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I do think his mother misspelled it! The Norwegian spelling is Harald, so Harold must be the old English version. I didn't find Herald as a proper noun, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist somewhere.

Oh look! There's a tubby virgin!

It's not quite as imposing as it looks here. It's part of a retaining wall that runs beside the drive to the buildings. Behind the buildings there is one even higher that holds up an even higher hill. Good thing it's not a landslide-prone area.

Yes! It seems likely that newspapers will continue to decline, as readers and advertisers go online more and more. It 's interesting, though, that books are still going strong! It's just the bookstores that have disappeared. I so miss browsing in a good bookstore.

re: name spelling -- there is someone in our family / down in an in-law side with that exact name spelling -- first time I met him .. just thought nobody in his family could spell !
But, it has been that way for years -- so, guess they knew what they were doing!