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Hastein
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Also known as Haesten, Hæstenn, Hæsting, Hasting, Alsting, Aflingus, Afflengo, Hastein Ragnarsson

thumb|Hastein in Luna, Italy ca 859.Histoire Populaire de la France1st edition (1862), author: Ch. LahureHastein (Old Norse: Hásteinn, also recorded as Hastingus, Anstign, Haesten, Hæsten, Hæstenn or Hæsting and alias Alsting) was a Viking chieftain of the late 9th century who made several raiding voyages.

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  • Early life
  • Spain and the Mediterranean
  • Loire and Seine
  • England
  • Legacy
  • In popular culture
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thumb|Hastein in Luna, Italy ca 859.Histoire Populaire de la France1st edition (1862), author: Ch. LahureHastein (Old Norse: Hásteinn, also recorded as Hastingus, Anstign, Haesten, Hæsten, Hæstenn or Hæsting and alias Alsting) was a Viking chieftain of the late 9th century who made several raiding voyages.

== Early life == Little is known of Hastein's early life. He is described as a Dane in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, but the 11th-century chronicler Raoul Glaber states that Hastein may have been born in the Pays de Troyes (county of Troyes), in modern-day France, a claim at odds with sources identifying him as Scandinavian.

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