The Fairhair dynasty (Norwegian: Hårfagreætta) was a family of kings founded by Harald I of Norway (commonly known as "Harald Fairhair", Haraldr inn hárfagri)...

Harald Fairhair (Old Norse: Haraldr Hárfagri) (c. 850 – c. 932) was a Norwegian king. According to traditions current in Norway and Iceland in the eleventh...

first king Harald Fairhair, but this is not accepted as historically correct by most modern historians. It replaced the Saint Olaf dynasty, and was again...

regents. Several royal dynasties have possessed the Throne of the Kingdom of Norway: the more prominent include the Fairhair dynasty (872–970), the House...

hereditary kingdom of the 'Fairhair' dynasty, agnatic (patrilineal) descendants of the first unifier-king, Harald Fairhair. The successors to the throne...

This is a list of queens consort of Norway. This list covers a large time span and the role of a queen has changed much over the centuries, with some individual...

Danish: Harald Gråfeld; c. 935 – c. 970) was a king of Norway from the Fairhair dynasty. Harald acquired his nickname "Gray-hide" after an encounter with the...

Íslendingabók, the Fairhair dynasty in Oppland, Norway was in fact a branch of the Ynglings (here Yngling is explicitly used as the name of the dynasty). Saxo Grammaticus...

later Icelandic sagas would describe as a great-great-grandchild of Harald Fairhair (who had unified Norway as one Kingdom, establishing a feudalist structure...

kings' sagas, in which he takes part in the sagas of his father Harald Fairhair and his younger half-brother Haakon the Good. These include the late 12th-century...

Rånrike), and, according to later sagas, the great-grandson of Harald Fairhair, first King of Norway. He is numbered as Olaf I. Olaf was important in...

Rika Eiríksdóttir, Norwegian: Ragnhild Eiriksdatter) was a wife of Harald Fairhair, according to Icelandic historian Snorri Sturluson. According to Sturluson's...

Maria Haraldsdotter (died 25 September 1066) was a Norwegian princess, as the daughter of Harald Hardrada and Elisiv of Kiev. She is the first known Norwegian...

England. Its most famous king was Cnut the Great, who gave his name to this dynasty. Other notable members were Cnut's father Sweyn Forkbeard, grandfather...

Harald Hardrada was widely known as Harald Fairhair, and indeed now doubt that the earlier Harald Fairhair existed in any form resembling the later saga-accounts...

Burial Nidaros Cathedral Issue Ragnhild Magnusdatter [no] House St. Olaf (Vestfold branch of Fairhair dynasty) Father Olaf II of Norway Mother Alfhild...

to this late saga tradition, Haakon was the youngest son of King Harald Fairhair and Thora Mosterstang. He was born on the Håkonshella peninsula in Hordaland...

single kingdom, predecessor to the modern Kingdom of Norway. King Harald Fairhair is the monarch who is credited by later tradition as having first unified...

Margaret (Norwegian: Margrete, Scottish Gaelic: Maighread; March or April 1283 – September 1290), known as the Maid of Norway, was the Queen-designate...

founding of Norway, as well as Norway's first king, Harald I of the Fairhair dynasty. With the introduction of the Norwegian Law of Succession in 1163,...

expedition also appears to have supported a branch of the Norse-Gaelic dynasty of Ivar that opposed Irish king Diarmait mac Maíl na mBó. Magnus commanded...

/ Fairhair dynasty Harald I Halfdansson Eric I Haraldsson Haakon I Haraldsson Harald II Ericsson Lade dynasty Haakon Sigurdsson Trygvason dynasty Olaf...

Haakon V Magnusson (10 April 1270 – 8 May 1319) (Old Norse: Hákon Magnússon; Modern Norwegian: Håkon Magnusson) was King of Norway from 1299 until 1319...

started the Gille (or Gylle dynasty), a putative cadet branch of the Hardrada dynasty (and by extension the Fairhair) dynasty. Harald Gille arrived in Norway...

detailed genealogy of the issue of Agnes Haakonsdottir, of the so-called Fairhair dynasty", Foundations - Journal of the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy vol...

Kingdom of Holland Fairhair dynasty (Hårfagreætta) (AD 872–970, AD 995–1000) Saint Olaf dynasty (AD 1015–1028, AD 1035–1047) Hardrada dynasty (Hardrådeætta)...

Astrid Olofsdotter (Norwegian: Astrid Olavsdatter; English: Aestrith) (died 1035) was the queen consort of King Olaf II of Norway. She is the only woman...

Halfdan Haraldsson or Halfdan the Black was a son of Harald I of Norway by his first wife, Åsa, the daughter of Jarl Håkon Grjotgardsson of Lade. He was...

Haakon Magnusson House of Hardrada Cadet branch of the Fairhair dynasty Born: 1069 Died: February 1095 Regnal titles Preceded by Olaf III King of Norway...

Olof Trätälja, became ancestral to the later kings of Norway of the Fairhair dynasty. Sturluson's Ynglinga saga was created far too late to serve as a reliable...