Harold

(har öld) I., King of England, surnamed HAREFOOT on account of his fleetne in running, was 2d son of Canute the Great, and s. to the throne in 1037. He D. 3 years later.-H. II., son of Godwin, Earl of Kent, was proclaimed king of England in 1066, on the death 0 000 Fig. 379. CORONATION OF HAROLD, (Bayeux tapestry.) of Edward the Confe or; and in the same year utterly defeated an invasion of the Norsemen, only to be a few days later overthrown himself by William Duke of Norm andy, near Hastings, on the 14th Oct. [s. 440]