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The crown put on a three‑year‑old that cost him a lifetime of war
A king crowned at three stands in a Bergen house with too few men while his brother waits outside - what did it cost him? (keyword: medieval Norway)
The crown put on a three‑year‑old that cost him a lifetime of war
In this episode, we follow the life of Sigurd Haraldsson from his proclamation as a child-king to the moment violence closes in on him in Bergen. The episode traces the political maneuvers, fosterage, rival claimants and kinship rivalries that made a child’s crown the spark for decades of war and asks what legacy that cost created.
Person: Sigurd Haraldsson (Sigurd Munn)
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