Episode 22
022 Fairhair's Heirs
The Scandinavian History Podcast · scandinavianhistorypodcast
May 21, 202135m 16s
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Show Notes
Harald Fairhair used his many sons as local rulers in his name. This worked well as long as he was still alive, but when he died, many of his sons found it hard to accept that their brother Erik should be the king of them all. It didn’t help that Erik didn’t do a very good job as king—or that he had a tendency toward fratricide, which earned him the nickname Bloodaxe.