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story credence. During that stage of the civil war, the strife was so intense that genealogical truth had evolved to a relative concept. Many royal pretenders claimed to be sons of King Sigurd II, and that was mostly a political statement – their claims were at best dubious. It may have meant just that the claimant desired to continue the perceived policies of Sigurd and his party, and in that sense were his 'sons'. Sverre I would be viewed as starting the
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Haakon IV was born to a Norwegian peasant girl after the death of King Haakon III. She and the late king's inner circle affirmed that she had been the king's lover and that the boy had been sired by him. Of all the last-mentioned four problematic points of descent, this appears, on the face of it, as
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Harald IV arrived in Norway from his native Ireland and claimed to be the natural son of Magnus III, sired during the latter's Irish expedition. His claim seems, from historical sources, to be based on tales told by his Irish mother and family circle during his youth. Were one to view these claims
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In this critical view, only three generations of Fairhair kings reigned, from 930 to 1030, for 40 years altogether. The kings Olav Tryggvason and St. Olav, their family ties with the Fairhair dynasty perhaps a 12th-century invention, ruled for 18 years altogether and Harald Hardrada then founded a
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One particular point of doubt raised by historians is whether Harald III's father was actually descended in unbroken male line from a younger (and somewhat obscure) son of Harald Fairhair, and Olav II in another obscure but unbroken male line. It has been suggested that their claims to the throne
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Scholars now consider the Fairhair dynasty at least partly the product of medieval invention. One motive would be to increase the legitimacy of rulers by giving them a clear royal ancestry dating back to the foundation of the kingdom. Another was to provide pedigrees for other people by connecting
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as a three-year-old, only to tell his true parentage to the man who discovered him there and freed him six years later. Olaf II is likewise claimed to have been a male-line descendant of Harald I, as great-grandson of Harald I's alleged son Bjørn in Vestfold, yet he is first known to history as a
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by Gunhild, Sverre's attested mother. Sverre was sired during his mother's marriage with another man, Unas the Combmaker. Only in adulthood, so the claim goes according to legends, did his mother tell Sverre his 'real' paternity. Based on historical sources, no one else appears to have given the
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Harald III is historically attested to have referred only to his kinship with his maternal half-brother, Olaf II. Much later legends (sagas authored under the patronage of royal courts of Harald III's descendants) claim Harald III's father also to have descended from Harald I (through Harald
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explored the relationship between them and argued that the original aims were to establish a framework of regnal years for dating and to connect Icelandic chieftains to them, and that the Vestfold origin of the dynasty was deliberately altered and they were connected to the Swedish
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Sjöström, for example, regards this as evidence of later invention: "he male-line descent of Sigurd Syr from Harald Fairhair/Schönhaar is very uncertain, redolent of a later, possibly 12th-century, creation in support of the established royal Hardraada dynasty's legitimacy
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According to the traditional view, after Harald Fairhair first unified the kingdom, Norway was inherited by his agnatic (male) descendants. In the 13th century, this was codified in law. Unlike other Scandinavian monarchies and
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vol 2 (2007:4, July), pp. 253–276: "It is very likely that the lord Halvdan, father of kinglet Sigurd Syr, was not identical with a possible Halvdan in Hadafylke, grandson of king Harald".
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the most trustworthy. Were this disputed, Haakon IV, would be regarded as having started yet another new dynasty, though he is generally regarded as having continued the 'Sverre dynasty'.
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new dynasty. There may be as many as 6 dynasties altogether subsumed under the title of Fairhair dynasty: Harald Fairhair's, Olaf Tryggvason's, St. Olaf's, Harald Hardrada's,
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the progenitor of a dynasty which stretched in three branches from Harald Fairhair to Olaf Tryggvason, Olaf II and Harald. – in fulfillment of prophetic dreams, according to
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Olaf I is given a male-line descent from Harald I in the Icelandic sagas, as grandson of Harald's alleged son Olaf in Vika. However, Viken and its region of Norway,
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However, in the first centuries after Harald Fairhair, there were several periods during which the country was effectively ruled not by a king but by one of the
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successful Viking marauder rather than a landed prince. The reliability of these two claims depends on the credibility of the Icelandic accounts (in particular
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Turville-Petre speaks of a "decisive reconstruction of Harald 's ancestry probably carried out by Icelanders, some two hundred years after his time" which made
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M. Sjöström, "Scandinavian medieval descendants of Charlemagne: A detailed genealogy of the issue of Agnes Haakonsdottir, of the so-called Fairhair dynasty",
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Each of them came from "nowhere" and won the kingdom, the three latter claiming to be hitherto unknown natural sons of an earlier king.
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cannot be easily placed into the Fairhair dynasty scheme. Their relation to an earlier Fairhair king was that of a half-brother.
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The problem points (points of broken genealogy) in the medieval royal lineage in the so-called Fairhair dynasty are:
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The most seriously discredited alleged scion, practically regarded as an impostor by many modern academics, was
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as dubious, then Harald IV instead gave rise to a new dynasty, the 'Gille' (Irish) or 'Gylle dynasty'.
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them to the royal house. Versions of the royal descent are preserved in various works by Icelandic
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were in fact descended from Harald Fairhair (for example questioning the identification of
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were bolstered by genealogical invention because although they shared the same mother,
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argued that an important motive was to establish a hereditary claim to
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Medieval Scandinavia: from Conversion to Reformation, circa 800-1500
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The Fairhair Dynasty is traditionally regarded as the first royal
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party of the civil war, and claimed to be the natural son of
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is also usually considered to be dubious, which would make
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Ynglingatal og Ynglingasaga: en studie i historiske kilder
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Dynasty itself: traditional view vs artificial construct
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Kingdom of Norway at its greatest extent, around 1265
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It was founded by Harald I of Norway, known as 1214:, "The Genealogist and History: Ari to Snorri", 479:, in which the genealogy reaches its full form. 403:and historians, some based on now lost works: 1602: 1480: 1388: 847:Erling Stonewall : 1204–1207, rival king 815:Sigurd the Noisy : 1135–1139, rival king 8: 711:Olaf Haraldsson, Olav the Stout, St. Olav ( 1609: 1595: 1587: 1487: 1473: 1465: 1395: 1381: 1373: 713:Olav Digre / Sankt Olav / Olav den Hellige 686:, perhaps unrelated 'Tryggvason' dynasty: 62: 1303: 1301: 343:It is undisputed that later kings, until 305:, Norway was never an elective monarchy. 1668:Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg 1576:Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg 1454:Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg 606:, who arrived in Norway from his native 1054: 247:in the late 10th century. The moniker " 239:(commonly known as "Harald Fairhair", 31: 631:Kings and pretenders in sub-dynasties 576:then relates that he was enslaved in 270:(red) in 1020, with the territory of 7: 1126:, Cambridge University Press, 2003, 1120:The Cambridge History of Scandinavia 987:Håkon IV Håkonsson : 1217–1263 789:(Øystein Magnusson) : 1103–1123 1345:. Oslo: Universitetsforlage, 2000. 823:Magnus Erlingsson : 1161–1184 961:Sverre Sigurdsson : 1177–1202 767:(Håkon Magnusson) : 1093–1094 751:Magnus Haraldsson : 1066–1069 443:). 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Index

Saint Olaf dynasty
Ætt

Kingdom of Norway
Norwegian
Harald Fairhair
Olaf Tryggvason
Magnus V
Haakon V
Margaret
King of Norway
King of Northumbria
King of Denmark
King of Rånrike
King of Trondheim
King of Vingulmark
Hardrada dynasty
Gille dynasty
Sverre dynasty
Norwegian
kings
Harald I of Norway
Harald Greycloak
Ynglings

Kingdom of Norway
Finnmark
dynasty
kingdom of Norway
petty kings

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