01 · Seal
Norse / Norway
Norse societies of the Viking Age and the Kingdom of Norway are related subjects. They are not one continuous government, and this page does not date a raid.
An original geometric mark for this room. It is not a historical seal, a flag, or an artifact. The opening is a film. Its credit is on the frame.
Time-lapse of the aurora in Norway. CC0, Christer Olsen. Twelve seconds, silent. A sky, not a rune text, and not a voyage. CC0 · Christer Olsen
02 · Founding
Founding
The Viking Age in Scandinavia is a standard survey topic. A Norwegian kingdom forms in that same broad literature, on a timetable this stub does not set.
No king or year is stated.
The Geirangerfjord. A fjord in Norway. No route of a voyage is drawn on this plate. CC BY-SA 3.0 · FataMorgana
03 · Peak
Peak
Surveys describe Norse travel by sea across a wide map. How far, and who was met, changes by source. This room shows no ship and draws no route.
Typography here is a homage, not a rune text.
Preikestolen above Lysefjord. A cliff people visit in modern Norway. Not a map of Norse travel. CC BY-SA 4.0 · Andreas Tille
04 · Object
Two objects
The Metropolitan Museum of Art describes this as a Viking sword of the 10th century, European, probably Scandinavia, in steel, copper, silver, and niello. The place and the century are the museum’s. No voyage is drawn. A second piece is an ax head the Met calls Scandinavian, 11th–12th century, in steel and silver.
The sword is not the Kingdom of Norway, and the mark in the hall is not a rune text.
Viking sword. 10th century. Probably Scandinavia. Rogers Fund, 1955. The Met’s record. The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Open Access · public domain
05 · Turning
Turning
Christianization, unions with neighboring crowns, and a later independent kingdom are the survey arc. Each of those turns has arguments about cause.
Older gods, including Odin, belong to descriptive belief history and are not mocked or preached here.
Borgund stave church. A later medieval wooden church. Belief on this page is descriptive. The building is not a sermon. CC BY-SA 2.0 · Eduardo
06 · To the present
To the present
The Kingdom of Norway is the modern country people mean by this seal. Its constitution and elections are civic facts to be cited in detail later, not a pamphlet.
No office or statute is stated.
Aurora over Storfjorden and the Lyngen Alps, March 2012. A sky over Norway, not a rune text. CC BY-SA 3.0 · Ximonic (Simo Räsänen)