In the 12th and 13th centuries, Norway was racked by civil war. It’s a period chronicled in an ancient Norse text called the Sverris Saga, which is named after king Sverre Sigurdsson. The saga tells ...

For 800 years he was the stuff of Norse legend. Now scientists say skeletal remains found in a well at Norway’s Sverresborg castle are those of the mysterious figure mentioned in a medieval saga. The ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Frank, the Marie Boroff Professor Emeritus of English at Yale University, explores the minute details of Old ...

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