Saga of Harald Fairhair information

Harald Fairhair (Old Norse: Haraldr Hárfagri) (c. 850 – c. 932) was a Norwegian king. According to traditions current in Norway and Iceland in the eleventh...

The Saga of Harald Fairhair (Haralds saga hárfagra) is the third of the sagas in Snorri Sturluson's Heimskringla, after Ynglinga saga and the saga of Halfdan...

970) was a king of Norway from the Fairhair dynasty. Harald acquired his nickname "Gray-hide" after an encounter with the crew of an Icelandic merchant...

saga Rognvald was made the Earl of Møre by Harald Fairhair. The Saga of Harald Fairhair in Heimskringla recounts that Rognvald caused Harald Fairhair...

The Fairhair dynasty (Norwegian: Hårfagreætta) was a family of kings founded by Harald I of Norway (commonly known as "Harald Fairhair", Haraldr inn hárfagri)...

p. 72. Bósa saga ok Herrauds Chronicon Lethrense Gesta Danorum Gríms saga loðinkinna Heimskringla (Saga of Harald Fairhair) Hervarar saga Hversu Noregr...

time of the Pope Adrian II and Pope John VIII, i.e. in the period 867–883, the time of the first settlement of Iceland. Harald Fairhair's saga relates...

to outline the Norse take-over of the Norðreyjar by Harald Fairhair – the take-over is not in doubt although the role of the king is no longer accepted...

mentioned in the Saga of Harald Fairhair by Snorri Sturluson, as one of the tribes who fought against Harald Fairhair in the Battle of Hafrsfjord. Krag...

1082/1083). The Life of Gruffydd ap Cynan ('Haralld Harfagyr', later twelfth century). In Icelandic sagas the name Harald Fairhair is more famously associated...

Sturluson's Saga of Harald Fairhair (Soga om Harald Hårfagre), Tora was from the island of Moster and was descended from the clan (ætt) of Horda-Kåre (Hǫrða-Kára):...

of Hordaland (Gyða Eiríksdóttir) was a semi-legendary Norwegian concubine during the Viking Age. She appears in the Saga of Harald Fairhair (Harald Hårfagres...

kingdoms into a single kingdom, predecessor to the modern Kingdom of Norway. King Harald Fairhair is the monarch who is credited by later tradition as having...

for Harald Fairhair (r. 872–930), is traditionally credited with its authorship. Snorri quotes frequently from this poem and cites it as one of the sources...

Sture, "Erik segersäll" Hervarar saga, Saga of Harald Fairhair and Styrbjörn's saga Lagerqvist & Åberg in Kings and Rulers of Sweden ISBN 91-87064-35-9 pp...

wife of Harald Fairhair, according to Icelandic historian Snorri Sturluson. According to Sturluson's Heimskringla saga, Ragnhild was the daughter of the...

of Norway, later known as the Kingdom of Norway. After the battle, the victorious Viking chief Harald Fairhair proclaimed himself the first king of the...

fighting from a ship against the Norwegian king Harald Fairhair at the Battle of Hafrsfjord. King Harald won the battle and united Norway into one kingdom...

daughter of Ragnvald Sigurdsson, of Huseby on the peninsula of Lista. He was father to Åsa Haraldsdottir and great-grandfather of Harald Fairhair (Haraldr...

became the ancestors of the Norwegian King Harald Fairhair. The saga begins with a description of the "earth's circle" inhabited by human race and divided...