Harald Greycloak
King of Norway
- Fame55.5
- Momentum6.9
- Norway rank#240
- Fame55.5
- Momentum6.9
- Norway rank#240
- Wikipedia4.8K
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A 10th-century Norwegian king who earned his name by turning a shipload of unsellable sheep-wool cloaks into a fashion craze — then spent his reign killing rivals and consolidating a fractured kingdom before his uncle's allies lured him to Denmark and murdered him.
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Harald was the son of Eric Bloodaxe and grandson of Harald Fairhair, with Denmark's King Harald Bluetooth as his uncle. After his father died in 954, he and his brothers fought their half-uncle Haakon the Good through battles at Rastarkalv in 955 and Fitjar in 961, where Haakon fell. The brothers took Norway's throne with little authority beyond the west; Harald Bluetooth declared Harald his vassal jarl that same year. Harald tightened his grip by killing local rulers — Sigurd Haakonsson, Tryggve Olafsson, Gudrød Bjørnsson — and controlled the coast trade route north to Hålogaland, even raidin…
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