Sverre of Norway

And during Snorri's boyhood, one of these rulers, Valdemar I, contributed to Henry's political destruction.

In Norway, Sverrir Sigurdsson had swept away the old social order and replaced it with one more highly centralized, had challenged the power of Rome without and that of his own nobles within, like Henry II of England and Frederick Barbarossa.

After Sverrir's death, an interregnum followed, but at last there came to the throne a monarch both powerful and enlightened, who extended the reforms of Sverrir, and having brought about unity and power, quickened the intellectual life of Norway with the fructifying influence of French and English literary models.

Under the patronage of this ruler, Hakon Hakonarson, the great romances, notably those of Chretien de Troyes, were translated into Norse, some of them passing over into Swedish, Danish, and Icelandic.

And during Snorri's boyhood, one of these rulers, Valdemar I, contributed to Henry's political destruction.

In Norway, Sverrir Sigurdsson had swept away the old social order and replaced it with one more highly centralized, had challenged the power of Rome without and that of his own nobles within, like Henry II of England and Frederick Barbarossa.

After Sverrir's death, an interregnum followed, but at last there came to the throne a monarch both powerful and enlightened, who extended the reforms of Sverrir, and having brought about unity and power, quickened the intellectual life of Norway with the fructifying influence of French and English literary models.

Under the patronage of this ruler, Hakon Hakonerson, the great romances, notably those of Chretien de Troyes, were translated into Norse, some of them passing over into Swedish, Danish, and Icelandic.

And during Snorri's boyhood, one of these rulers, Valdemar I, contributed to Henry's political destruction.

In Norway, Sverrir Sigurdsson had swept away the old social order and replaced it with one more highly centralized, had challenged the power of Rome without and that of his own nobles within, like Henry II of England and Frederick Barbarossa.

After Sverrir's death, an interregnum followed, but at last there came to the throne a monarch both powerful and enlightened, who extended the reforms of Sverrir, and having brought about unity and power, quickened the intellectual life of Norway with the fructifying influence of French and English literary models.

Under the patronage of this ruler, Hakon Hakonarson, the great romances, notably those of Chretien de Troyes, were translated into Norse, some of them passing over into Swedish, Danish, and Icelandic.

And during Snorri's boyhood, one of these rulers, Valdemar I, contributed to Henry's political destruction.

In Norway, Sverrir Sigurdsson had swept away the old social order and replaced it with one more highly centralized, had challenged the power of Rome without and that of his own nobles within, like Henry II of England and Frederick Barbarossa.

After Sverrir's death, an interregnum followed, but at last there came to the throne a monarch both powerful and enlightened, who extended the reforms of Sverrir, and having brought about unity and power, quickened the intellectual life of Norway with the fructifying influence of French and English literary models.

Under the patronage of this ruler, Hakon Hakonerson, the great romances, notably those of Chretien de Troyes, were translated into Norse, some of them passing over into Swedish, Danish, and Icelandic.

And during Snorri's boyhood, one of these rulers, Valdemar I, contributed to Henry's political destruction.

In Norway, Sverrir Sigurdsson had swept away the old social order and replaced it with one more highly centralized, had challenged the power of Rome without and that of his own nobles within, like Henry II of England and Frederick Barbarossa.

After Sverrir's death, an interregnum followed, but at last there came to the throne a monarch both powerful and enlightened, who extended the reforms of Sverrir, and having brought about unity and power, quickened the intellectual life of Norway with the fructifying influence of French and English literary models.

Under the patronage of this ruler, Hakon Hakonerson, the great romances, notably those of Chretien de Troyes, were translated into Norse, some of them passing over into Swedish, Danish, and Icelandic.

And during Snorri's boyhood, one of these rulers, Valdemar I, contributed to Henry's political destruction.

In Norway, Sverrir Sigurdsson had swept away the old social order and replaced it with one more highly centralized, had challenged the power of Rome without and that of his own nobles within, like Henry II of England and Frederick Barbarossa.

After Sverrir's death, an interregnum followed, but at last there came to the throne a monarch both powerful and enlightened, who extended the reforms of Sverrir, and having brought about unity and power, quickened the intellectual life of Norway with the fructifying influence of French and English literary models.

Under the patronage of this ruler, Hakon Hakonerson, the great romances, notably those of Chretien de Troyes, were translated into Norse, some of them passing over into Swedish, Danish, and Icelandic.

And during Snorri's boyhood, one of these rulers, Valdemar I, contributed to Henry's political destruction.

In Norway, Sverrir Sigurdsson had swept away the old social order and replaced it with one more highly centralized, had challenged the power of Rome without and that of his own nobles within, like Henry II of England and Frederick Barbarossa.

After Sverrir's death, an interregnum followed, but at last there came to the throne a monarch both powerful and enlightened, who extended the reforms of Sverrir and, having brought about unity and power, quickened the intellectual life of Norway with the fructifying influence of French and English literary models.

Under the patronage of this ruler, Hakon Hakonerson, the great romances, notably those of Chretien de Troyes, were translated into Norse, some of them passing over into Swedish, Danish, and Icelandic.

And during Snorri's boyhood, one of these rulers, Valdemar I, contributed to Henry's political destruction.

In Norway, Sverrir Sigurdsson had swept away the old social order and replaced it with one more highly centralized, had challenged the power of Rome without and that of his own nobles within, like Henry II of England and Frederick Barbarossa.

After Sverrir's death, an interregnum followed, but at last there came to the throne a monarch both powerful and enlightened, who extended the reforms of Sverrir, and having brought about unity and power, quickened the intellectual life of Norway with the fructifying influence of French and English literary models.

Under the patronage of this ruler, Hakon Hakonarson, the great romances, notably those of Chretien de Troyes, were translated into Norse, some of them passing over into Swedish, Danish, and Icelandic.