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King Harald V and Queen Sonja are the current rulers of Norway. Here's everything to know about Norway's royal family ...
The first time King Harald was given the nickname Blåtand (Bluetooth) is in the Roskilde Chronicle, a 12th-century Latin text probably written by a monk from eastern Denmark.Bluetooth had chosen ...
The Song of King Harald Fairhair An American novelist puts flesh on the bones of the founding father of Viking-era Norway. Tom Shippey reviews ‘The Half-Drowned King’ by Linnea Hartsuyker.
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Harald Fairhair – The Man Who United Norway
He swore not to cut his hair until he ruled all of Norway—then went out and made it happen. This is the real story behind the first Viking king.
Harald Finehair is believed to have been the first King of Norway, reigning from 872 until 930. As seen in the TV series Vikings, Harald Fairhair was appointed as the first King of Norway.
Oslo can sometimes feel like a provincial city rather than the capital of a wealthy, highly developed petrostate and there's ...
King Harald and Queen Sonja’s once “forbidden romance” and tumultuous nine-year courtship is the subject of Prime Video’s new series ‘Harald and Sonja,’ out Feb. 14 on the streaming ...
Early in the game, our hero Eivor meets this King Harald Fairhair. Assassins Creed's King Harald is a young and kind (and fair-haired) king, with a desire to unite Norway under one banner -- his.
King Harald and Queen Sonja of Norway are set to be the subject of a new Amazon Prime drama depicting the nine-year battle for their romance.. Though it was 'love at first sight' for the pair ...
More than 1,000 years after his death in what is now Poland, a European king whose nickname lives on through wireless technology is at the center of an archaeological dispute.
King Harald of Norway, 86, is recovering from an infection that saw him hospitalised earlier last week, but the King will remain on sick leave, the Palace announced.