Figure Norse and Germanic
Harald Fairhair
King of Norway
- Child of Halfdan the Black and Ragnhild Sigurdsdotter
- Married to Gyda Eiriksdatter, Åsa Håkonsdatter, Svanhild Øysteinsdotter and 3 more
- Dated 851 CE – 933 CE
A life on the record,
dated by its sources.
Roles, not beliefs
Overview
From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.
Life
Roles and affiliation
Holding an office is not parentage and not discipleship.
What this means
As the records give them: every row is a third party’s statement, not a self-description, and a role or an affiliation is often held for one period of a life only. An affiliation is not a belief, and this site does not ask anyone about theirs. For an office: which one, for how long, and where the records give an ordinal or the holders either side. Recognition of a tenure is never universal: contested lines appear as overlapping tenures rather than as one corrected sequence.
Belonged to
Offices held 1
Family
The family of Harald Fairhair
Parents, spouses and children as the records give them.
Documented family only. A teacher, a successor or a patron is never drawn in this tree.
The family as a list · 35
Family 35
What this means
A documented human family relationship. Not a succession mechanism, and not religious transmission.
Does not imply a right to an office · transmission of a teaching · a religious affiliation held by the whole house · continuous rule · a marriage · a shared religious affiliation
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
- child of (father) Halfdan the Black ninth-century king of Vestfold
- child of (mother) Ragnhild Sigurdsdotter Daughter of Sigurd Hart, King of Ringerike in Norway
- of the house Fairhair dynasty Medieval european dynasty
- of the house Yngling mythological Swedish royal dynasty
- parent of (child) Bjørn Farmann Norwegian petty king
- parent of (child) Dag Haraldsson Peerage person ID=42750
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parent of (father) Eric Bloodaxe 10th-century Norwegian ruler - parent of (child) Frode Haraldsson (891-938)
- parent of (child) Gudrød Ljome Peerage person ID=42747
- parent of (child) Gudrød Skirja Peerage person ID=42751
- parent of (child) Guttorm Haraldsson Peerage person ID=42722
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parent of (father) Haakon the Good King of Norway - parent of (child) Halfdan Haraldsson the Black Norwegian king
- parent of (child) Halfdan Hvide (?) (878-915)
- parent of (child) Halvdan Hålegg Viking warrior
- parent of (child) Ingeborg (?) Peerage person ID=42754
- parent of (child) Ingegard (?) Peerage person ID=42752
- parent of (child) Olaf Haraldsson Geirstadalf Norwegian petty king (c. 877–c. 934)
- parent of (child) Ólöf árbót Haraldsdóttir Norse noblewoman; daughter of King Harald Fairhair and Gyða Eireksdóttir
- parent of (child) Ragnar Rykkel Norwegian prince
- parent of (child) Ragnvald Rettilbein, King of Hadeland Peerage person ID=42748
- parent of (child) Ring, King in Hedemarken and Gundbransdalen (904-1004)
- parent of (child) Rørek Haraldsson Peerage person ID=42729
- parent of (child) Sigrød Haraldsson Peerage person ID=42724
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- parent of (child) Sigtrygg Haraldsson Peerage person ID=42730
- parent of (child) Sigurd Rise Norwegian prince
- parent of (child) Torgils Haraldsson Peerage person ID=42732
- parent of (child) Ulfljotr Haraldsson
- partner of Tora Mosterstong Mistress to King of Norway Harald I
- married to Åsa Håkonsdatter Peerage person ID=42720
- married to Åshild Ringsdatter Peerage person ID=42737
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married to Gyda Eiriksdatter Norwegian Viking age queen consort - married to Ragnhild Eiriksdatter Peerage person ID=42739
- married to Snøfrid Svåsesdotter wife of King Harald Fairhair
- married to Svanhild Øysteinsdotter Peerage person ID=42733
Religious context
What the records tie them to
Founded, supported, associated with — as third parties recorded it.
What this means
A founding is an attribution, usually contested, and not a claim that the tradition began fully formed. Patronage is an act, not a belief: it says nothing about the religion of a population, and nothing about the patron’s own practice in every period of a life. Domains are as sources record them — for a saint, usually a patronage — rarely exclusive, and not the same in every account.
Connections
How Harald Fairhair connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Identification 1
What this means
One figure treated as another in some context. Not literal identity in all contexts, and usually a claim by a third party.
Does not imply literal identity in all contexts · that either tradition made the identification
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
38 statements on this record
- 23 Has references The statement cites something outside Wikimedia. That citation has not been checked here.
- 15 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 3 of them cite only Wikipedia: one source, counted once.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
Three layers, three licences
- Text
- Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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