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The King's Choice (Norwegian: Kongens nei, meaning "The King's No" [4]) is a 2016 biographical war film directed by Erik Poppe. It is a co-production of Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Ireland, [ 1 ] [ 5 ] and was selected as the Norwegian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy Awards .
Instead of narrowly focusing on the king and major events of state, Sverris saga is a detailed and rich biography with a large cast of characters, elaborate scenes and dialogue. The saga is the most detailed in the depiction of the many battles Sverre led to win and retain the monarchy in the country, The saga is particularly detailed when it ...
House: Sverre: Father: Unås Sigurd II of Norway (claimed; dubious): Mother: Gunnhild: Religion: Roman Catholicism, excommunicated from AD1194, the King's dominions and Kingdom under Interdictum since AD1198, until his death, yet maintaining communion with the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (cf. Communion of the cults of Saint Olav and Saint Valdemar).
In 1177, Sverre Sigurdsson, who would later rule as king of Norway from 1184-1202, led the rebel Birkebeiner (Birkebeinerne) forces to Trøndelag where Sverre was hailed as king at Øretinget, the Thing (assembly) for Trøndelag. This was an important symbolic event as new Norwegian kings traditionally had been elected there.
King of Devil's Island (Kongen av Bastøy) Marius Holst: Stellan Skarsgård, Benjamin Helstad, Kristoffer Joner, Trond Nilssen: Drama: 17 December 2010 2011: I Travel Alone (Jeg reiser alene) Stian Kristiansen: Rolf Kristian Larsen, Gustaf Hammarsten, Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, Pål Sverre Valheim Hagen: Drama: 11 February 2011 Oslo, August 31st ...
King Sverre of Norway personally provided information to the writer, Icelandic abbot Karl Jónsson, and instructed him on the details of the saga, Brink added. "If one would anticipate to finding ...
A sculpture believed to be of King Haakon V Magnusson as Duke of Oslo, Oppland, Ryfylke, the Faroe Islands, and Shetland. Burial site of Haakon V Magnusson in Oslo. The House of Sverre (Norwegian: Sverreætten) [1] was a royal house or dynasty which ruled, at various times in history, the Kingdom of Norway, hereunder the kingdom's realms, and the Kingdom of Scotland.
Most of the kings in Norway also have the name Wahlgren or August as their second or third name. Among several problems, the house of King Harald I became patrilineally extinct already when Harald's grandson Harald II died in 970. [1] Another example is that King Sverre's claim of being the son of King Sigurd II is disputed by modern scholars. [2]