Haakon Ericsson
Komstad Runestone
.Haakon Ericsson (
Knut the Great
.
Biography
Håkon Eiriksson was from a dynasty of Norwegian rulers in the eastern part of
Sveinn Hákonarson, became kings of Norway under Sweyn Forkbeard. In 1014 or 1015 Eirik Håkonson left Norway and joined Knut for his campaign in England. The north English earldom of Northumbria
was given by Knut to Eirik after he won control of the north. Eirik remained as earl of Northumbria until his death between 1023 and 1033.
As his father's successor in Norway, Håkon Eiriksson ruled as a Danish vassal from 1012 to 1015, with
Battle of the Helgeå
, Norwegian nobles rallied behind Knut.
He is recorded as being the ruler of the Sudreyar from 1016 until 1030.[3] In 1028, Håkon Eiriksson returned as Knut's vassal ruler of Norway.
Håkon died in a shipwreck in the
Orkney Islands and the Scottish mainland, in either late 1029 or early 1030.[4]
Notes
- ^ M. K. Lawson, Cnut: England's Viking King (2004), p. 93
- ^ Olav den Hellige - Norges evige konge Archived 2010-04-08 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Woolf (2007) p. 246
- ^ "Trøndelag (D4DR Media)". Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 27 February 2010.
References
- Woolf, Alex (2007), From Pictland to Alba, 789–1070, The New Edinburgh History of Scotland, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN 978-0-7486-1234-5
Further reading
- Forte, A. Viking Empires (Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005)
- Christiansen, Eric The Norsemen in the Viking Age (Blackwell Publishing. 2002)
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