The Story of the Black Death in Norway
February 10, 2021 by Andrew McKayHome » History Blog » The Story of the Black Death in Norway
The story of how Europe’s deadliest plague pandemic influenced Norway for centuries.
2020 and perhaps 2021 will forever be known as the years of the coronavirus. But it won’t be the last and certainly wasn’t the first health crisis to hit humanity.
There was the HIV/AIDS crisis of the 1980s. Despite medical advances and improved knowledge, there are an estimated 38 million people around the world living with the infection today.
Before that, the so-called Spanish flu infected an estimated one-third of the world’s population, killing millions, from 1918 to 1920. But humanity’s greatest struggle began its life many hundreds of years earlier.