Harald Hardråde died at Stamford Bridge in 1066, so this penning belongs to the reign of his son Olaf Kyrre, whose long and unusually peaceful rule — remarkable by Norwegian standards — ran from 1067 to 1093. Skaare 13 is among the more primitive of the Norwegian medieval series, struck at a time when Scandinavian minting practice was still heavily influenced by Anglo-Saxon dies and moneyer conventions absorbed through decades of cross-Channel contact.
Harald Hardråde died at Stamford Bridge in 1066, so this penning belongs to the reign of his son Olaf Kyrre, whose long and unusually peaceful rule — remarkable by Norwegian standards — ran from 1067 to 1093. Skaare 13 is among the more primitive of the Norwegian medieval series, struck at a time when Scandinavian minting practice was still heavily influenced by Anglo-Saxon dies and moneyer conventions absorbed through decades of cross-Channel contact.