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HARALD I . (850-933), surnamed Haarfager (of the beautiful hair ), first king over Norway, succeeded on the death of his father Halfdan the Black in A.D. 86o to the sovereignty of several small and somewhat scattered kingdoms, which had come into his father's hands through conquest,and inheritance
south
east
hair until he was sole king of Norway, and that ten years later he was justified in trimming it; whereupon he exchanged the epithet " Shockhead " for the one by which he is usually known. In 866 he made the first of a series of conquests over the many petty kingdoms which then composed Norway; and in 872', after a great
refuge
Scotland itseit; and from these winter quarters sallied forth to harry Norway as well as the rest of northern Europe. Their numbers were increased by malcontents from Norway, who resented Harald's claim of rights of taxation over lands which the possessors appear to have previously held in absolute ownership. At last Harald was forced to make an expedition to the west to clear the islands and Scottish mainland of Vikings. Numbers of them fled to Iceland, which grew into an independent commonwealth, while the Scottish isles fell under Norwegian
rule
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