A powerful statement from the Middle Ages

In this video doctor Zoë Opačić of Birkbeck University of London and former director of the British Museum, Sir David Wilson, give their view on the royal hall and what it meant for the construction of a Norwegian national identity.

External links

• University Museum of Bergen
• Haakon IV on Wikipedia

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