Ancestral File Number:<AFN> G6T4-2C
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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