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Epic card · History
Harald Hardrada, an Epic card
Harald Sigurdsson, also known as Harald Hardrada or Harald III, was King of Norway from 1046 to 1066.
- Rarity
- Epic
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 81
- DEF
- 100
- Power
- 181
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 580,000
Power 181 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 90 % of WikiCards cards.
Harald Hardrada quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Harald Hardrada card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
In his ______, Adam of Bremen called him the "Thunderbolt of the North".
Answer
chronicle. In his chronicle, Adam of Bremen called him the "Thunderbolt of the North". From the Harald Hardrada article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Battle of Britain. Battle of Britain 95 · Thomas Paine 89 · Isabella I of Castile 86 · Harald Hardrada 81 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He unsuccessfully claimed the Danish throne until 1064 and the English throne in 1066.
- Before becoming king, Harald spent 15 years in exile as a mercenary and military commander in Kievan Rus' and chief of the Varangian Guard in the Byzantine Empire.
- In his chronicle, Adam of Bremen called him the "Thunderbolt of the North".
Why it is Epic
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Harald Hardrada article was read about 580,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 81 and blocks with 100: each hit it takes is cut by 40 %.
How to get Harald Hardrada
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Harald Hardrada (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Zeichner: C. I. Schive, Lithograf Bucher in Bergen, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
