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Harðráði Harald III

(Harald III, Harðráði, King of Norway, 1015-1066)

Harald Sigurdsson (Old Norse: Haraldr Sigurðarson; c. 1015 – 25 September 1066), also known as Harald III of Norway and given the epithet Hardrada in the sagas, was King of Norway from 1046 to 1066. He unsuccessfully claimed the Danish throne until 1064 and the English throne in 1066. Before becoming king, Harald spent 15 years in exile as a mercenary and military commander in Kievan Rus' and chief of the Varangian Guard in the Byzantine Empire. In his chronicle, Adam of Bremen called him the "Thunderbolt of the North". (From Wikipedia)

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The Sagas of Olaf Tryggvason and of Harald The Tyrant (Harald Haardraade) (London: Williams and Norgate, 1911), by Snorri Sturluson, trans. by Ethel Harriet Hearn and Gustav Storm, illust. by Halfdan Egedius, Christian Krogh, Gerhard Munthe, Hjalmar Eilif Emanuel Peterssen, Erik Theodor Werenskiold, and Wilhelm Laurits Wetlesen (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)

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