Håkon Ier of Norway

Haakon Ier (Håkon den Gode, towards 920 - 961), called the good , was the third king of Norway.

Young person wire of Harald Ier to the beautiful hair, he escaped the murder by his elder half-brother Eric chops bloody to be high by the king Athelstan of England, like part of an peace agreement reached by his father, and he was then called Adalsteinfostre . The English king made him follow a Christian education and with the news of died of his/her father provides him boats and troops to organize a forwarding against the new suzerain. On its arrival in Norway, Haakon obtained the support of the landowners in their promising to reduce their taxes.

Eric left and then concentrated his efforts on the British Isles. Its sons were combined with the Danes but were systematically beaten by Haakon which succeeds in very safe to impose the Christianisme which raised an opposition that it rather extremely did not feel to surmount it. He was killed with the Bataille of Fitje. A poem represents it accommodated by the gods of the sky in the Valhalla.

The problem of its succession was solved by the rise of Harald II, third wire of Eric, on the throne. However the Norwegians, who were tired of many years of war, accommodated the Danish force of invasion led by Harold Bluetooth.

It would be at the origin of the unification of the Christian Christmas and of the festival of the Midtvintersblot (festival of the middle of the winter), where the imp Julenisse distributed gifts.

Sources

Heimskringla of Snorri Sturluson translates old introduced and annotated Icelandic:

- History of Hakon the Good in History of kings de Norvège by François-Xavier Dillmann " The paddle of the peuples" Gallimard Parsi 2000 ISBN 2-07-073211-8.

- Sagas off the Norse Kings: Hakon the Good Chapter IV (english language version).

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