Halfdan Haraldsson the Black
Halfdan Haraldsson or Halfdan the Black (not to be confused with his grandfather and namesake) was a son of Harald I of Norway by his first wife, Åsa, the daughter of Jarl Håkon Grjotgardsson of Lade. He was made of the Trondelag by his father, along with his brother . According to Heimskringla, Halfdan the Black was poisoned, possibly at the behest of his sister in law Gunnhild, Mother of Kings.
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- Driscoll, Matthew J. (1995). Ágrip af Nóregskonungasǫgum a Twelfth-Century Synoptic History of the Kings of Norway. London: Viking Society for Northern Research. ISBN 0-903521-27-X.
- Finlay, Alison (2003). Fargrskinna, a Catalogue of the Kings of Norway: a Translation with Introduction and Notes. Boston: Brill Academic Publishers. ISBN 90-04-13172-8.
- Sturluson, Snorri (1964). Heimskringla: History of the Kings of Norway. trans. Lee M. Hollander. Austin: Published for the American-Scandinavian Foundation by the University of Texas Press. ISBN 0-292-73061-6.
- Theodoricus monachus; Foote, Peter (1998). Historia De Antiquitate Regum Norwagiensuim. London: Viking Society for Northern Research, University College London. ISBN 0-903521-40-7.
Categories:
- Norwegian petty kings
- Fairhair dynasty
- 10th-century Norwegian nobility