Halfdan Haraldsson the Black information

Halfdan Haraldsson or Halfdan the Black was a son of Harald I of Norway by his first wife, Åsa, the daughter of Jarl Håkon Grjotgardsson of Lade. He was...

daughter of Svåse the Finn: Halfdan Halegg Haraldsson or "Long-Leg", was executed with the Blood eagle ritual by Torf-Einarr detailed in the Orkneyinga saga...

Halfdan the Black (c. 810–c. 860), King of Vestfold (in present-day Norway) Halfdan Haraldsson the Black, a Norwegian petty king and grandson of the above...

Vingulmark Alfgeir (Old Norse: Álfgeir) Gandalf Alfgeirsson Halfdan the Black Son of Gudrød Olaf Haraldsson Tryggve Olafsson Harald Gudrødsson Grenske, 976–987...

Vingulmark: Gudrød the Hunter, half of Vingulmark Alfgeir (Old Norse: Álfgeir) Gandalf Alfgeirsson Halfdan the Black Olaf Haraldsson Tryggve Olafsson Harald...

named Åke, who had formerly been one of Halfdan the Black's men, and he invited both the Norwegian king and the Swedish king to his halls. Åke had built...

Gandalf was given the kingdom of Alfheim by his father Alfgeir. A Gandalf, normally taken to be the same, fought with Halfdan the Black for overlordship...

Per G. "Olav 2 Haraldsson Den Hellige". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Retrieved 5 November 2012. Krag, Claus. "Olav 2 Haraldsson Den Hellige"....

by Icelanders, some two hundred years after his time" which made Halfdan the Black the progenitor of a dynasty which stretched in three branches from Harald...

the Annales Fuldenses calls Hemming a son of Halfdan. This is the only mention of their father in a primary source. The identification relies on the 'widely...

support, to meet with King Olaf Haraldsson. He was well received there, for Olaf bore his own grudge against Einar for the killing of his comrade Eyvind...

starting with Halfdan the Black. A version of Óláfs saga helga, about the saint Olaf II of Norway, is the main and central part of the collection: Olaf's...

the other. Who then is "Albdan"? The name is probably a corruption of the Norse Halden, or Halfdane, and this may be a reference to Halfdan the Black...

After the fall of the East Anglian kingdom, leadership of the Great Army appears to have fallen to Bagsecg and Halfdan, who campaigned against the Mercians...

The Lerwick Up Helly Aa is the largest Up Helly Aa fire festival celebrated annually on the last Tuesday in January in Lerwick, the capital of Shetland...

Northumbria, Halfdan Ragnarrson (Old English: Healfdene)—one of the leaders of the Viking Great Army (known to the Anglo-Saxons as the Great Heathen...

English retreat onto the Berkshire Downs. The Great Heathen Army, led by the Danish Viking kings Halfdan and Bagsecg, march out after the Saxons. Six pitched...

since Rognvald, ended with Jon Haraldsson's murder in Thurso. The Earldom of Caithness was granted to Magnus, second son of the Earl of Angus, whom Haakon...

of the Viking era in Norway is marked by the Battle of Stiklestad in 1030. Although Olafr Haraldsson's (later known as Olav the Holy) army lost the battle...

the Frankish subkingdom Alamannia, enraging his eldest son and co-emperor Lothair I, who begins an insurrection. Viking chieftain Halfdan the Black becomes...

the region until the 13th century. Erik Agnarsson Halfdan Hvitbeinn (part of Vestfold) Eystein Halfdansson Halfdan the Mild Gudrød the Hunter Halfdan...

deaths. Al-Mutawakkil Charles the Bald Louis the German Lothar Ethelwulf of Wessex Bardas Kenneth I of Scotland Halfdan the Black Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn Musa...

2002. Lang, Samuel, trans. "Ynglinga Saga, or The Story of the Yngling Family from Odin to Halfdan the Black". Heimskringla. London, 1844; with corrections...