Halfdan "The Black" King of Vestfold 
Halfdan "The Black" King of was born about 0820 in Vestfold, Norway. Halfdan "The Black" King of's father was Gudrod "The Magnificent" Halfdansson and his mother was Asa Haraldsdottir. His paternal grandparents were Halfdan II Milldi Eysteinsson King of Vestfold and Hilf Dagsdottir. He had a half-brother named Olaf. He died about 0863 in Norway. He was buried in King of Vestfold, Agdir, Raumarike, & Sogn.General Notes
King of Vestfold, Agdir, Raumarike, and Sogn (827-860), d. ca. 860
MISC: He passed rulership of his three small domains in eastern, central, and western Norway to his son, Harald.
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Also recorded as king from 830-870 who first married Ragnhild, daughter of King Harald Gullskiegg of Sogn.
Halfdan was a year old when his father died.
He died by drowning after breaking through the ice while driving home from a feast across the Randsfjord. He was so popular that the leading men agreed to divide his body into four parts to be buried in four districts, Ringerike, Romerike, Westfold and Heithmork. The head or trunk of the body was buried at Stein, Ringerike where there still is a mound named for him.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.0725 in Raumariki, Vestfold, Norway d.0780
- b.0750 in Western Scandinavia d.0800 in Borre, Vestfold, Norway
- b.~ 0730 in Vestfold, Norway
- b.~ 0771 in Holtum, Vestfold, Norway d.< 0827 in Vestfold, Norway (murdered-instigated by wife Asa)
- b.0753 in Holturn, Norway
- b.~ 0820 in Vestfold, Norway d.~ 0863 in Norway
- b.~ 0785 in Vestfold, Norway
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