General Notes

King of Norway

[from Ancestry.com 81120.GED, referrences Larousse Biographical Dictionary, p665]

Harald I Halfdansson, king of Norway, was the first ruler to claim sovereignty over all Norway. The son of Halfdan the Black (King of Vestfold), he fought his way to power with a crushing defeat of his opponents at the navel battle of Hafursfjord, off Stavanger about 890. His authoritarian rule caused many of the old aristocratic families to emigrate west to the Orkneys, Hebrides and Ireland, and to newly settled Iceland. Harald made several punitive expeditions across the North Sea to subdue his former subjects and impose Norwegian rule ofer the Northern and Western Isles of Scotland. When he was nearly 80 years old in 942, he abdicated in favor of his eldest son, Erick Blood-Axe and died three years later in 945.

King Of Norway/Fairhair
7 Feet Tall

King of Norway

[from Ancestry.com 81120.GED, referrences Larousse Biographical Dictionary, p665]

Harald I Halfdansson, king of Norway, was the first ruler to claim sovereignty over all Norway. The son of Halfdan the Black (King of Vestfold), he fought his way to power with a crushing defeat of his opponents at the navel battle of Hafursfjord, off Stavanger about 890. His authoritarian rule caused many of the old aristocratic families to emigrate west to the Orkneys, Hebrides and Ireland, and to newly settled Iceland. Harald made several punitive expeditions across the North Sea to subdue his former subjects and impose Norwegian rule ofer the Northern and Western Isles of Scotland. When he was nearly 80 years old in 942, he abdicated in favor of his eldest son, Erick Blood-Axe and died three years later in 945.

King Of Norway/Fairhair
7 Feet Tall