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Guttorm Haraldsson was the first son of King
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and Åsa, daughter of
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, who was the first
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. Harald had wrested
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in
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King
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. Harald made Guttorm king over Rånrike and gave him the responsibility of defending southeast Norway from Sweden. Guttorm fell in a sea battle against the sea-king Solve Huntiofsson (''Solve Klove''), son of Huntiof, King of Nordmøre. Solve Klove had earlier escaped capture at the
First battle of Solskjel The First Battle of Solskjel (''Slaget ved Solskjel'') was the first engagement in Harald Fairhair's attempt to subjugate western Norway to his rule. The two kings of Nordmøre and Romsdal had joined forces to stop the fleet of king Harald, who ...
(ca. 870) in which both King Huntiof and King Nokkve of Romsdal had been slain.


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* Sturluson, Snorri.
Heimskringla: History of the Kings of Norway
', translated
Lee M. Hollander Lee Milton Hollander (November 8, 1880 – October 19, 1972) was an American philologist who specialized in Old Norse studies. Hollander was for many years head of the Department of Germanic Languages at the University of Texas at Austin. ...
. Reprinted
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, Austin, 1992.


Related Reading

*Finlay, Alison (editor and translator) ''Fagrskinna, a Catalogue of the Kings of Norway'' (Brill Academic. 2004) *Hermannsson, Halldór (2009) ''Bibliography of the sagas of the kings of Norway'' (BiblioBazaar) *Jones, Gwyn (1984) ''A History of the Vikings'' (Oxford University Press. 2nd ed) . {{DEFAULTSORT:Guttorm Haraldsson 9th-century Norwegian nobility 10th-century Norwegian nobility Fairhair dynasty Norwegian petty kings