anciently Castrum Bilium, a secular town of Spain, in the province of Burgos, and bishopric of Calahorra. It contains two parish churches, one Augustinian convent, one hospital, and one house of refuge; and is the centre of one of the most beautiful and fertile spots in Spain. Pop. 6235.

HAROLD I., surnamed Hardfoot, was the second son of Canute the Great, by Algiva. On his father's death he usurped the English throne, which had been bequeathed to Hardicanute, and held it till his death in 1040. Nothing whatever is known with certainty about his character. The very reasons of his surname are disputed, some maintaining that he owed it to his swiftness of foot; others to the fact that his foot was covered with hair.

HAROLD II., the last Saxon king of England, was the second son of Godwin, Earl of Kent, and succeeded to the throne on the death of Edward the Confessor, January 5, 1066. His history is that of his country, and is given in minute detail in art. ENGLAND. His life has afforded the materials for one of the best of Sir E. L. Bulwer's historical novels,—that of Harold.