Sverris saga
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Sverris saga is one of the Kings' sagas. Its subject is King Sverre Sigurdsson of Norway and it is the main source for this period of Norwegian history. As the foreword tells us, the saga in its final
Title page to Sverre's saga, illus. Gerhard Munthe
Bagler
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The Bagli Party or Bagler was a faction or party during the Norwegian Civil Wars. The Bagler faction was made up principally of the Norwegian aristocracy, clergy and merchants.
Young Håkon Håkonsson being transported to safety from his enemies as imagined by 19th-century painter Knud Bergslien (1869)