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| {{Populace|photo = [[Image:Halfdanatpennsic.jpg|300px]]| photocaption = Sir Halfdan fighting challenges at Pennsic XXXVII| location = [[Calafia]] | households = Knight of the First Order, Hospitaller of St. John of Caid | status = Active | device = [[Image:Halfdan_Arms_1_-185x202.png]]| devicecaption =Per Pale Azure and Argent, a Dragons Head Jessant-de-Lys between three
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| Sir Halfdan was the second Knight of
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| the First Order of the [[Hospitalers of St. John of Caid]] and has served within
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| the Shield wall and as a spearmen. He
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| has found light again with the
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| marriage of Nonne Reerdan. With a lovely
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| consort such as her he has once again
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| taken up sword and shield and began
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| fighting in the tournaments of Caid, as
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| well as teaching his squires.
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| ==Persona==
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| Halfdan Haraldsson, is the 5th and
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| last generation in a long family line of
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| men to search for their fortune in the
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| grand court of the Byzantine Emperors
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| in Constantinople, as members of the
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| Varangian Guard.
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| He was born in year
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| of our Lord 1162, in the seaport village
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| of Lindos on the island of Rhodes. At
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| the time his father, Harald Sigurdsson,
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| was a Varangian Guardsmen sworn to
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| the service of the Byzantine Emperor
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| Manuel I. Halfdan's mother, Anna
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| Thessalonica, was the sixteen-year-old
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| daughter of a wealthy merchant on the
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| island.
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| After his tour of duty, Halfdan's father
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| went back to his home in Hedeby
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| Denmark. His father was pretty much
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| unknown to the boy until, when at the age of
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| ten, his mother was forced to send him
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| to live with him.
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| At the age of ten, Halfdan was
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| rather big for his age, and apparently a
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| bit of a bully. Off to his fathers he
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| went, where he discovered that he was no
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| longer the biggest kid around, and was
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| constantly pummeled black and blue. Over the next seven years, Halfdan continued to
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| grow and ravenously studied the arts
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| of war. First, for his own protection,
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| but later to prepare himself for the
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| chosen profession of a warrior. Naturally his first teacher was his
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| father, and after he learned everything
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| he could teach, Halfdan studied with every
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| other warrior he could find in Hedeby.
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| At
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| the age of eighteen he traveled to
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| Constantinople to join the Varangian
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| Guard of Emperor Alexius II. He was part
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| of the army that drove the Normans
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| out of Greece in 1185. Then he was off
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| to fight the Bulgars.
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| In 1190 he left the
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| Varangian Guard and went to Rhodes
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| to visit his mother. It was while visiting
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| her that Richard the Lionheart
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| came to Rhodes to recruit mercenaries
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| for the 3rd Crusade. He eagerly signed
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| on.
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| In 1191, at the battle of Arsouf, Halfdan
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| was wounded by an arrow. Luckily, the Hospitallers were part of this
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| campaign and were able to remove the
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| arrow and treat the wound. It was at
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| this time that Halfdan was befriended by many
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| of their Order. Over the following
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| months Halfdan witnessed their great charity
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| and caring for their fellow Crusaders.
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| In the year of our Lord 1192 they
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| granted his request to join their ranks.
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| After many years in Outremer, the
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| Order eventually relocated Halfdan to the Kingdom of
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| Caid.
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