Harald "Grenski" Gudrødarson

  Noted events in his life were:

• Web Reference: Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands, Harold "Grenske".
The Historia Norwegie names "Haroldum Grensca" as son of "Gudrodus", commenting that he acquired his nickname from having been brought up "in Grenlandia" [Historia Norwegie XV, p. 86]. Snorre names Harald as son of Gudröd & his wife, recording that, after his father's death, he fled to the Uplands and from there eastwards into Svithjod [Snorre, King Olav Trygvason's Saga Part I, 15, which states he was 18 years old at the time.]. Harald was murdered on the orders of Sigrid "Storrada/the Haughty," widow of Erik King of Sweden, to whom Harald "Grenske" proposed marriage (despite already being married to Asta Fudbransdatter, daughter of Budbrand Kula) [Snorre, King Olav Trygvason's Saga Part II, 48]. The Historia Norwegie records the marriage of "Haroldum Grensca" and "Asta filiam Gudbrandi Culu", and her second marriage to "Siwardus Scroffa rex montanus" who was the son of Halfdan, son of "Siwardus Risi…filius Haraldi Comati" [Historia Norwegie XV, p. 86].

• Background Information: ¹⁶⁰
Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, Harald "Grenski" ("The Grenlander") was raised in Grenland, Norway and was made under-king of Vingulmark, Vestfold, and agdir circa 960 by Harald "Bluetooth," King of Denmark. Harold was murdered circa 995 by his foster sister Sigrid Storrada "the Haughty," daughter of Skoglar-Toste. Harold married Asta, daughter of Gudbrand Kula of the Upplands and his wife Wlfhilde.

Harald married Ásta Gudbrandsdóttir, daughter of Gudbrand Kula and Unknown. (Ásta Gudbrandsdóttir was born about 970.)