One famous and interesting story that might be new and interesting to those who are already here and aren't middle-aged or older Norwegians is about one of the

One famous and interesting story that might be new and interesting to those who are already here and aren't middle-aged or older Norwegians is about one of the Viking kings (Sigurd Jorsalfar) who got his horse shod with golden shoes and instructed the blacksmith to make sure one of them would be loose enough to fall off while they rode through Miklagard ("Big Town, today Istanbul) so that he could pretend he didn't care when someone made him aware of it.