Eric Bloodaxe
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Eric Haraldsson, nicknamed Bloodaxe and Brother-Slayer, was a Norwegian king. He ruled as King of Norway from 932 to 934, and twice as King of Northumbria: from 947 to 948, and again from 952 to 954.
Silver penny of Eric Bloodaxe, which reads "ERIC REX"
![Coin minted at York, type N550, ECM 2007.0059. Obverse: ERIC RE[X] (King Eric). Reverse: [R]ADVLF MON[] (moneyer Radulf).](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Eric-Rex-coins.jpg/500px-Eric-Rex-coins.jpg)
Coin minted at York, type N550, ECM 2007.0059. Obverse: ERIC RE[X] (King Eric). Reverse: [R]ADVLF MON[] (moneyer Radulf).
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Eric Bloodaxe, seated, and Gunnhild are confronted by Egill Skallagrimsson.
Harald Fairhair
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Harald Fairhair was a Norwegian king. According to traditions current in Norway and Iceland in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, he reigned from c. 872 to 930 and was the first King of Norway. Suppo
Eric Bloodaxe
…historical obscurity stands in sharp contrast to the wealth of legendary depictions in the kings' sagas, in which he takes part in the sagas of his father Harald Fairhair and his younger half-brother Haakon the Good. These include the late 12th-century Norwegian synoptics – Historia Norwegiæ (perhaps c. 1170), Theodoricus…
Harald Fairhair (Right) receiving Norway from his father (Left) in an illustration fourteenth-century Flateyjarbók.
Harald Fairhair as imagined by Morris Meredith Williams
A scene from Heimskringla: King Gryting is brought before Harald after being defeated in battle.
Harald Haarfager later in his life