Halfdan "The Black" Of Vestfold 
Halfdan "The Black" Of was born about 0820 in Vestfold, Norway. Halfdan "The Black" Of's father was "The Magnificent" Halfdansson King of Norway Gudrod and his mother was Asa Haraldsdotter Of Agder. His paternal grandparents were Eysteinsson King of Norway (The Meek) Halfdan II and Hilf Dagsdottir. He had three half-brothers named Olaf, Halfdan and Olaf Gudrodsson King Of Jutland And. He died about 0863 in Norway.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 buriedat Stein, Ringerike where there still is a mound
named for him.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- b.~ 0682 in Vaermland,Sweden d.~ 0710 in Sweden of Sacrificed
- b.~ 0704 in Romerike, Norway d.~ 0750 in Vermaland, Norway
- b.~ 0684 in Soleyum, Sweden Or Trondheim, Norway d.DECEASED in Norway
- b.~ 0725 in Raumariki, Vestfold, Norway d.~ 0780 in In a Boating Accident Near The Isle Of Jarlsey
- b.~ 0678 in Trondheim,Sor-Trondelag,Norway d.0710 in Norway
- b.~ 0705 in Uppland, Norway d.WFT Est 738-790
- b.~ 0684 in Soleyum, Sweden Or Trondheim, Norway d.DECEASED in Norway
- b.0762/0768 in Holtum,Vestfold,Norway d.0800 in Borre,Vestfold,Norway
- b.0715 in Vestfold,Norway d.0756
- b.~ 0735 in Vestfold,Norway d.DECEASED
- b.~ 0771 in Holtum, Vestfold, Norway d.< 0827 in Vestfold, Norway
- b.~ 0730
- b.~ 0753 in Holtum, Vestfold, Norway d.DECEASED
- b.~ 0820 in Vestfold, Norway d.~ 0863 in Norway
- b.~ 0770 d.DECEASED
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