page_title: Norwegian Crusade
section_title: The journey back to Norway
hierarchical_section_title: Norwegian Crusade / The journey back to Norway
caption_attribution_description: Gerhard Munthe: Illustration for Magnussønnens saga. Snorre 1899-edition. nn: «Kong Sigurd og mennene hans rir inn i Miklagard.» nb: «Kong Sigurd og hans menn rir inn i Miklagard.»
context_page_description: The Norwegian Crusade, led by Norwegian King Sigurd I, was a crusade or a pilgrimage that lasted from 1107 to 1111, in the aftermath of the First Crusade. The Norwegian Crusade marks the first time a European king personally went to the Holy Land.
context_section_description: After this, Sigurd and his men sailed to Constantinople (Old Norse: Miklagard), where Sigurd left all of his ships and valuable figureheads, and many of his men, and then made his way back to Norway by land, arriving there in 1111.
caption: King Sigurd and his men ride into Miklagard by Gerhard Munthe.
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