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Harald Fairhair (Old Norse: Haraldr Hárfagri; c. 850 – c. 932) was a Norwegian king. According to traditions current in Norway and Iceland in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, he reigned from c. 872 to 930 and was the first King of Norway. Supposedly, two of his sons, Eric Bloodaxe and Haakon the Good, succeeded Harald to become kings after his death.

Much of Harald's biography is uncertain. A couple of praise poems by his court poet Þorbjörn Hornklofi survive in fragments, but the extant accounts of his life come from sagas set down in writing around three centuries after his lifetime. His life is described in several of the Kings' sagas, none of them older than the twelfth century. Their accounts of Harald and his life differ on many points, but it is clear that in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries Harald was regarded as having unified Norway into one kingdom.

Since the nineteenth century, when Norway was in a personal union with Sweden, Harald has become a national icon of Norway and a symbol of independence. Though the king's sagas and medieval accounts have been critically scrutinised during the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, Harald maintains a reputation as the father of the Norwegian nation. At the turn of the 21st century, a few historians have tried to argue that Harald Fairhair did not exist as a historical figure.

Tora Mosterstong (nórdico antiguo: Þóra Morstrstǫng Káradóttir — también Thora Mostaff​ — n. 895) fue una de las concubinas de Harald I de Noruega y madre de Haakon el Bueno, el más joven de los hijos del rey Harald y que fue el tercer rey de una Noruega unificada (c. 935 – 961). También fue madre de Ulfljotr Haraldsson.​

Según la Saga de Harald de los Cabellos Hermosos, Tora era hija de Horda-Kåre, un importante e influyente caudillo vikingo de Hordaland. Aunque Snorri habla de ella como concubina y sirvienta, algo que comporta interpretaciones erróneas, hay que tener en cuenta que Horda-Kåre era uno de los más viejos aliados del rey Harald y uno de los oficiales de alto rango que le apoyaron en la batalla de Hafrsfjord. El hecho que Tora compartiera espacio con el rey, debió ser parte de la complicidad de los clanes familiares para mantener buenas relaciones según la tradición nórdica.​