General Notes

Note:

MISC: According to the medieval historian, Snorri Sturluson, Harald Grenske (Greenlander) was king of Westford in Norway, and went on a couple of viking expeditons to the Baltic.

OCCUPATION: Made under-king of Vingulmar, Vestfold, and Agdir abt 960 by Harald, "Bluetooth", King of Denmark

DEATH: Murdered abt 995 by foster sister Sigrid Storrada, "the Haughty"

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Harald was fostered by Hroi, the White, a king's steward in Greenland. After his father's death, he first fled to the Uppland District and next to Sweden to see about joining a Viking expedition with Skoglar Tosti.

Sources:

Title: The Plantagenet Ancestry, by William Henry Turton, 1968
Title: Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, by Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr., 1999
Page: 243a-20


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   Source: RC 28; A. Roots 243A.
   RC: Harold Granske, "Greenlander." Made Under-king of Vigulmark, Vestfold and
Agde by Harold "Bluetooth," c960. Murdered about 995 by Sigrid Starraade.
   Roots: Harald, "Grenski" ("the Grenlander"), raised in Grenland, Norway (not
Greenland), made under-king of Vingulmark, Vestfold, and Agdir about 960 by
Harald "Bluetooth", King of Denmark. Murdered about 995 byh foster sister
Sigrid Storrada, "the Haughty." She was born about 952 to Skoglar-Toste (see
241-5).

GEDCOM line 27961 not recognizable or too long:
  () 2 GIVN Harold the Grenlander

GEDCOM line 27962 not recognizable or too long:
  () 2 SURN of Norway

GEDCOM line 27963 not recognizable or too long:
  () 2 NSFX K in V,V,&A

per Weis' "AR" (243A:20), he was raised in Grenland, NOrway (NOT Greenland),
was made under-king of Vingulmark, Vestfold, and Agdir ca. 960 by Harald
"Bluetooth", King of Denmark, murdered ca. 995 by foster sister Sigrid Storrada
"the haughty".