Harald being baptized by Poppo the monk, in a relief dated to c. 1200[1]
King of Denmark
Reign
c. 958 – c. 986
Predecessor
Gorm the Old
Successor
Sweyn Forkbeard
King of Norway
Reign
c. 970 – c. 985/986
Predecessor
Harald Greycloak
Successor
Olaf Tryggvason
Regent
Haakon Sigurdsson (de facto ruler)
Died
985/986
Spouses
Gunhild
Tove
Gyrid Olafsdottir
House
House of Gorm
Father
Gorm the Old
Mother
Thyra
Religion
Chalcedonian Christianity
Harald "Bluetooth" Gormsson (Old Norse: Haraldr Blátǫnn Gormsson;[2] Danish: Harald Blåtand Gormsen, died c. 985/86) was a king of Denmark and Norway.
He was the son of King Gorm the Old and of Thyra Dannebod. Harald ruled as king of Denmark from c. 958 – c. 986. Harald introduced Christianity to Denmark and consolidated his rule over most of Jutland and Zealand. Harald's rule as king of Norway following the assassination of King Harald Greycloak of Norway was more tenuous, most likely lasting for no more than a few years in the 970s. Some sources say his son Sweyn Forkbeard forcibly deposed him from his Danish throne before his death.
^"Tamdrup Kirke". Den store danske. Archived from the original on 20 September 2014. Retrieved 3 November 2012.
^Fagrskinna ch. 7 (ed. Finnur Jónsson 1902–8, p. 31) af Harallde Gormssyne (dative), ch. 14 (p. 58) við Haralld konong Gorms sun (accusative).
Harald "Bluetooth" Gormsson (Old Norse: Haraldr Blátǫnn Gormsson; Danish: Harald Blåtand Gormsen, died c. 985/86) was a king of Denmark and Norway. He...
sister of King HaraldBluetooth. After his father's death in 954, Harald and his brothers allied with their uncle, King HaraldBluetooth, against their...
and the 10th-century Danish king HaraldBluetooth. Upon discovering a picture of the runestone of HaraldBluetooth in the book A History of the Vikings...
has a diameter of 4.5 centimetres (1.8 in). The Danish Viking king HaraldBluetooth is mentioned in the inscription of the disc. The disc's characteristics...
have borne the name are Harald Fairhair, Harald Greycloak, HaraldBluetooth, Harald Hardrada, and Harald Gille. HaraldBluetooth is usually not given a...
King Harald II of Denmark, King Cnut the Great, and Queen Estrid Svendsdatter. In the mid-980s, Sweyn revolted against his father, HaraldBluetooth, and...
conspired with HaraldBluetooth against Harald Greycloak. The two arranged the death of Harald Greycloak around 971, after which HaraldBluetooth invited his...
Hamburg and Bremen in 936. According to the Jelling Stones, Gorm's son, HaraldBluetooth, "won all of Denmark", so it is speculated that Gorm only ruled Jutland...
petty king Strut-Harald of then Danish Scania. Sigvald died some time before 1010. A golden disc bearing the name of HaraldBluetooth and Jomsborg appeared...
conquered by the King of Denmark, HaraldBluetooth, who gave it to the Swedish prince Styrbjörn the Strong. Harald then provided Styrbjörn with a strong...
Thyra. The larger of the two stones was raised by King Gorm's son, HaraldBluetooth, in memory of his parents, celebrating his conquest of Denmark and...
Canute and Harald and that Harald eventually killed Canute. It has been noted though that Klak Harald died in 846 CE, while HaraldBluetooth died around...
temples. Denmark was the first Scandinavian country to Christianize, as HaraldBluetooth declared this around AD 965, and raised the larger of the two Jelling...
the Danish prince Sweyn Forkbeard, who was the son and heir to King HaraldBluetooth and thus came from a line of Scandinavian rulers central to the unification...
Denmark was founded or re-united by the Viking kings Gorm the Old and HaraldBluetooth in the 10th century. Originally an elective monarchy, it became hereditary...
Swedish princess and a Danish queen consort as the spouse of King HaraldBluetooth of Denmark. In the sagas, Gyrid was the daughter of King Olof Björnsson...
had been banished, Harald Grenske followed Haakon Sigurdsson who ruled Norway as a vassal of the Danish king HaraldBluetooth. Harald became the king of...
either by Guðfrið or by HaraldBluetooth (if it is the work mentioned as newly made in the Frankish royal annals in 808, then Harald did not build it) it...
runestones believed to have been erected by Gorm the Old (c. 955) and HaraldBluetooth (c. 965). The larger of the two stones is popularly cited as the "baptismal...
claims of later sagas about Harald Fairhair. The first king of Norway recorded in near-contemporary sources is HaraldBluetooth (d. c. 985/986), who is claimed...
Palnatoke raised king HaraldBluetooth's son Sweyn Forkbeard and was a staunch supporter of the old pagan faith. HaraldBluetooth had allowed Christian...
let Harald Greycloak rule the rest of Norway as king, nominally under himself.[citation needed] HaraldBluetooth later switched his support to Harald Greycloak's...
father-in-law was king of Wendland. Otto's army met the armies of King HaraldBluetooth and Haakon Jarl, the ruler of Norway under the Danish king, at Danevirke...
A Bluetooth stack is software that is an implementation of the Bluetooth protocol stack. Bluetooth stacks can be roughly divided into two distinct categories:...
the oldest reference to Harald is a praise poem by Einarr Helgason from c. 980, where the current Danish ruler HaraldBluetooth is likened with Hilditann...
Knud died on the journey to Rome. He also unsuccessfully pressed for HaraldBluetooth, the first Christian king of Denmark, to be sanctified. He was an ally...
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