88:, regarded him as a "persecutor of the Christian faith and a demon-worshipper" and his receipt of a benefice as an "utterly detestable crime"—he may have been baptised as a young man at the imperial court. Harald Klak and his family, perhaps including Harald, were baptised at
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and one of his nephews remained at the imperial court even after the elder Harald left. Since
Godfrid remained allied with Lothair until the mid-840s, it is possible that Harald was his cousin who remained with Lothair after 826 and began raiding Louis the Pious's
69:'s claim that Lothair placed a Christian population in submission to a group of Northmen and gave them licence to plunder the Christian territories of his enemies in the same year. Between 840 and 843 Lothair was engaged in a civil war with his brothers
77:, and Nithard records that Harald was present in his army in 842. Not long thereafter Harald died and his brother was forced to flee to the court of Louis the German, where he spent several years.
65:, during the civil wars of the 830s. Since at the time Harald was a pagan, whereas the population of Walcheren was Christian, this incident is probably the basis for the contemporary historian
124:, 20, 45–59; and Ian Wood (1987), "Christians and Pagans in Ninth-Century Scandinavia," in B. Sawyer, P. Sawyer and Ian Wood (eds.),
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record that Rorik was the nephew of Harald, presumably Harald Klak. Coupland, "Poachers to
Gamekeepers", 91 and nn. 40–41.
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