Reportedly, Gerhardsen favored Sverre Støstad, but he rejected the offer.

Official representatives of the Norwegian civil authorities followed soon after these military forces, with Crown Prince Olav arriving in Oslo on a British cruiser on May 14, with a 21-man delegation of Norwegian government officials headed up by Sverre Støstad and Paul Hartmann, with the remainder of the Norwegian government and the London-based administration following on the troopship Andes.

The newly-established party elected Sverre Støstad as chairman, Halvard Olsen as deputy chairman and Peder Furubotn as general secretary.

* Sverre Støstad ( 1923 – 1925 )

Designed by Sverre Fehn, 1962 ( small annex built by Fredrik Fogh, 1987 ).

* 1911 – Roald Amundsen's team, comprising himself, Olav Bjaaland, Helmer Hanssen, Sverre Hassel, and Oscar Wisting, becomes the first to reach the South Pole.

A second attempt with a team, consisting of Olav Bjaaland, Helmer Hanssen, Sverre Hassel, Oscar Wisting, and Amundsen himself, departed on 19 October 1911.

However, the team had a new manager every year, with Sverre Andersen, Stuart Williams and Olav Nilsen leading them to the title in the subsequent years, and Tony Knapp managing the 1979 team.

On 14 December 1911 along with Amundsen, Helmer Hanssen, Olav Bjaaland and Sverre Hassel, Wisting planted the Norwegian flag on the Geographic South Pole, the first explorers to have reached that point.

He was one of the first five people to reach the South Pole on 14 December 1911, along with Roald Amundsen, Olav Bjaaland, Oscar Wisting, and Sverre Hassel.

He arrived there on December 14, 1911, along with four other members of his expedition: Helmer Hanssen, Olav Bjaaland, Oscar Wisting, and Sverre Hassel.

The first executions took place on 7 March 1942, when Olav Sverre Benjaminsen, Abel Lazar Bernstein, David Isaksen, Wulf Isaksen, and David Wolfsohn were shot.

The battle of Kalvskinnet took place in Trondheim in 1179: King Sverre Sigurdsson and his Birkebeiner warriors were victorious against Erling Skakke ( a rival to the throne ).

Haakon, his father Magnus and his brother Eric were all members of the Swedish-Ostrogothian House of Bjelbo which had succeeded the House of Eric in Sweden and the House of Sverre in Norway.

In 1202, when King Sverre died, he had managed to acquire most of Norway, but in Østerdalen, the Baglers were still very powerful.

During the early years as leader of the Birkebeiners, Sverre and his men were almost constantly on the move.

The Trønders accepted Sverre as their king ; the two sides were now much more equal in power.

The situation now escalated into an open breach as Sverre began building up a list of privileges that were contrary to the church law made by St. Olaf, the traditional founder of the Norwegian Church.

Sverre happened to be in Viken, and the two forces soon encountered each other, although no major battles were fought.

The Trønders promised to provide Sverre with a new fleet, in all 8 large ships were constructed and several transport ships were converted.

The birkebeiner were thus left without any direct successors of Sverre to choose as their king ( the existence of another grandson of Sverre, Haakon Haakonsson, was as yet unknown to them ).

Sverre ’ s old adversaries, the bagler, were exploiting the situation to launch a new invasion of Viken under their king, Erling Steinvegg.

Sverre and Håkon were leaders of the Birkebeiner party.

Norwegians that were studying at technical schools in Germany, such as Sverre Bergh, linked up with Rosbaud and transported the intelligence to occupied Norway, and from there it was sent to neutral Sweden.

The main advocates for the camp were Minister of Justice Sverre Riisnæs, mayor Bjerck of Tønsberg, and head of the Hird in Vestfold, Eivind Wallestad.

He had two younger brothers, Sverre ( 1911 – 2001 ) and Corey ( 1916 – 2006 ), both of whom were also accomplished skiers.

Although they outnumbered Sverre's forces, they were defeated by Sverre ’ s superior tactics.

The two Norwegian corporals were Erling Djupdraet and Sverre Granlund.

Among them were the Birkebeiner chieftains Eystein Meyla and Sverre Sigurdsson who were kinsmen of Brigida Haraldsdotter.

King Sverre won, but around 2, 500 soldiers were killed in the bloody battle.

Her brothers Sverre Patursson and Jóannes Patursson were also well-known.

The first mention of the name is from the saga of Sverre of Norway, from about 1200.

According to Sverre Bagge, modern historians tend to follow Koht when it comes to see Skule's rebellion as a last desperate attempt to stop Haakon from enroaching his power, but lean closer to Munch's overall evaluation of the two men.

In 1206 a group of Birkebeiner party soldiers, who fought for Sverre Sigurdsson and his descendants in the Norwegian civil war, smuggled the illegitimate son of Norway's King Håkon Sverresson from Lillehammer to safety in Trondheim.

The name Braastad was introduced when Sverre Braastad ( 1879 – 1979 ) from Gjøvik, Norway, married the daughter of cognac producer Tiffon, Edith Rousseau, in 1913, and took over Tiffon, founded by Médéric Rousseau in 1875.

Sverre sought assistance from the Swedish earl Birger Brosa who sent him Swedish forces after some hesitation.

Sverre Sigurdsson () ( c. 1145 / 1151 – 9 March 1202 ) was King of Norway from 1177 to 1202.

Supposedly, King Sverre was short, so he usually directed his troops from horseback during battles.

According to the saga, Sverre was born in 1151 to Gunnhild and her husband Unås, a comb maker from the Faroes.

Support from Earl Birger Brosa of Sweden is more a sign of pragmatic politics on the part of the Swedes, as their ally party in Norway needed a new leader and had chosen Sverre.

With Magnus controlling western Norway from his seat at Bergen, it became problematic for Sverre to keep his men supplied.

In 1200 Innocent found it necessary to warn the Archbishop of Canterbury not to accept further gifts from Sverre.

In spring 1197, Sverre called out the leidang from the northern and western parts of the country, and in May he was able to sail south to Viken with more than 7000 men, a considerable force.

With Sverre gone, the Baglers could return in force from Denmark and soon they had re-established their hold on Eastern Norway.

In Spring 1201 Sverre sailed out from Bergen with a large leidang force in what would be his last campaign season.

* Of Sverre, King of Norway — from William of Newburgh's History of English Affairs, Book three, chapter six

With his first wife, the Danish noble Benedicta Ebbesdatter ( Galen, apparently not Hvide as otherwise alleged, b. c. 1165 / 70, d. 1200 ), whom he married before 1190 when yet living in Denmark, Sverker had at least one well-attested daughter, Helena Sverkersdotter, as well as possibly further children, such as Karl ( who died in adolescence at the latest, if ever lived ; but his existence is from the record that he is alleged to have married a daughter of king Sverre of Norway ), and possibly even two other daughters ( if they existed, their names are given by reconstructive history research as Margaret and Kristina – however they may just have been Sverker's first wife's kinswomen ).

His father Sverre Lie, was a civil Norwegian engineer and his mother Helen Augusta Steele, was an American from Hartford, Connecticut.

Norway was released from the interdict it had been placed under during the reign of Sverre.

It is then raised once more inside the ancient boundaries of Norway, the throne which was used by Håkon Adelstensfostre and Sverre, from where they ruled old Norway with wisdom.

In 1177, Sverre Sigurdsson, who was king of Norway from 1184-1202, led the rebel Birkebeiners to Trøndelag where in June, Sverre was hailed as king at Øretinget, the Thing ( assembly ) for Trøndelag.

Sverre held Trøndelag from Nidaros, which was then protected by a wooden palisades extending from the river to the fjord across the neck of the peninsula connecting the town to the mainland.