Learnings: King Harald Fairhair

King Harald Fairhair as represented in Assassin's Creed Valhalla together with an artistic map that includes the North Way / Contemporary

The history of King Harald Fairhair is as fabulous as it is dubious.

Facts and myths are very much intertwined in the accounts of his life. There is still a lot of work to do to sort potentially accurate raw materials from confused assertions and elaborate exaggerations.

Since it's impossible to know exactly what Harald looked like, the development team of Assassin's Creed: Valhalla used their imagination to create his image in the game. Here is the result of their work.