Around 875, Norwegian jarls, or princes, came to these islands to avoid losing their independence in the course of King Harald Fairhair's unification of Norway, but Harald pursued them and conquered the Hebrides as well as Man, and the Shetland and Orkney Islands.

When Harald learnt of this, he pursued the Swedish king until they saw the Swedish king, but then they had arrived at the border of Götaland and considered it best to return.

While it is considered certain that Harald took part in Yaroslav's campaign against the Poles in 1031, it is possible that he also fought against other 1030s Kievan enemies and rivals such as the Chudes in Estonia, the Byzantines, as well as the Pechenegs and other steppe nomad people.

The only contemporary source to this event is from a lay written by Þórbjörn hornklofi ( Modern Norwegian: Torbjørn Hornklove ) shortly after King Harald " Fairhair " beat his enemies.

The company was founded by Frederick George Creed and Danish telegraph engineer Harald Bille, and was first incorporated in 1912 as " Creed, Bille & Company Limited ".

Before SU ( 5 ), Harald Fritzsch and Peter Minkowski and independently Howard Georgi found that all the matter contents are incorporated into a single representation, spinorial 16 of SO ( 10 ).

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 ).

In response, Norwegian king Harald Hårfagre (" Harald Fair Hair ") annexed the Northern Isles ( comprising Orkney and Shetland ) in 875.

The Jarls of Orkney continued to rule much of Northern Scotland until 1196, when Harald Maddadsson agreed to pay tribute to William the Lion, King of Scots for his territories on the Mainland.

With a pledge of allegiance from Tostig, Harald arrived in Northern England in September 1066, raiding the coast and winning a great victory over English regional forces at the Battle of Fulford.

According to the Orkneyinga Saga, in about 872 Harald Fairhair became King of a united Norway and many of his opponents fled to the islands of Scotland including the Hebrides of the west coast, and the Northern Isles.

Northern England would continue to be a source of intrigue for the Norwegians until Harald III of Norway's death at the Battle of Stamford Bridge in 1066 just prior to the Battle of Hastings and the Norman conquest.

The Battle of Fulford took place at the place identified by Symeon of Durham as the village of Fulford near York in England, on 20 September 1066, when King Harald III of Norway-also known as Harald Hardrada and Tostig Godwinson, his English ally, fought and defeated the Northern Earls Edwin and Morcar.

In response, Norwegian king Harald Hårfagre (" Harald Fair Hair ") annexed the Northern Isles in 875 and Rognvald Eysteinsson received Orkney and Shetland from Harald as an earldom as reparation for the death of his son in battle in Scotland.

Furthermore, Harald is assumed to have annexed the Northern Isles ( comprising Orkney and Shetland ) in 875 or later.

* Harald Olafsson, King of Mann and the Isles and his wife, Cecilia, daughter of Haakon Haakonarson, King of Norway.

When Edward the Confessor ascended the throne of a united Dano-Saxon England, a Norse army was raised from every Norwegian colony in the British Isles and attacked Edward's England in support of Magnus ', and after his death, his brother Harald Hardråde's, claim to the English throne.

Widowed in 1246, she married Harald Olafsson, King of Mann and the Isles in 1248.

Harald then sent Ketill Flatnose to subdue them, which he did quickly, but then he declared himself an independent " King of the Isles ", a title he retained for the rest of his life.

Harald sent his cousin Ketil to regain control, but Ketil then declared himself King of the Isles.

Harald Olafsson ( Old Norse: Haraldr Óláfsson ; Mediaeval Gaelic: Aralt mac Amlaíb ) was a 13th century King of Mann and the Isles.

In the Eyrbyggja Saga, it says, “ Ketil Flat-Nose arranged the marriage of his daughter Aud to Olaf the White, the greatest warrior-king at that time in the British Isles .” By noting that Ketil Flat-Nose purposely married his daughter off to a well-known warrior when he got on the bad side of King Harald Fine-Hair brings to light the importance of marrying well to protect your family.

Harald was blinded by Lagmann and disappears from the record, but the descendants of Lagmann and Olaf ruled the Kingdom of the Isles until the rise of Somerled and his sons, and ruled the Isle of Man until the end of the kingdom 1265 and its annexation by Alexander III, King of Scots.

The word " Bluetooth " is an anglicised version of the Scandinavian Blåtand / Blåtann, the epithet of the tenth-century king Harald I of Denmark and parts of Norway who united dissonant Danish tribes into a single kingdom.

Its opening and closing lament, " The Ballad of Mackie Messer ", was written just before the Berlin premiere, when actor Harald Paulsen ( Macheath ) threatened to quit if his character did not receive an introduction ; this creative emergency resulted in what would become the work's most popular song, later translated into English by Marc Blitzstein as " Mack the Knife " and now a jazz standard that Louis Armstrong, Bobby Darin, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Michael Bublé, Robbie Williams, Ray Quinn and countless others have all covered.

* Harald Fairhair was victorious at the battle of Hafrsfjord, and Norway was unified into one kingdom.

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.

When Harald became king in 958, he expanded his kingdom's control into Norway, becoming there in 970.

With the support of Norwegian troops, Harald was able to cross the Danish border into Germany, defeating the German forces stationed in the north.

As a result of his defeat, Otto II officially annexed Denmark into the Empire and exiled Harald to Norway.

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.

He came to the help of Richard the Fearless of Normandy in 945 and 963, while his son conquered Samland, and after the assassination of King Harald Greycloak of Norway, managed to force the people of that country into temporary subjugation to himself.

Ragnar's forays into France were traditional for the Danish monarchs, with such men as Gudfred, Harald Klak and Hygelac among his predecessors ; Rollo of Normandy his future and ultimate successor of the Frankish policy in making the Danes fief-holders of Frisia.

King Harald Fairhair is the king who is credited by later tradition as having unified Norway into one kingdom.

In Heimskringla it is claimed that Harald succeeded, on the death of his father Halfdan the Black Gudrödarson, to the sovereignty of several small, and somewhat scattered kingdoms in Vestfold, which had come into his father's hands through conquest and inheritance.

Although Zoe refused to allow this, Harald managed to escape into the Bosphorus with two ships and some loyal followers.

In 1047, less than a year into their co-rule, Magnus died and Harald became the sole ruler of Norway.

King Magnus was obliged to divide the kingdom with Harald into two parts.

In 970, Harald II was tricked into coming to Denmark and killed in a plot planned by Sigurd Haakonsson's son Haakon Sigurdsson, who had become an ally of Harold Bluetooth.

One of the sagas claims that he sailed for Norway, and greatly impressed the Norwegian king and his court, managing to sway a decidedly unenthusiastic Harald, who had just concluded a long and inconclusive war with Denmark, into raising a levy to take the throne of England.

Harald Hardrada had developed into a continuing conflict with the Archbishopric of Bremen on the archbishop's authority over the Norwegian church.

These composers focused on using folk music in their compositions, a trend that continued well into World War II, though a process of internationalization began in the 1930s, easily heard in composers like Ludvig Irgens-Jensen, Bjarne Brustad, Harald Sæverud and Klaus Egge.

Historians have always suggested that Gorm was buried first in Queen Thyra's grave mound at Jelling, and later moved by his son, Harald Bluetooth, into the original wooden church in Jelling.

When Sweyn died, Canute's brother Harald III was elected King, and as Canute went into exile in Sweden, he was possibly involved in the active opposition to Harald.

In 1999 and 2001, Harald Szeemann directed two editions in a row ( 48th & 49th ) bringing in a larger representation of artists from Asia and Eastern Europe and more young artist than usual and expanded the show into several newly restored spaces of the Arsenale.

In 2008, the award of the Nobel Prize in Medicine for cancer-related research on Human Papilloma Virus ( HPV ) by Harald zur Hausen was being looked into by the Swedish police anticorruption unit.