald Bluetooth of Denmark, in a naval engagement at Hjörungavaag, a bay in western Norway, was the greatest naval battle ever fought in that country.
		Harald was a good-natured, but weak and ignorant man, entirely controlled by his chieftains, who persuaded him to have Sigurd imprisoned, with the intention of killing him.
	www.schulers.com /books/bj/p/Poems_and_Songs/Poems_and_Songs38.htm (1776 words)

	Orkneyjar - Viking Orkney - The Beginning of the Earldom
		It seems likely that Harald's voyage was an literary invention, based on an Icelandic historical tradition that King Harald was the reason for the exodus of Norwegians from their home country - an event the Icelanders saw as heralding the discovery and eventual colonisation of Iceland.
		Harald may well have been responsible for some later emigrations from Norway, but there is no way he could have been the cause of the earlier movements to Orkney.
		It is tempting to think of the Saga's Orkney based "Vikings" were perhaps political opponents of Harald, whose forceful subjugation of Norway had dispossessed a number of Norwegian landowners.
	www.orkneyjar.com /history/vikingorkney/earldom.htm (694 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Harald
		Harold V or Harald V, 1937-, king of Norway (1991-); son of Olaf V.
		Harold I or Harold Fairhair, Norse Harald Haarfager, c.850-c.933, first king of Norway, son of Halfdan the Black, king of Vestfold (SE Norway).
		Harold III or Harold Hardrada, Norse Harald Harðráði [Harold stern council], d.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Harald (514 words)

	Vikings and Feudal Europe 900-1095 by Sanderson Beck
		Harald Fairhair appointed earls to collect fines and taxes, from which he took one-third, and the earls became rich.
		In old age Harald Fairhair had the son Haakon, whom he sent to be foster son of King Athelstan in England.
		Harald Fairhair's successor Erik was called Bloodaxe because he killed several of his brothers.
	www.san.beck.org /AB17-FeudalEurope.html (23987 words)

	Reimert Family History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Harald "Fairhair" I was born in 858 in Hedemark, Norway.
		Harald "Fairhair" I and Svanhild were married before 875 in Norway.
		Harald "The Red Beard" was born about 750 in Vestagder, Norway.
	www.reimert.org /genealogy/database/b48.htm (538 words)

	OMACL: Heimskringla: Harald Harfager's Saga
		Harald (1) was but ten years old when he succeeded his father (Halfdan the Black).
		HARALD AT A FEAST OF THE PEASANT AKE.
		King Harald heard that the vikings, who were in the West sea in winter, plundered far and wide in the middle part of Norway; and therefore every summer he made an expedition to search the isles and out-skerries (1) on the coast.
	omacl.org /Heimskringla/harfager.html (10642 words)

	Synopsis: HALFDAN THE BLACK, copyright 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Harald Fairhair become the first high king to unite the entire territory of Norway as one nation under one great ruler.
		The story begins as ten year old Harald is the first one to see that his father, the mighty king and successful military chieftain, King Halfdan the Black has come home from a trading trip.
		Young Harald and his mother Ragnhild, the Rose of Ringerike are seen and heard from all through the story in the many domestic scenes between the battles and voyages.
	www.angelfire.com /md/sufimusfadharidas/Synopsis/index.html (3454 words)

	Norway - Questions, Answers, Fun Facts, Information
		Harald died in 933AD at the ripe old age of 83.
		Haakon Magnus is the son of King Harald V and Queen Sonja and he is the next in line as heir to the throne.
		King Harald V came to the throne in 1991 after the death of his father King Olav V. What is the name of the country Norway gained its final independence from in 1905?
	www.funtrivia.com /en/Geography/Norway-3871.html (1399 words)

	Maximilian Genealogy Master Database 2000 - pafg973 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		Harald I Fairhair of Norway HALFDANSSON was born 858 and died 934.
		Harald I Fairhair of Norway HALFDANSSON [Parents] was born 858.
		Eirik I Bloodaxe of Norway HARALDSSON was born 885 and died 954.
	www.peterwestern.f9.co.uk /maximilia/pafg973.htm (172 words)

	Harald I of Norway Info - Bored Net - Boredom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Harald I of Norway Info - Bored Net - Boredom
		ca 931), surnamed Fairhair (Hårfagre, of the beautiful/long hair), first king (872-931) over Norway, succeeded on the death of his father Halfdan the Black Godfreyson in A.D. 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.
		Harald died in 931, having had eight wives and 23 children.
	www.borednet.com /e/n/encyclopedia/h/ha/harald_i_of_norway.html (288 words)

	Erik Anundsson
		When the winter arrived Harald learnt that the Swedish king was in Vermland, after which he crossed the Ed forest and ordered the people to arrange a feast in his tribute.
		Harald Fairhair put his ships alongside the stakes and plundered and burnt everything he could reach.
		Harald then proclaimed himself the ruler of all land north of Göta älv and north and west of lake Vänern and placed Jarl Guthorm to defend the region with a large force.
	www.delmars.com /family/perrault/7217.htm (866 words)

	Deb Nelson Gourley Presents: Astri My Astri Publishing
		Harald var en av mange småkonger i vikingtidens Norge.
		Da Harald hørte dette, bestemte han seg for å samle Norge til ett rike, og sa at han ikke skulle klippe håret før det var fullført.
		Ved Hafrsfjord, ikke langt fra der Stavanger ligger i dag, vant Harald det endelige slaget.
	www.astrimyastri.com /featured-kings.php (593 words)

	Northvegr - A History of the Vikings
		Even in Harald's old age the trouble was beginning, and it was not long after his death that the unity of his realm was seriously threatened.
		The sagas make much of the heavy taxation imposed by Harald and of his confiscation of odel property; but it is doubtful if he really did collect taxes on a large scale or everywhere turn the freeholders into his tenants by taking absolute possession of the land.
		But that a Norwegian aristocracy, discontented and resentful, materially swelled during Harald's reign the flood of adventurers and exiles who sought homes in foreign lands and formed the bulk of the emigrants from Norway in the late ninth century is an axiom of every history book.
	www.northvegr.org /lore/history_viking/028.php (749 words)

	shipburials
		We don’t know if Harald Finehair settled down at Avaldsnes because he had the right of inheritance to the area, or if he came as a conqueror.
		But king Harald surely must have known to use the structures of power and alliances that already were established around the Karmsund.
		Harald Finehair settled down at Avaldsnes after the battle in Hafrsfjord around 870, he died at Avaldsnes, and he was buried somewhere in the area around 930.
	www.karmoyped.no /avaldpros/forsking/shipburials1.htm (690 words)

	Orkneyjar - Viking Orkney - The Norse Colonisation
		Written centuries after the initial takeover of Orkney, the Icelandic sagas lay the blame for the exodus from Norway firmly at the feet of the Norwegian King Harald Fairhair.
		But, although political pressure from Harald may account for later emigration, the original Norse period of raiding and settlement was at least a century before the influence of King Harald.
		It explains that the Norwegian king, Harald Harfagri (Fairhair) sailed westwards to deal with Vikings who, after raiding Norway throughout the summer, were making Orkney their base.
	www.orkneyjar.com /history/vikingorkney/index.html (712 words)

	Norway
		By the end of this century King Harald the Fairhair had become king of all of Norway by virtue of his victory in the Battle of Hafrsfjord (near Stavanger) in 892.
		Claims to the throne were constantly being put forth by the leading families in the different regions, and being a possible contender for the crown would prove to be a very dangerous proposition.
		Some of the Viking chieftains had come in contact with Christianity on their forays into Europe, and had been baptized, but it was a descendant of Harald Fairhair, King Olav Trygvason, that is credited with bringing Christianity to western and northern Norway.
	www.angelfire.com /fang/snaggle/chap_XV.htm (2883 words)

	NAHA // Norwegian-American Studies
		During the reign of King Harald Fairhair (860-933) autocracy was placed on a permanent basis, but many of the leading chieftains of his realm chose exile rather than to give up their cherished rights, and thus Norway lost many of its noblest and most enterprising families.
		According to Snorri Sturluson's Heimskringla, King Harald Fairhair demanded an oath of allegiance from his nobles, and those who refused to give it were forced into exile.
		There the emigrants were near enough to Norway to attack Harald's territory from time to time, but finally, as he grew too strong for these attacks, the exiles were forced to seek a permanent home.
	www.stolaf.edu /naha/pubs/nas/volume03/vol3_09.htm (7094 words)

	Amazon.com: "Harald Greycloak": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		It was a prize, sometimes only half glimpsed, and never achieved, for which Harald Greycloak and his banesman Gold-Harald the Dane, jarl Hakon, Olaf Tryggvason, and St....
		Harald Bluetooth involved himself in Norwegian politics on the side of his nephews, the sons of Erik Bloodaxe, and supported Harald Greycloak.
		Harald spent much of his reign Dying unsuccessfully to gain control of the Trondelag,...
	www.amazon.com /phrase/Harald-Greycloak (492 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.
		It is from these two collections that Snorri has lifted bodily some of the most telling pages of the sagas of Harald Sigurtharson and the kings succeeding him—always improving and clarifying their accounts.
		At the court of King Harald there were skalds, and men still remember their poems and the poems about all the kings who have since his time ruled in Norway; and we gathered most of our information from what we are told in those poems which were recited before the chieftains themselves or their sons.
	www.utexas.edu /utpress/excerpts/exsnohei.html (7540 words)

	! Assembly of The Elder Troth - Day of Rememberance for Jarl Hakon !
		Jarl Hakon was a dedicated heathen who fought against the tyrannical King Harald Fairhair of Norway and his sons, and actually regained ground lost to the Christianisation of his country.
		At the urging of his nymphomaniacal mother, Harald and his brothers destroyed heathen temples, murdered chieftains, and levied exorbitant taxes.
		Harald tried to invade Norway, but was thrown back.
	www.aetaustralia.org /hakon.htm (900 words)

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