Norway

Norway is a Scandinavian unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the .
==History ==
===Prehistory===
During the Isu Era, the territory of modern-day Norway was inhabited by the Æsir, who primarily resided in the realm of Asgard and were led by Odin. At some point, the Æsir became engaged in a war with a rival group of Isu, the Vanir, which came to an end after Odin's political marriage to Freyja, securing peace between the two groups.Assassin's Creed: Valhalla – Database: Freyja The Æsir also regularly came into conflict with the Jötnar from Jotunheim, led by their king Suttungr,Assassin's Creed: Valhalla – A Feast to Remember and were sometimes the victims of schemes orchestrated by one of their own members, Loki, who over time developed an antagonistic relationship with Odin.Assassin's Creed: Valhalla – The Price of Wisdom
After their demise during the Great Catastrophe, which wiped out the entire Isu civilization,Assassin's Creed: Initiates – Timeline the Æsir would come to be revered as gods by humanity. Odin and his closest companions made up the main pantheon of gods in Norse and Germanic mythology and religion.Assassin's Creed: Valhalla Secretly however, Odin and his brethren sought to ensure their survival by seeding their genetic code into humanity's gene pool, ensuring they would be reborn as humans millennia later.Assassin's Creed: Valhalla – Animus Anomalies
===Middle Ages===
During the Viking Age, Norway consisted of multiple petty kingdoms and clans, each led by a jarl. Due to the conflicts between the various clans, as well as Scandinavia's unfavorable conditions, this period saw a major increase in maritime exploration by the Norse, who pillaged, looted, traded and settled as they went.Assassin's Creed: Valhalla – Database: Vikings The beginning of the Viking Age is traditionally dated as 793, when the first known Viking raid occurred in Lindisfarne, an island off the northeastern coast of England. One of Juhani Otso Berg's ancestors participated in the expedition.Assassin's Creed: Rogue – Numbskull's personal files: "Otso Berg's Profile: Lindsifarne"
In the 9th century, the region of Rygjafylke was plagued by the conflict between two clans in particular: the Raven Clan led by King Styrbjorn Sigvaldisson, and the Wolf Clan led by Kjotve the Cruel. In 855, Kjotve led his warriors on a raid on the village of Heillboer, massacring the population, including Varin and Rosta, the parents of Eivor Varinsdottir, who were allies of the Raven Clan.Assassin's Creed: Valhalla – Prologue Eivor was subsequently adopted by Styrbjorn and raised alongside his son, Sigurd, who in 870 embarked on a two-year voyage away from Norway.Assassin's Creed: Valhalla – The Prodigal Prince
That same year, Eivor thwarted a Wolf Clan attack on a village, hoping to secure an alliance between the settlement and the Raven Clan, and in the process captured Gull, a slave of Kjotve, who was the reincarnation of the Isu Iðunn.Assassin's Creed: Valhalla – Song of Glory – Issue #1 Gull led Eivor to the Temple of Heimdall in the Feiknstafir mountains, which contained an Apple of Eden.Assassin's Creed: Valhalla – Song of Glory – Issue #2 However, the temple collapsed during Eivor's battle against Wolf Clan members also coveting the Apple, forcing Eivor to abandon it while Gull was left to her fate.Assassin's Creed: Valhalla – Song of Glory – Issue #3
In 872, Eivor led a party of Vikings to Rygjafylke's southern mountains in pursuit of Kjotve, but despite managing to kill his youngest son Hrolfr,Assassin's Creed: Rebellion – The Ravens' Wound – The Horn of the Valkyrie the jarl escaped with a set of scrolls.Assassin's Creed: Rebellion – The Ravens' Wound – The Hidden Annals Eivor continued to pursue Kjotve for the rest of the year, getting herself captured at one point before escaping and rescuing her ship's crew.Assassin's Creed: Valhalla – Honor Bound
It was during this time that Sigurd returned home to Fornburg from his expedition, accompanied by the Hidden Ones Basim Ibn Ishaq and Hytham, whom he befriended during his journey. As the Hidden Ones sought to kill Kjotve, who was secretly a member of the Order of the Ancients, they helped the Raven Clan assault Kjotve's fortress, during which Eivor slew the jarl in a holmgang.Assassin's Creed: Valhalla – A Cruel Destiny
Kjotve's death allowed King Harald of Alrekstad to unite Norway's petty kingdoms under his rule, ending the constant wars between clans and becoming the first King of Norway. As Styrbjorn was among the jarls that swore fealty to the new king, Eivor, Sigurd and other members of their clan elected to leave the country to escape Harald's rule, settling in England.Assassin's Creed: Valhalla – Birthrights Other Norsemen that left their homeland during this time included the Sons of Ragnar, led by Halfdan, Ubba and Ivarr, all three of whom were children of the legendary Viking raider Ragnar Lothbrok;Assassin's Creed: Valhalla – Database: Ivarr and UbbaAssassin's Creed: Valhalla – Database: Halfdan and Geirmund Hel-hide.Assassin's Creed: Valhalla – Geirmund's Saga All of them went on to join the Great Heathen Army, a coallition of Vikings led by Guthrum that aimed to invade England.Assassin's Creed: Valhalla – Database: Guthrum
In 877, Eivor and Sigurd briefly returned to Norway to access the Yggdrasil Chamber, an Isu vault which Sigurd's visions were guiding him to.Assassin's Creed: Valhalla – Where Legends Are Born The siblings found the vault in the mountains of Hordafylke and connected themselves to Yggdrasil, experiencing a simulation of Valhalla, until they both decided to return to the real world. Upon doing so, they were attacked by Basim, who had followed the pair. As the reborn form of Loki, Basim sought revenge on Eivor and Sigurd, who were the reincarnations of Odin and Týr, respectively, but was ultimately defeated and trapped in the Grey.Assassin's Creed: Valhalla – A Brother's Keeper
Around 889, Eivor visited King Harald and Sigurd, who had since settled in Norway, at the longhouse in Alrekstad to say her goodbyes before she sailed to Vinland. Harald invited Eivor to lead an expedition to Iceland to send supplies to his friend Ingólfr Arnarson, but the shieldmaiden politely declined the offer.Assassin's Creed: Valhalla – The Last Chapter – Fare Thee Well, King Fair-Hair
===Modern times===
On 27 February 1943, during World War II, the Assassin Eddie Gorm infiltrated Vemork, the hydroelectric power plant that housed the Die Glocke, a time-travelling device, spearheaded by Gero Kramer, a German Templar. Kramer, having been subjected to the Nazis' übermensch project, was able to easily overpower Gorm and placed him within Die Glocke as a test subject.Assassin's Creed: Conspiracies – Volume 1: Die Glocke
Kramer ordered Nikola Tesla to activate the device, though the scientist had secretly sabotaged it. When the Allies simultaneously infiltrated the facility and destroyed the heavy water storages, Die Glocke was rendered inert and the Nazis were forced to abandon their plans. In April 1944, after occupying Denmark, Germany invaded Norway and set fire to a village.Assassin's Creed II – Glyph #17: "The Bunker"
By May 2014, the Assassin Mentor William Miles set up his personal bunker in a hidden cove near the city of .Assassin's Creed: Initiates – Surveillance: "Here We Are" After he cut contact with the Brotherhood due to mourning the death of his son Desmond, the crew of the Altaïr II tracked William down in an attempt to convince him to return to the Assassins.Assassin's Creed: Initiates – Surveillance: "Venting Anger"
In August 2020, the Assassin Layla Hassan traveled to the Yggdrasil Chamber, hoping to use the Isu supercomputer to reverse the strengthening of the Earth's magnetic field, caused by Desmond's activation of the global aurora borealis device in 2012. After entering the Grey, she met the trapped consciousness of Basim Ibn Ishaq, who helped her achieve her goal but tricked her into releasing him. Layla subsequently elected to remain inside the Grey with "the Reader" and help him study countless calculations, while Basim used the Staff of Hermes Trismegistus dropped by Layla to rejuvenate his physical body and be reborn in the modern world.Assassin's Creed: Valhalla – Modern day
==Etymology==
The name "Norway" comes from the word Norþweg meaning "the way to the north".Echoes of History: Vikings – Episode 2: Dragon of the Seas
==Gallery==
AC2 - Operation Weserubung.jpg|Germans burning a Norwegian village, 1944
ACi-HereWeAre.jpg|The Altaïr II docked at William's secret bunker
==Appearances==
*Assassin's Creed II 
*Assassin's Creed: Initiates 
*Assassin's Creed: Conspiracies 
*Assassin's Creed Valhalla: Song of Glory
*Assassin's Creed: Valhalla
**The Way of the Berserker 
**Wrath of the Druids 
**The Last Chapter
*Assassin's Creed: Rebellion – The Ravens' Wound
*Discovery Tour: Viking Age
*The World of Assassin's Creed Valhalla: Journey to the North – Logs and Files of a Hidden One
==References==
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Category:Countries in Europe