# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/harald-fairhair
# Generated: 2026-08-31T23:28:17.006Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/harald-fairhair"
name: "Harald Fairhair"
slug: "harald-fairhair"
description: "The first king to supposedly unite Norway under one crown — if he existed at all. Celebrated for a millennium as the father of the nation, Harald Fairhair now sits in the strange territory between myth and history, with modern scholars questioning whether the man behind the saga was ever real."
tagline: "King of Norway"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Flateyjarbok_Haraldr_Halfdan.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Norway"
  isoCode: "NO"
birthDate: "851"
deathDate: "933"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           61.87
  momentum:             32.63707048819127
  historical:           24.298364
  currentAttention:     66.64285714285714
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  106
  category: null
tags:
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    slug: "politicians"
  - name: "Politician"
    slug: "politician"
  - name: "Politics"
    slug: "politics"
  - name: "Norway"
    slug: "norway"
  - name: "Europe"
    slug: "europe"
  - name: "Medieval Era"
    slug: "medieval-era"
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    title: "Wikipedia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q206123"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "Pantheon 2.0"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "هارالد الأشقر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "هارالد ذو الشعر الفاتح"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "بیرینجی هارالد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "I Harald Gözəlsaç"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Харал Прекраснокосия"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Harald Iañ Norge"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harald_I%2C_kralj_Norve%C5%A1ke"
    title: "Harald I, kralj Norveške"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Harald I de Noruega"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harald_I._Kr%C3%A1snovlas%C3%BD"
    title: "Harald I. Krásnovlasý"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Harald Hårfager"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Harald I. (Norwegen)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Χάραλντ Χορφάγκρε"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harald_la_1-a_(Norvegio)"
    title: "Harald la 1-a (Norvegio)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harald_I_de_Noruega"
    title: "Harald I de Noruega"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harald_Kaunisjuus"
    title: "Harald Kaunisjuus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harald_I.a_Norvegiakoa"
    title: "Harald I.a Norvegiakoa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF_%DB%8C%DA%A9%D9%85"
    title: "هارالد یکم"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harald_Kaunotukka"
    title: "Harald Kaunotukka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haraldur_H%C3%A1rfagri"
    title: "Haraldur Hárfagri"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harald_%C3%A0_la_Belle_Chevelure"
    title: "Harald à la Belle Chevelure"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%94%D7%90%D7%A8%D7%90%D7%9C%D7%93_%D7%94%D7%A8%D7%90%D7%A9%D7%95%D7%9F%2C_%D7%9E%D7%9C%D7%9A_%D7%A0%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%95%D7%92%D7%99%D7%94"
    title: "האראלד הראשון, מלך נורווגיה"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harald_Skoonhaar"
    title: "Harald Skoonhaar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ang.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hereweald_I_Norrena_Cyning"
    title: "Hereweald I Norrena Cyning"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Harald Fairhair reigned, according to medieval tradition, from around 872 to 930, pulling together a fractured landscape into a single Norwegian kingdom. What survives of his actual life amounts to fragments: a couple of praise poems by his court poet Þorbjörn Hornklofi, and sagas written three centuries after his death that disagree on basic facts. His sons Eric Bloodaxe and Haakon the Good supposedly took the throne after him, extending a dynasty built on uncertain ground. By the nineteenth century, as Norway chafed under union with Sweden, Harald became a national icon — the symbol of an independent past. But the twentieth century brought scrutiny, and by the early 2000s a few historians began to argue that Harald Fairhair never walked the earth at all.