Harrald Halfdrowned

King; Harrald Halfdrowned
Monarch
Title	King of the Iron Islands (possibly)
Personal Information
Died	Lann's Point
Culture	ironborn
Family
Dynasty	House Hoare (possibly)
References
Book	The World of Ice & Fire (mentioned)

Harrald Halfdrowned was an ironborn king.

Although unconfirmed, he was probably a hereditary King of the Iron Islands from House Hoare, since at the time of his reign the Westerlands and the Reach were ruled by Andal kings.^[1]^[2]

History

Harrald and his heir were beheaded by Lancel IV Lannister, King of the Rock, with a single stroke of Brightroar, the Valyrian steel greatsword of House Lannister, during the Battle of Lann's Point^[1] (however, it was probably a common steel sword of the same name, which has been conflated with the Valyrian blade).^{[N 1]}

↑ Lancel IV Lannister and Gyles III Gardener were contemporaries.^[3]^[4] As stated by Maester Yandel, they participated in a war involving two kings from the riverlands and three from Dorne,^[2] indicating an era prior to the riverlands being ruled by House Durrandon and Dorne being ruled by House Martell (centuries before Aegon's Conquest). Ser Eustace Osgrey says that Lancel IV or Lancel V wielded a Valyrian steel sword,^[3] and Yandel writes that Lancel IV wielded the Valyrian steel sword Brightroar and that House Lannister had acquired the blade in the century before the Doom of Valyria (which occurred a century before the Conquest).^[1] According to Elio García, before the Valyrian version of it, the Lannisters had probably wielded other swords named Brightroar, made instead of common steel, and the stories of their actions became merged with the last one (like with Ice or Lady Forlorn).^[5]