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...

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

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...

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

The Ladejarl-Fairhair succession wars was a long series of battles between the Fairhair dynasty and the Earls of Lade. The conflict started when Harald...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

the last reigning family that claimed patrilineal descent from Harald Fairhair. The main arms of the kings belonging to the House of Sverre, was a golden...

Magnus the Lawmender House of Sverre Cadet branch of the Fairhair dynasty Born: 1 May 1238 Died: 9 May 1280 Regnal titles Preceded by Haakon IV as sole...

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...

Magnus Erlingsson House of Hardrada Cadet branch of the Fairhair dynasty Born: 1156 Died: 15 June 1184 Regnal titles Preceded by Inge I & Haakon II King...