Strut-Harald

Strut-Harald (Cone Harald from his cone-shaped helmet of gold) was a semi-legendary jarl or petty king who ruled over the Danish territory of Scania (in what is now southern Sweden) during the late 10th century CE (approximately 975-986). Some of the Norse sagas identify him as the son of Gorm the Old, making him a brother or half-brother of Harald Bluetooth.

According to Snorri Sturluson, Strut-Harald was jarl of "Jomsborg in Wendland."[1]

Strut-Harald was the father of Sigvaldi Strut-Haraldsson and Thorkell the Tall, both of whom became prominent members of the Jomsviking order and who fought against the Norwegian Haakon Jarl.

Svein Tjugeskjegg [aka Swein Forkbeard] succeeded him in his Scanian territories.

Notes

  1. King Olaf Trygvasson's Saga Part I, 38.
gollark: Hmm, some of it is just "spam" but some of these strings are... interesting.
gollark: If my computer is somehow malwareized by `strings`ing a binary, I'm blaming you.
gollark: Using a buggy library.
gollark: Hmm. Apparently it USED to parse it by default.
gollark: In a library it used.

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