This strategy eventually led to an invasion by Haakon Haakonsson, King of Norway.

* Haakon Haakonsson, king of Norway from 1217 to 1263.

In 1217, the kings of both factions died, and both accepted the young King Haakon Haakonsson as king.

Under King Haakon Haakonsson, a centralised administration was for the first time built up, with a chancellery in Bergen, which became the first capital city of the country.

The main source of information concerning Haakon is the Saga of Haakon Haakonsson which was written in the immediate years following his death.

In addition to Haakon who gained the support of the majority of the birkebeiners including the veterans who had served under his father and grandfather, candidates included Inge's illegitimate son Guttorm ( who dropped out very soon ), Inge's half-brother Earl Skule Bårdsson who had been appointed leader of the king's hird at Inge's deathbed and was supported by the Archbishop of Nidaros as well as part of the birkebeiners, and Haakon the Crazy's son Knut Haakonsson.

While Ribbung died in 1226, the revolt was finally quashed in 1227 after the surrender of the last leader of the uprising, Haakon the Crazy's son Knut Haakonsson.

tr: Haakon IV, Haakonsson

As a part of the Treaty of Lödöse, he also managed to marry off his daughter Rikissa, then only 11-years old, to Haakon Haakonsson the Young, the eldest son of King Haakon IV of Norway.

In 1236, Magnus, son of Gille Brigte, Mormaer of Angus, was granted the Earldom of Orkney by King Haakon Haakonsson.

The Saga of Haakon Haakonsson states that Haakon IV of Norway anchored in Elwick Bay before sailing south to eventual defeat at the Battle of Largs.

Rescue of Haakon Haakonsson, painted by Knud Bergslien 1869

Today, the Birkebeiners are popularly celebrated for having escorted the two-year-old Haakon Haakonsson, a heir to the Norwegian throne, to safety from Østerdalen to Trondheim, a long and perilous journey through treacherous mountains and forests.

His successor, King Haakon Sverresson, died only two years later, leaving his son Haakon Haakonsson as the ultimate target for the Baglers to get rid of the pretender to the throne.

In 1206, the Birkebeiners set off on a dangerous voyage through treacherous mountains and forests, taking the now two-year-old Haakon Haakonsson to safety in Trondheim.

Norwegian history credits the Birkebeiners ' bravery with preserving the life of the boy who later became King Haakon Haakonsson IV, ended the civil wars in 1240 and forever changed Northern Europe's history through his reign.

Today, the historic event of the rescue of Haakon Haakonsson is honoured in Norway by three annual sporting events, a run, Birkebeinerløpet ; a mountain bike race, Birkebeinerrittet ; a cross-country ski race, Birkebeinerrennet and-beginning 2012-Landeveisbirken, a road bicycle race.

The first Norwegian king to have adopted Christianity was, according to the sagas, Harald Fairhair's son, King Haakon the Good ( c. 934 – 961 ).

Haakon I ( Old Norse: Hákon Aðalsteinsfóstri, Norwegian: Håkon Adalsteinsfostre ), ( c. 920 – 961 ), given the byname the Good, was the third king of Norway and the youngest son of Harald I of Norway and Thora Mosterstang.

Haakon Sigurdarson ( Haakon Jarl ) (, ) ( c. 937 – 995 ) was the de facto ruler of Norway from about 975 to 995.

The Grants are one of the clans of Siol Alpin, and descend from the 9th century Kenneth MacAlpin, King of Scots ; and also of Norse origin, from settlers who are the descents of Haakon inn Riki Sigurdarsson, Jarl of Hladr, Protector of Norway ( Hakon Sigurdsson ),( c. 937 – 995 ), sometimes known as " the Great ", who was the defacto ruler of Norway from about 975 to 995.

Her father was Eric of Sweden ( b. c. 1282, murdered 1318 ), Duke of Södermanland, second son of King Magnus I of Sweden, and her mother was Princess Ingeborg of Norway ( 1301-c. 1360 ), the heiress and the only legitimate daughter of King Haakon V of Norway, whose hereditary Kingdom of Norway thus became the inheritance of Eufemia and her brothers.

File: GelreNorge. jpg | Union arms of Haakon VI as king of Norway and Sweden, c. 1380, from the Gelre Armorial.

* 1872 – Haakon VII of Norway ( d. 1957 )

Alexander attempted to persuade Ewen, the son of Duncan, Lord of Argyll, to sever his allegiance to Haakon IV of Norway.

He laid a formal claim before the Norwegian king Haakon.

Haakon rejected the claim, and in the following year responded with a formidable invasion.

At length Haakon, weary of delay, attacked, only to encounter a terrific storm which greatly damaged his ships.

It includes depictions of Alexander III and his opponent Haakon IV of Norway.

* 1263 – King Haakon IV of Norway ( b. 1204 )

After the national independence in 1905, publisher Aschehoug ( owned by William Martin Nygaard ) hired librarian Haakon Nyhuus to edit Illustreret norsk konversationsleksikon ( 6 volumes, 1907 – 1913 ), in later editions known as Aschehougs konversasjonsleksikon.

The poem is about the fall of King Haakon I of Norway ; although he is Christian, he is taken by two valkyries to Valhalla, and is there received as one of the Einherjar.

By the reign of Alexander III, the Scots were in a position to annexe the remainder of the western seaboard, which they did following Haakon Haakonarson's ill-fated invasion and the stalemate of the Battle of Largs with the Treaty of Perth in 1266.

Following the ill-fated 1263 expedition of Haakon IV of Norway, the Outer Hebrides and the Isle of Man were yielded to the Kingdom of Scotland as a result of the 1266 Treaty of Perth.

In 1263 troops commanded by Haakon Haakonarson repeated the feat but the ensuing Battle of Largs between Scots and Norse forces, which took place on the shores of the Firth of Clyde, was inconclusive as a military contest.

Haakon retreated to Orkney, where he died in December 1263, entertained on his death bed by recitations of the sagas.

* 1940 – King Haakon VII, Crown Prince Olav, and the Norwegian government leave Tromsø and go into exile in London.

* 1945 – King Haakon VII of Norway returns with his family to Oslo after five years in exile.

In the following dróttkvætt stanza, the Norwegian skald Eyvind Finnson skáldaspillir ( d. ca 990 ) compares the greed of king Harald Gråfell to the generosity of his predecessor Haakon the Good:

At the age of ten, she married King Haakon VI of Norway and Sweden, who was the son of King Magnus IV of Sweden and Norway.

When Haakon VI died in 1380, Olav also inherited the crown of Norway.

" A personal envoy represented King Haakon VII of Norway at Rockne's funeral.

* 1905 – Prince Carl of Denmark becomes King Haakon VII of Norway.

* 1905 – Prince Carl of Denmark arrives in Norway to become King Haakon VII of Norway.

This, combined with pressure from the Norwegian king Haakon IV for the Icelanders to re-join the Norwegian " family ", led the Icelandic chieftains to accept Haakon IV as king by the signing of the Gamli sáttmáli (" Old Covenant ") in 1262.

" Amundsen renamed the Antarctic Plateau as King Haakon VII ’ s Plateau.

Shackleton and five companions set out in a small boat to summon help, and on 10 May, after an epic voyage, they landed at King Haakon Bay on South Georgia's south coast.