The Hunt for Sigurd Jorsalfare

Sigurd Jorsalfare was the first European king to enlist in the Crusades.

In 1108, at the age of eighteen, he led 60 ships out of Bergen, on their way to Jerusalem. Three years later, he returns victorious, but all the ships and most of the men are gone. And the king himself – has he gone mad? The author Øystein Morten has travelled in Sigurd’s footsteps and uses all methods to give a truer picture of the mythical king. The result is a deeply original and vivid narrative from our most dramatic past.