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And by all accounts, he looked fabulous doing it. Fairhair and his successors would still have to deal with rowdy vassals for generations, like our pal Sigurd, before power was really consolidated. He plays up an idea of national unity and shared accomplishment that might seem familiar to us in the present, but wasn't at all common in Europe until hundreds of years later. You don't have to go to as much trouble bringing a bunch of fractious warlords under a single crown if you can get them to like you enough, avoiding a big dust up. Valhalla shows him as charismatic, magnanimous, but uncompromising. But I kind of hope he keeps it like that even after having achieved his goals. Per the sagas, he swore never to cut it until he was the king of all Norway. If the stories are to be believed, he was a very tall, handsome man with a long mane of golden, flowing hair.
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And Ubisoft seems to have gotten his look right. They were also probably mad that he was prettier than them.
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Waves of Norse settlers arriving in the British Isles, Frisia, and Northern France around this time very well may have been inspired by a desire to escape increasing royal authority back home.
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Sigurd in Valhalla doesn't seem to see it that way, and certainly many didn't. What Harald actually accomplished was almost more like securing an alliance of all the local jarls in which he would be a first among equals. Norway's rugged, fractured geography makes it very difficult to administer from a central location without modern communications and infrastructure, which is part of why the Norse became so good at making boats. While commonly recognized as the first King of Norway, the semi-legendary Harald Fairhair didn't exactly wield absolute power.
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