Harold the Fairhaired
Norwegian king (c. 860-930) whose reign marks the chronological boundary of the Hervarar Saga's narrative scope.
Harold the Fairhaired is a pivotal chronological figure in the Norse literary tradition, serving primarily as a temporal reference point rather than a narrative subject in the sources that attest him. The Hervarar Saga ok Heidreks places him at approximately 860-930 CE and uses his reign as the boundary marker for its narrative scope, noting that its stories "deal almost exclusively with times anterior to Harold the Fairhaired" and the subsequent colonisation of Iceland (Hervarar Saga ok Heidreks, Stories And Ballads > Part I > General Introduction).
Harold the Fairhaired's genealogy is traced through the Hervarar Saga, which identifies him as the son of Halfdan the Black, himself the son of Guthroth and Asa (Hervarar Saga ok Heidreks, Stories And Ballads > Book V).
Appears in: Beings, Entities in Hervarar Saga ok Heiðreks, Norse Tradition