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It was Haraldr Hárfagri of the Norse petty kingdom of Agder who fought a series of unification wars in the 860s and 870s to forge a single Norwegian kingdom by AD 872, and even then the kingdom still only comprised the southern third of modern Norway, with much of the rest forming part of a vast territory which was known to some as Kvenland.
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The Norse Viking kingdom of Oppland was literally the 'uppland', occupying the more mountainous terrain inland between Ringerike and Møre.
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The Viking kingdom of Alfheim has a name which literally means 'the home of Alf/Elf, the Alf-home', which links it directly to its earliest-known ruler, Alfgeir.
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The Jutes are first mentioned by Tacitus about AD 98, where they are referred to as the Eudoses, but by the end of the empire they had replaced the earlier Germanic Cimbri peoples in modern northern Denmark, migrating there from along the German Baltic coastline.
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At least six kings of the Geats are recorded in the epic poem, Beowulf, which was written down in England based on an oral tradition which kept the poem alive for about three centuries after it was composed.
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The name Agder predates the Norwegian language, originating in an Old Norse word which itself suggests a much older word, but its meaning is unknown.
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Norway gained full independence from Sweden on 7 June 1905, formally ending the Kalmar Union, before asking Prince Carl of Denmark to become the country's new king: he arrived during a blizzard on 25 November.
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The Norwegian civil war was all but over by 1217, with the state's subsequent rulers forging a series of connections with Sweden and Denmark which, in 1397, led to the creation of the Union of Kalmar.
