When Haakon was approached by the men and was urged to take up arms against Inge, he rejected it in part because of his young age and its bad prospects, as well as because he believed it would be morally wrong to fight Inge and thus split the birkebeiner.

One time, Haakon rejected an offer from the Pope to become Holy Roman Emperor.

As part of a new development the Scottish king Alexander II claimed the Hebrides and requested to buy the islands from Norway, but Haakon staunchly rejected the proposals.

A delegation of Irish kings invited Haakon to help them rid Ireland of English settlers as High King of Ireland, but this was apparently rejected against Haakon's wish.

He laid a formal claim before the Norwegian king Haakon.

Haakon died in 1263 while on campaign against Scotland, defending his claim to the overlordship of the Hebrides and the Isle of Man.

The two men in the hole heard this speech, and Haakon became distrustful of Kark, fearing he would mutilate him to claim the price.

Haakon Sverresson was dead by the time his son Haakon was born, but Inga's claim was supported by several of Haakon Sverresson's followers.

Haakon was born in bagler-controlled territory, and his mother's claim placed them in a dangerous position.

The saga's claim that Haakon already had been generally accepted as king in 1217 / 18 has however been contested by modern historians such as Sverre Bagge.

While the church in Norway initially had refused to recognise Haakon as King of Norway, it had largely turned to support his claim to the throne by the 1223 meeting, although later disagreements occurred.

On 2 August the same year, at Marstrand near Tønsberg, Haakon invested and confirmed the title of Earl of Orkney upon Henry Sinclair, Baron of Roslin ( a grandson of Maol Íosa V, Earl of Strathearn ) over the rival claim of Sinclair's cousin, Malise Sparre.

On 2 August 1379, at Marstrand, near Tønsberg, Norway, King Haakon VI of Norway invested and confirmed Sinclair as the Norwegian Earl of Orkney over a rival claim by his cousin Malise Sparre.

Haakon was raised at the Christian English court and had returned to claim the throne of his father Harald Fairhair ( the unifier of Norway ) and intended to Christianize the country.

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.

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:

For his struggles against the Nazi regime and his effort to revive the Holmenkollen ski festival following World War II, King Haakon VII earned the Holmenkollen medal in 1955 ( Shared with Hallgeir Brenden, Veikko Hakulinen, and Sverre Stenersen ), one of only eleven non-Nordic skiers to earn this honour.

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

Was appointed king and co-ruler following the death of Haakon the Young.

Haakon would then rule as the sole king in the kingdom, though his father continued to exercise control over Norway for the following years, albeit not in name anymore.

Haakon became less interested in Danish affairs following the military failures against the Hanseatic cities, and would again turn his attention to his chief foreign policy of retaking Sweden from the Germans, something which he would have some limited success with in the following years.

According to Skáldatal, Haakon had the following court poets:

In 977 Vladimir fled to his kinsman Haakon Sigurdsson, ruler of Norway, collecting as many of the Norse warriors as he could to assist him to recover Novgorod, and on his return the next year marched against Yaropolk.

He put a definitive end to the civil war era when he had Skule Bårdsson killed in 1240, a year after he had himself proclaimed king in opposition to Haakon.

Haakon over-wintered at the Bishop's Palace in Kirkwall, Orkney, with plans to resume his campaign the next year.

Barely a year later, representatives of the cities and the general public assembled at Båhus Castle, where Haakon was hailed as King of Norway and perpetual fealty and servitude were sworn to the new king.

Further strife between the two kingdoms would put the marriage contract on hold for a few years until the two parties eventually reconciled in 1363 ; Haakon and Margaret were married that year in the Copenhagen Cathedral.

The first union between Sweden and Norway occurred in 1319 when the three-year-old Magnus, son of the Swedish royal Duke Eric and of the Norwegian princess Ingeborg, inherited the throne of Norway from his grandfather Haakon V and in the same year was elected King of Sweden, by the Convention of Oslo.

On 3 February the same year, Inge was defeated and killed, leading his men into battle against King Haakon near Oslo, after many of his men, led by his vassal Godred, King of Mann and the Isles defected to King Haakon ’ s side.

This event was quickly followed by Prince Carl of Denmark's accession to the Norwegian throne on 18 November the same year, taking the name Haakon VII.

The last king with that name was Haakon VI, who died in the year 1380.

The next year, the new Birkebeiner candidate was also recognized by the Bagler as King Haakon IV of Norway, bringing the division of the kingdom to an end.

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

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.

In 1263, King Haakon IV of Norway, in retaliation for a Scots expedition to Skye, arrived on the west coast with a fleet from Norway and Orkney.

Haakon died overwintering in Orkney, and by 1266, his son Magnus the Law-mender ceded the Kingdom of Man and the Isles, with all territories on mainland Scotland to Alexander III, through the Treaty of Perth.

Documents found on Wallace, and delivered to Edward by John de Segrave, included letters of safe conduct from Haakon V of Norway, Philip IV of France, and John Balliol, with other documents.

Saga of Hákon the Good credits King Haakon I of Norway with the Christianization of Norway, as well as rescheduling the date of Yule to coincide with Christian celebrations held at the time.

" In time, Haakon had a law passed that established that Yule celebrations were to take place at the same time as when the Christians held their celebrations, " and at that time everyone was to have ale for the celebration with a measure of grain, or else pay fines, and had to keep the holiday while the ale lasted.

* 1262 – The Icelandic Commonwealth enters into a treaty establishing a union with Norway and acknowledges Norwegian King Haakon IV as its ruler.

* March 16 – King Haakon VI of Norway designates the city of Skien as a city with trading privileges, making it the 6th town with city status in the country.

Four hundred years later, the Heimskringla relates that Harald was converted with Earl Haakon, by Otto II.

* The Icelandic Commonwealth enters into a treaty establishing a union with Norway and acknowledges Norwegian King Haakon IV as its ruler.

The family's perhaps most prominent lineage comes from Norway, where at least three of his ancestors have been that country's leaders in a position comparable with a modern prime minister: in 16th century, his ancestor Nils Henriksson av Østråt ( Gyldenløve ) served as Lord High Steward of Norway and another ancestor, Vincents Vincentson Lunge, as Viceroy of the kingdom of Norway ; and then in 17th century, yet another ancestor, Jens Ovesonn Bjelke served as Lord High Chancellor of Norway, and was himself descended from king Haakon V of Norway ( the king and his forefathers thus also being Bildt's ancestors ) through his daughter Agnes Hakonardottir, Dame of Borgarsyssel.

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.

This delayed the Nazi German invasion long enough for King Haakon, his government and the parliament to escape the city with much of the treasury, and to resist the invaders, although Oslo itself surrendered to the invaders at 14: 00 on 9 April 1940.

In the 1930s Emil Boyson, Gunnar Larsen, Haakon Bugge Mahrt, Rolf Stenersen and Edith Øberg were among the Norwegian authors who experimented with prose modernism.

Haakon VII ( Prince Carl of Denmark and Iceland, born Christian Frederik Carl Georg Valdemar Axel ) ( 3 August 1872 21 September 1957 ), known as Prince Carl of Denmark until 1905, was the first king of Norway after the 1905 dissolution of the personal union with Sweden.

In Norway, Haakon is regarded as one of the greatest Norwegians of the twentieth century and is particularly revered for his courage during the German invasion — he threatened abdication if the government cooperated with the invading Germans — and for his leadership and preservation of Norwegian unity during the Nazi occupation.

Several of his paternal ancestors had been kings of independent Norway ( Haakon V of Norway, Christian I of Norway, Frederick I, Christian III, Frederick II, Christian IV, as well as Frederick III of Norway who integrated Norway into the Oldenburg state with Denmark, Slesvig and Holstein, after which it was not independent until 1814 ).

The next day, Curt Bräuer, the German Minister to Norway, demanded a meeting with Haakon.

Bräuer suggested that Haakon follow the example of the Danish government and his brother, Christian X, which had surrendered almost immediately after the previous day's invasion, and threatened Norway with harsh conditions if it did not surrender.