king of Norway from 1015 to 1028, and Harald, who was crowned as Harald III of Norway in 1046. Harald’s mother tongue, Old Norse, is close to the language still spoken today in Iceland. The epithet ...

His short reign gave his descendents, who included Harald Hardrada, King of Norway, a claim to the English throne. When Harold Godwinson became king of England on the death of Edward the Confessor ...