It was initially established by a public consisting largely of recent immigrants from Norway who had fled the unification of that country under King Harald Fairhair.

In 1066, King Harald Hardråde of Norway invaded England, only to be defeated by Harold Godwinson, who in turn was defeated by William of Normandy, descendant of the Viking Rollo, who had accepted Normandy as a fief from the Frankish King.

The three rulers had their claims to the English crown ( Harald probably primarily on the overlord-ship of Northumbria ) and it was this that motivated the battles rather than the lure of plunder.

The Heimskringla tells that her father Finn had been an adviser to Harald Hardraade and, after falling out with Harald, was then made an Earl by Sweyn Estridsson, King of Denmark, which may have been another recommendation for the match.

Although he had given sanctuary to Tostig Godwinson when the Northumbrians drove him out, Malcolm was not directly involved in the ill-fated invasion of England by Harald Hardraade and Tostig in 1066, which ended in defeat and death at the battle of Stamford Bridge.

The Icelandic Commonwealth was established in 930 AD by refugees from Norway who had fled the unification of that country under King Harald Fairhair.

In contrast to Amundsen's earlier expeditions, this expedition had a clear academic profile, with geophysicist Harald Sverdrup on board.

Another possible contributing factor is that Harald I of Norway (" Harald Fairhair ") had united Norway around this time, and the bulk of the Vikings were displaced warriors who had been driven out of his kingdom and who had nowhere to go.

* Harald Bluetooth ( Harald Gormson ), who according to the Jelling Stones that he had erected, " won the whole of Denmark and Norway and turned the Danes to Christianity ".

By 1985, Harald zur Hausen had shown that two strains of Human papillomavirus ( HPV ) cause most cases of cervical cancer.

Harald I of Norway is known to have had a body of Úlfhednar ( wolf coated ), which are mentioned in Vatnsdœla saga, Haraldskvæði, and the Völsunga saga resemble some werewolf legends.

King Harald Hardrada of Norway also had a claim to the throne as the uncle and heir of King Magnus I, who had made a pact with Harthacnut in about 1040 that if either Magnus or Harthacnut died without heirs, the other would succeed.

Magnus I of Norway ( reigned 1035 – 1047 ), who wasn't a warlord, had reigned for more than a decade when his uncle Harald Hardrada ( reigned 1047 – 1066 ) challenged his rule.

The mound itself was from c. 500 BCE, but Harald had it built higher over his father's grave, and added a second mound to the south.

After his conversion, around the 960s, Harald had his father's body reburied in the church next to the now empty mound, and erected one of the Jelling stones described above.

The English King Harold II, who had been waiting for a Norman invasion, had rushed his army northward to attack an invading Norwegian Viking army under King Harald Hardråda and Tostig Godwinson ( Harold's brother ).

Despite being barely a village back then, King Harald Fairhair lived at Avaldsnes, very close to the modern town of Haugesund.

The alleged relationship was acknowledged by Sigurd on condition that Harald did not claim any share in the government of the kingdom during his lifetime or that of his son Magnus.

Harald Schmidt resides in Cologne with his partner Ellen Hantsch, a school teacher, and five children, the eldest being from a former relationship.

In the mid-1940s, Vélez began a relationship with actor Harald Maresch, and became pregnant with his child.

Following the Leipzig premiere, the opera was presented in Berlin in December 1931 at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm conducted by Alexander von Zemlinsky with Lotte Lenya as Jenny, Trude Hesterberg as Begbick, and Harald Paulsen as Jimmy.

The idea of this name was proposed by Jim Kardach who developed a system that would allow cell phones to communicate with computers ( at the time he was reading Frans Gunnar Bengtsson's historical novel The Long Ships about Vikings and king Harald Bluetooth ).

In September 1066, Harald III of Norway landed in Northern England with a force of around 15, 000 men and 300 longships ( 50 men in each boat ).

Harald Motzki said: " The mere fact that ahadith and asanid were forged must not lead us to conclude that all of them are fictitious or that the genuine and the spurious cannot be distinguished with some degree of certainty.

Heimskringla is a collection of sagas about the Norwegian kings, beginning with the saga of the legendary Swedish dynasty of the Ynglings, followed by accounts of historical Norwegian rulers from Harald Fairhair of the 9th century up to the death of the pretender Eystein Meyla in 1177.

He went on his first expedition in 1902 – 1904, known as The Danish Literary Expedition, with Jørgen Brønlund, Harald Moltke and Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen, to examine Inuit culture.

In 1972 he and Harald Fritzsch introduced the conserved quantum number " color charge ", and later along with Heinrich Leutwyler, they introduced quantum chromodynamics ( QCD ) as the gauge theory of the strong interaction ( cf.

Mieszko decided on the alliance with Sweden probably in order to help protect his possessions in Pomerania from the Danish King Harald I and his son Sweyn.

* Harald Klak ( Harald Halfdansson ), a 9th c. king in Jutland who made peace with Louis the Pious in order to win Frankish support in his struggle for power.

After defeating Harald Hardrada and Tostig, Harold left much of his army in the north, including Morcar and Edwin, and marched the rest south to deal with the threatened Norman invasion.

* Hedeby is sacked by King Harald Hardråde of Norway during the course of a conflict with Sweyn II of Denmark.

This strengthened his acceptability as Edward's successor, but fatally split his own family, driving Tostig into alliance with King Harald Hardrada (" Hard Ruler ") of Norway.

Harald Hardrada was impressed with the rider and asked Tostig his name, Tostig replied that the rider was none other than Harold Godwinson.

On his father Harald Bluetooth's death in late 986 or early 987, he became King of Denmark ; in 1000, with allegiance of the Trondejarl, Eric of Lade, he was ruler over most of Norway.

Harald apparently spent the rest of his days with the Slavs in Wendland, within modern-day Germany.

In the next year he led the Russian armies together with Harald III of Norway against the Byzantine emperor Constantine IX.

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

Adam of Bremen's claim regarding Otto I and Harald appears to have been inspired by an attempt to manufacture a historical reason for the archbishops of Hamburg-Bremen to claim jurisdiction over Denmark ( and thus the rest of Scandinavia ); in the 1070s, the Danish King was in Rome asking for Denmark to have its own arch-bishop, and Adam's account of Harald's supposed conversion ( and baptism of both him and his " little son " Sweyn, with Otto serving as Sweyn's godfather ) is followed by the unambiguous claim that " At that time Denmark on this side of the sea, which is called Jutland by the inhabitants, was divided into three dioceses and subjected to the bishopric of Hamburg.

Harald undoubtedly professed Christianity at that time and contributed to its growth, but with limited success in Denmark and Norway.

When Styrbjörn brought this fleet to Uppsala to claim the throne of Sweden, Harald broke his oath and fled with his Danes in order to avoid facing the Swedish army at the Battle of Fýrisvellir.

When Sweyn died, his elder son Harald Svendsen became King Denmark as England's former king Ethelred reclaimed it.