Later, in the eleventh century, under kings such as Harald Hardrada, the power-broking jarls were crushed. |
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The Viking army, led by Harald Hardrada of Norway, charged into battle and trapped the English in a pincer movement. |
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Harald Bluetooth was a Danish king who unified Denmark and Norway in the 10th century. |
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Tostig, who had been dispossessed of his earldom, raided the south-east coast before joining the invasion by Harald Hardrada of Norway in northern England. |
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Bluetooth takes its name from Harald Blatand, the 10th-century Danish king who cudgeled neighboring Viking chieftains into unifying Denmark and Norway. |
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William and Harald at once set about assembling troops and ships to invade England. |
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King Harald Hardrada invaded northern England in early September, leading a fleet of more than 300 ships carrying perhaps 15,000 men. |
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It came under Danish king Harald Bluetooth in the middle of the 10th century. |
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First, Harald Hardrada of Norway took York in September, but was defeated by Harold at the Battle of Stamford Bridge, in Yorkshire. |
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These events can be seen, with plausibility, to be in connection with the death of Harald. |
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King Harald died childless in 1018 or 1019, leaving the country without a king. |
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This was the home area of Harald Fairhair, the first king of Norway, and because of him, the name was extended to the entire country. |
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Harald III of Norway, commonly known as Harald Hardrada, also contested the succession. |
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William and Harald Hardrada immediately set about assembling troops and ships for separate invasions. |
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According to the Norse sagas, Oslo was founded around 1049 by Harald Hardrada. |
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The later dates cast doubt over Olaf's claim to be of Harald Fairhair's kin, and the legitimacy of his claim to the throne. |
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Harald would hold on to his new faith, but Haakon continued worshiping the old gods when he got home. |
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Many years later, when Harald Hardrada was king of Norway, he passed by the site of the battle. |
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He warred with King Harald for some time, until he was forced to flee to Denmark and Harald Bluetooth. |
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Civil war broke out between Haakon Jarl and the surviving brothers of Harald Greycloak, but Haakon proved victorious. |
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After this, Haakon Jarl ruled Norway as a vassal of Harald Bluetooth, but he was in reality an independent ruler. |
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Otto's forces successfully opposed an attempt by Harald to throw off the German yoke. |
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He made contact with King Harald III Hardrada of Norway and persuaded him to invade England. |
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According to Snorri Sturluson, before the battle a single man rode up alone to Harald Hardrada and Tostig. |
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In the early Viking Age, before Harald Fairhair, Hardanger was a petty kingdom with its capital at Kinsarvik. |
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When King Edward the Confessor died in 1066, the Norwegian king Harald Hardrada challenged his successor as King of England, Harold Godwinson. |
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In 1130, Harald Gille called together a meeting at the Haugating at which he was declared to be King of Norway. |
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However, Harald had to swear an oath that he would not claim the title of king as long as Sigurd or his son was alive. |
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Sigurd's son Magnus was proclaimed king, but Harald also claimed the royal title, and received much support. |
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In 1136 Sigurd murdered Harald in his sleep in Bergen, and had himself proclaimed king. |
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Brice's Day massacre of Danes in England, the son of Harald, Sweyn Forkbeard mounted a series of wars of conquest against England. |
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The authorities arrested the three leaders, Louis Pio, Poul Geleff and Harald Brix, charged them and convicted them of high treason. |
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There are two works from Denmark, Harald Lander's Etudes and Flemming Flindt's The Lesson, both reprises from recent seasons. |
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Harald zur Hausen, who discovered the link between cervical cancer and HPV, said up to 40 per cent of cancers could be linked to viruses. |
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According to later sources, the town was created as a royal foundation, either by King Harald Bluetooth or his successor, Svein Forkbeard. |
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In 1998 Harald Friz in his PhD thesis developed an AR tool used to specify the robot's end effector position and orientation. |
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Then Harald the King was slain, and Leofwine the Earl, his brother, and Gyrth, and many good men, and the Frenchmen held the place of slaughter. |
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As attested by the Jelling stones, the Danes were Christianised around 965 by Harald Bluetooth, the son of Gorm. |
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In that case, Harald built six fortresses around Denmark called Trelleborg and built a further Danevirke. |
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Emma fled to Bruges when Harald Harefoot became king of England, but when he died in 1040 Harthacnut was able to take over as king. |
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In 1194, when Harald Maddadsson was Earl of Orkney and Shetland, a rebellion broke out against King Sverre Sigurdsson of Norway. |
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Harald of Norway and Tostig were killed, and the Norwegians suffered such horrific losses that only 24 of the original 300 ships were required to carry away the survivors. |
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Harold's brother Tostig and Harald Hardrada invaded Northumbria in September 1066 and defeated the local forces under Morcar and Edwin at the Battle of Fulford near York. |
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Honorary freemen include Bob Geldof, King Harald V of Norway, Bobby Robson, Alan Shearer, the late Nelson Mandela and the Royal Shakespeare Company. |
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Cnut's brother Harald may have been at Cnut's coronation, in 1016, returning to Denmark as its king, with part of the fleet, at some point thereafter. |
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Their descendants include Elizabeth II, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Harald V of Norway, Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden, Margrethe II of Denmark, and Felipe VI of Spain. |
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After being exiled by his brother, Tostig supported the Norwegian king Harald Hardrada's invasion of England, and was killed at the Battle of Stamford Bridge. |
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Their old leader, Inge Crouchback, had been the only one of the sons of Harald Gille to be legitimate, and King Magnus Erlingsson was also Erling and Kristin's legitimate son. |
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On the same day Harald Hardrada of Norway, who also claimed the English crown joined Tostig and invaded, landing his fleet at the mouth of the Tyne. |
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Eystein forced Harald to pay fealty as a condition of his release. |
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Queen Margrethe II can trace her lineage back to the Viking kings Gorm the Old and Harald Bluetooth from this time, thus making the Monarchy of Denmark the oldest in Europe. |
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German and French records support that Harald Bluetooth was baptised. |
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Harald Hardrada and Tostig were killed, and the Norwegians suffered such great losses that only 24 of the original 300 ships were required to carry away the survivors. |
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In Denmark he conspired with Harald Bluetooth against Harald Greycloak. |
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In 875, King Harald Fairhair led a fleet from Norway to Scotland. |
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On his success, Ketil was to rule the Sudreys as a vassal of King Harald. |
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Adam of Bremen's writings about Sweyn and his father may have been influenced by Adam's desire to emphasise Sweyn's father Harald as a candidate for sainthood. |
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Princess Sonja, the daughter of an Oslo fashion house director, married Crown Prince Harald last summer after a will-they-won't-they romance that had gone on for a decade. |
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Harald sent emissaries to the king of Sweden, and asked for permission to take the boy back to Norway, where he would be raised by Greycloak's mother Gunhild. |
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Otto's army met the armies of King Harald Bluetooth and Haakon Jarl the ruler of Norway under the Danish king, at Danevirke, a great wall near Schleswig. |
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However, in the late 1120s a man called Harald Gillekrist arrived in Norway from Ireland, claiming to be a son of King Sigurd's father, King Magnus Barefoot. |
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Harald proved his case through an ordeal of fire, the common way of settling such claims at the time, and King Sigurd recognized him as his brother. |
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According to tradition, Harald Fairhair unified them into one in 872 after the Battle of Hafrsfjord in Stavanger, thus becoming the first king of a united Norway. |
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In any event, Olaf was ousted from the kingship a second time by the Northumbrians, this time in favour of Eric son of Harald, according to MS E of the Chronicle. |
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In 1135 Harald succeeded in defeating and capturing Magnus in Bergen. |
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