The Norwegian Crusade (1107-1110), led by
Sigurd I, passed through
Moorish Iberia on their way to the Holy Land.
They stormed and took the Sintra castle. They won a battle in Lisbon against a Moorish/Christian garrison.
Sigurd was eighteen or nineteen years old at the time. He became king of Norway at thirteen. Sigurd the Crusader was a Norwegian
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