Haakon IV Haakonsson

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(born 1204, Norway — died December, 1263, Orkney Islands) King of Norway (1217 – 63). After he became king, his mother answered doubts about his paternity by passing through an ordeal of hot irons. He established Norwegian sovereignty over Iceland and Greenland (1261 – 62) and died defending the Hebrides and the Isle of Man from the Scots. He was a noted patron of the arts, and his reign began the "golden age" in medieval Norwegian history.

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