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With large crowds attending, Norway lays King Harald to rest
A procession on foot from the royal palace to Oslo Cathedral started at 1200 local time (1000 GMT), punctuated by the sound of cannons being fired from Oslo's Akershus fortress.
A smaller procession, walking to the rhythm of Frederic Chopin's Funeral March, accompanied the coffin to the royal crypt at Akershus Fortress overlooking Oslo harbour.
Harald, a reformer who spent more than three decades on the throne after gradually emerging from the shadow of his popular and charismatic father, died at a time of multiple crises for the Norwegian royal family.
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