Talk:House Harkonnen

"Demise"
I'm just re-reading Heretics of Dune in which the characters take refuge in an underground Harkonnen no-globe, built during the time of the God Emperor. This means that though the Harkonnens weren't a Great House any more they must've still been a very wealthy house minor - rich enough to both build an Ixian no-globe and hide it's purchase and transport from the God Emperor. From evidence in that book they were still up to their nasty tricks of tormenting people (hunting humans in the woods) and perverse sexual habits. Gymnophoria (talk) 23:21, August 19, 2016 (UTC)

In the first Dune book, it explocitly states that the Harkonnens had been on Arrakis for 80 years. The change of fief to House Atreides occurred in the year 10,191.

It is thus a simple matter of Mathematics to deduce that House Harkonnen was granted the fief in the year 10,111 (or thereabouts), and NOT 10,130 as stated in this page. It would also not have been Vladimire nor his father Dimitri who restored House Harkonnen's fortunes. Vladimire would have been 1 year old at the time, and while Dimitri's birth date is not given, it is likely he was only young at the time and his father was still the Siridar Baron.86.28.116.116 17:36, December 25, 2016 (UTC)

Possible Swedish origins for the name?
"It has been suggested that the Harkonnen name comes from Sweden as a derivation of Hakkon"

Where is this coming from? It doesn't make much sense, Hakkon is not at all a typically Swedish name. In fact, I can't find a single individual within the publicly available Swedish census who has that name, given name or family name. The closest thing is the Norwegian given name Haakon, of which the Swedish variety is Håkan. 37.250.118.137 23:34, 29 October 2021 (UTC)