A List of People and Characters Named Harold
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Harold is a personal name derived from the Old English name Hereweald, derived from the Germanic elements here "army" and weald "power, brightness".[1] The Old Norse cognate, Haraldr, was also common among settlers in the Danelaw. Diminutives of Harold are Harry, Hank[citation needed] and Hal. The Old High German form is Heriwald or Heriold, from hari "army" and wald- "power, brightness". The Germanic name is recorded very early, as the name of Cariovalda (for Proto-Germanic *harja-waldaz), a king of the Batavi in Tacitus (1st century), and later (7th century), as Arioald, as the name of a king of the Lombards,[2] and in the 10th century as the name of Harald Bluetooth, as runic haraltr (ᚼᛅᚱᛅᛚᛏᚱ) in the Jelling stone inscription.
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