Birkebeiner
The Birkebein Party or Birkebeinar was a contemporary pejorative name for a rebellious party in Norway, formed in 1174 by Eystein Meyla. The name has its origins in propaganda from the opposing party that the rebels were so poor that they made their shoes of birch bark.
External links
- The Birkebeiner cross-country skirace
- The Birkebeiner mountainbike race
- The Birkebeiner run
- American Birkebeiner website
- Canadian Birkebeiner website
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