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See also:HARALD I . (850-933), surnamed Haarfager (of the beautiful See also:hair), first See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king over See also:Norway, succeeded on the See also:death of his See also:father Halfdan the See also:Black in A.D. 86o to the See also:sovereignty of several small and somewhat scattered kingdoms, which had come into his father's hands through See also:conquest,and See also:inheritance and See also:lay chiefly in See also:south-See also:east Norway (see NORWAY). The See also:tale goes that the scorn of the daughter of a neighbouring king induced Harald to take a See also:vow not to cut nor See also:comb his hair until he was See also:sole king of Norway, and that ten years later he was justified in trimming it; whereupon he exchanged the epithet " Shockhead " for the one by which he is usually known. In 866 he made the first of a See also:series of conquests over the many See also:petty kingdoms which then composed Norway; and in 872', after a See also:great victory at Hafrsfjord near See also:Stavanger, he found himself king over the whole See also:country. His See also:realm was, however, threatened by dangers from without, as large See also:numbers of his opponents had taken See also:refuge, not only in See also:Iceland, then recently discovered, but also in the Orkneys, Shetlands, See also:Hebrides and Faeroes, and in See also:Scotland itseit; and from these See also:winter quarters sallied forth to harry Norway as well as the See also:rest of See also:northern See also:Europe. Their numbers were increased by malcontents from Norway, who resented Harald's claim of rights of See also:taxation over lands which the possessors appear to have previously held in See also:absolute ownership. At last Harald was forced to make an expedition to the See also:west to clear the islands and Scottish mainland of Vikings. Numbers of them fled to Iceland, which See also:grew into an See also:independent See also:commonwealth, while the Scottish isles See also:fell under See also:Norwegian See also:rule. The latter See also:part of Harald's reign was disturbed by the strife of his many sons. He gave them all the royal See also:title and assigned lands to them which they were to govern as his representatives; but this arrangement did not put an end to the discord, which continued into the next reign. When he grew old he handed over the supreme See also:power to his favourite son Erik " Bloody See also:Axe," whom he intended to be his successor. Harald died in 933, in his eighty-See also:fourth See also:year.
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