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#norwegian-monarchy

Rape can leave lasting scars and destroy lives. It can be something the victim carries with them for their entire life. She portrayed the accused as a person who thinks he can do whatever he wants, but added: Marius Borg Hoiby is not a monster. None of us are. We're all human beings, with good and bad sides. He should not be judged for who he is, but for what he's done.

Excavations carried out in 2025 by the Arctic University Museum of Norway revealed that the artefacts came from a boat burial. The grave contained the skeleton of a woman placed inside a boat measuring about 5.5 metres in length. She had been buried together with a dog, suggesting the animal may have been an important companion in life.

"Cnut: The North Sea King" by Ryan Lavelle is a short and engaging biography of the most ambitious and successful Scandinavian leader of the Viking Age. Lavelle captures both the brutality and pragmatism that allowed Cnut to govern England effectively for almost two decades, despite being an outsider and a foreign conqueror. In 1066 and All That (1930), a parody book of English history,

The contact maintained by Princess Mette-Marit of Norway with the American financier Jeffrey Epstein even after his 2008 conviction for sex trafficking has not only made headlines in the national and international media, but has also triggered an unprecedented reaction in the Scandinavian country: direct criticism from Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stre, who chided the wife of Crown Prince Haakon and future queen consort for her poor judgment.

Archaeologists working beside the ruins of Selja Monastery - a major medieval pilgrimage site on the island of Selja, off Norway's western coast - have uncovered the remains of a previously undocumented stone structure just metres from the monastic complex. The discovery, made within the first days of a new research excavation, could add a fresh chapter to what scholars know about daily life and activity on the island during the monastic period.

A gold ring with a deep-blue, oval setting - decorated with fine spirals of filigree and tiny granulated beads - has been recovered from medieval deposits in Tønsberg, a historic town in southeastern Norway. The ring was found during an excavation in the modern town centre, where archaeologists have been investigating layers of urban life preserved beneath today's streets. The discovery was made within the protected archaeological area known as Tønsberg Medieval Town.