Harold

From the Old English name Hereweald, derived from the elements here "army" and weald "powerful, mighty" [1] [2] [3] [4] . The Old Norse cognate Haraldr was also common among Scandinavian settlers in England [5] . This was the name of five kings of Norway and three kings of Denmark. It was also borne by two kings of England, both of whom were from mixed Scandinavian and Anglo-Saxon backgrounds, including Harold II who lost the Battle of Hastings (and was killed in it), which led to the Norman Conquest. After the conquest the name died out, but it was eventually revived in the 19th century.

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1. Searle, William George. Onomasticon Anglo-Saxonicum. Cambridge, 1897, page 294.
2. Withycombe, Elizabeth Gidley. The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names. Oxford, 1945, page 65.
3. Bosworth and Toller. An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary (1898), page 532, available from http://lexicon.ff.cuni.cz/texts/oe_bosworthtoller_about.html.
4. Bosworth and Toller. An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary (1898), page 1171, available from http://lexicon.ff.cuni.cz/texts/oe_bosworthtoller_about.html.
5. Hanks, Patrick and Flavia Hodges. A Dictionary of First Names. Oxford, 1990, page 149.

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