the ledger of connections
The Connections of Harald Fairhair
King of Norway Every person recorded alongside Harald Fairhair in the archive: family, teachers, students, influences, and the contemporaries who shared the same years.
Family & Connections
People recorded alongside Harald Fairhair in the ledgers of the archive.
- Parents
- Halfdan the Black, Ragnhild Sigurdsdotter
- Spouses
- Gyda Eiriksdatter, Åsa Håkonsdatter, Svanhild Øysteinsdotter, Ragnhild Eiriksdatter, Åshild Ringsdatter, Snøfrid Svåsesdotter
- Children
- Eric Bloodaxe, Haakon the Good, Halfdan Haraldsson the Black, Bjørn Farmann, Olaf Haraldsson Geirstadalf, Halvdan Hålegg, Guttorm Haraldsson, Halfdan Hvide (?), Sigrød Haraldsson, Ólöf árbót Haraldsdóttir, Rørek Haraldsson, Sigtrygg Haraldsson
Alive in the same years
Records in the archive whose lifetimes overlapped the years 851 CE to 933 CE.
Medieval era
Mahavira
800 CE – 875 CE
Mathematician
Medieval era
Al-Mutawakkil
822 CE – December 11, 861 CE
10th Abbasid caliph (822–861, r. 847–861)
Medieval era
Alfred the Great
849 CE – October 26, 899 CE
King of Wessex (r. 872–901)
Medieval era
Al-Razi
866 CE – 925 CE
Persian polymath, physician, chemist and philosopher (854-925)
Medieval era
Rudaki
859 CE – 941 CE
Persian poet, the father of Persian poetry
Medieval era
Ismail Samani
849 CE – November 24, 907 CE
Amir of the Samanid Empire from 892 to 907
Medieval era
Al-Mutanabbi
920 CE – 965 CE
Arab poet (c. 915 – 965)
Medieval era
Al-Jahiz
775 CE – 868 CE
Arabic writer (776–869)
Medieval era
Fatima al-Fihri
800 CE – 880 CE
Legendary founder of the al-Qarawiyyin mosque
Medieval era
Æthelstan
895 CE – October 27, 939 CE
King of Wessex and first king of England (r. 924-939)
Medieval era
Æthelflæd
870 CE – June 12, 918 CE
Mercian monarch
Medieval era
Hywel Dda
880 CE – 950 CE
10th-century Welsh king