biography
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Harald I Halfdanarson
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nickname Harald Fairhair or Finehair
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (c.860–c.940)
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| biography:
| King of Norway (c.890–c.942), the first ruler to claim sovereignty over all Norway. The son of Halfdan the Black (King of Vestfold), he fought his way to power with a crushing defeat of his opponents at the naval Battle of Hafursfjord, off Stavanger, in c.890. His authoritarian rule caused many of the old aristocratic families to emigrate W to the Orkneys, Hebrides, and Ireland, and to newly-settled Iceland. |
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