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Harald's ancestry according to the younger sagas. Individuals whose existence is disputed by modern historians are in italics. [11]Harald was born in Ringerike, Norway, [12] in 1015 (or possibly 1016) [a] [13] to Åsta Gudbrandsdatter and her second husband Sigurd Syr.
Magnus was born in 1048 [1] or 1049. [2] He was the first of two sons of King Harald Hardrada, by his consort Tora Torbergsdatter. [2] There are no known skaldic poems written about Magnus, and he appears only briefly in the Norse sagas. [2]
Sigurd and His Wife Åsta consulting Olaf II the Holy. The traditional view of Sigurd Halvdansson Syr's pedigree, as presented in various Icelandic poems and historical sagas culminating in Snorri Sturluson's Heimskringla, is that he was a great-grandson of King Harald Fairhair, through Harald's son Sigurd Rise.
The Hardrada dynasty (Norwegian: Hardrådeætta) [1] was a powerful royal dynasty which ruled, at various times in history, the Kingdom of Norway, the Kingdom of Mann and the Isles, and the Earldom of Orkney. The royal house was founded, albeit unknowingly, by Harald Sigurdsson when he was made king of Norway.
In early 1031, a party including Magnus's uncle Harald Sigurdsson (later also to be king and then known as Harald Hardrada) arrived to report the news of his father's death at the Battle of Stiklestad. For the next few years, Magnus was educated in Old Russian and some Greek and was trained as a warrior. [6]
Olaf was a son of King Harald Hardrada and Tora Torbergsdatter.Olaf joined his father during the invasion of England during 1066. However, he was only 16 years old during the Battle of Stamford Bridge on 25 September 1066.
When King Harald V was born in 1937 at the royal estate of Skaugum, he became the first prince born in Norway in 567 years. He spent the first three years of his life in Norway, but when German ...
Soon after Harald Grenske's death, Åsta married Sigurd Syr, king of Ringerike, and brought the child Olaf with her to be raised in the home of his stepfather. [6] When King Olaf Tryggvason of Norway arrived in 998 to convert the populace of Ringerike to Christianity, Sigurd, Åsta, and Olaf were all baptized, with the king himself acting as Olaf's godfather.