The Kingdom of Norway, a country where most of its territory is within the Arctic Circle, was the birthplace of the world-famous Vikings, and even the famous Viking craze broke out two hundred years ago, which made the whole of northern and eastern Europe tremble at that time.

Since the Kingdom of Norway is the birthplace of Vikings, it is natural to think that the weather conditions in the Kingdom of Norway are very harsh, and it is very poor and embarrassing, so that the local residents have to go to sea to plunder.

But this is not the case, the Kingdom of Norway is located in the western part of Scandinavia, and its narrow territory is like a barb that cuts off the Mexican warm current, so that endless schools of fish automatically swim into the local fishermen's area, forming the North Sea Fishing Grounds, one of the four most famous fishing grounds in the world.

The North Sea fisheries and the Norwegian coast are blessed with abundant marine life, and the fatty and juicy fish here are valuable and valuable for both migratory fish such as salmon and deep-sea fish such as Atlantic cod.

What a miracle, God has given Norway all the warmth of Scandinavia, it is not as cold as people think, the climate is warm in winter and cool in summer, even in the Arctic Circle, the winter temperature is between minus 5 degrees and 0 degrees, and the summer temperature is maintained at about 20 degrees, which is very comfortable and pleasant, due to the influence of the Mexican warm current, there are countless excellent seaports in the coastal areas that do not freeze all year round.

It can be said that life here is warm and pleasant, compared to the Scandinavian countries, Sweden and Finland, which are monotonous and treacherous, or clammy and bitter cold.

The only drawback is that the Kingdom of Norway has only 3 percent of the arable land it owns, and the vast majority of this 3 percent of the arable land is cabbage, sauerkraut, carrots and other non-green vegetables.

The lack of daylight hours has also led to a serious problem, with so little production of food crops and almost zero sugar crops, that in the modern 21st century, the wealthy Kingdom of Norway still needs to import food from other countries to make up for the shortage.

Perhaps the lack of arable land and food was the most important reason for the birth of Vikings in the Middle Ages, after all, the warm climate and abundant fish could not be eaten, and when they sailed to the rich lands of France, England and Italy, the desire for fertile land where they could grow food led the Vikings to launch one adventure after another and conquer Europe.

Of course, the lack of food in the Kingdom of Norway was not a bad thing for William, after all, William had a lot of food, as the king who controlled the rich French Plain, the Rhine Plain and a large territory in southern England, the food produced in the manor alone was enough to supply the needs of the entire kingdom every year, and a large amount of surplus grain was exported to other countries, which allowed William to earn a lot of gold coins to support his guards and huge royal expenses.

When William conquers the Kingdom of Norway and controls the Norwegian food supply in the future, does he still need to worry about not being able to control the country?

But then again, since the Kingdom of Norway was one of the most bitter cold places in the Middle Ages at this time, when it lacked food, why did William attack Norway? The mere fact that Norway might threaten England's coastline is somewhat untenable, given that England has never been threatened by the Norman conquest from other countries, let alone weakened to the point that Norway became a henchman of the Danes.

In addition to the abundant fishing resources of the Kingdom of Norway, the North Sea Fishing Grounds, one of the four largest fishing grounds in the world, as well as the excellent marine resources and countless natural harbors, William also coveted its rich natural resources.

The Kingdom of Norway has 75 percent of its land area covered by green space, and satellite photography has shown that Norway has more than a billion trees, most of which are birches suitable for shipbuilding, followed by spruce and pine.

Even in later generations, the Kingdom of Norway had so many forest resources that in the middle of the 11th century, its forest resources were even more impressive, almost inexhaustible.

The abundance of forests was extremely important to William and his kingdom, especially for the burgeoning shipbuilding industry.

Even six or seven hundred years later, in the eighteenth century, European countries, especially the Kingdom of England, had to rely on trees from the American continent to build warships and ships, which shows how scarce trees were to serve as ship timber at that time. This was not a problem at all for the Kingdom of Norway, which had enough forestry resources to support the huge shipbuilding industry of England and France, and holding the Kingdom of Norway was equivalent to holding the lifeblood of the future age of sailing.

In addition to the abundant fishery resources and forest resources, William also set his sights on the rich oil and gas resources and mineral resources of the Kingdom of Norway.

The Kingdom of Norway is extremely rich in offshore oil and gas resources, since the Kingdom of Norway discovered oil resources in the coastal areas of the North Sea in the 70s of the 20th century, the exploitation of oil and gas has become the most important economic pillar of the country, but without these rich oil resources, the country should still be a barren land in future generations.

Although coastal oil extraction technology will not mature until the 20th century, William, who has a long-term vision, will not give up because of this, and it is a big deal to leave it to his children and grandchildren, who will realize how prescient William was when they exploit these oil and gas resources and thus obtain great wealth.

Although the oil and gas resources of the Kingdom of Norway are not used at all, this does not prevent Wilhelm from taking them into his possession in advance.

Of course, in addition to the abundant offshore oil and gas resources, the Kingdom of Norway also has extremely rich mineral resources, mainly iron ore, which is easy to mine open-pit mines such as Sidva Angol open-pit mine and Nala open-pit mine, each open-pit mine has an annual output of more than 10 million tons of iron ore, just enough to provide sufficient ore supply for the increasingly developed steel industry in the Norman Kingdom.

Norway is also extremely rich in non-ferrous metal minerals, especially copper resources, with several open-pit mines, including the Bijie Vowag open-pit mine, which produces 300,000 tons of copper ore per year, and the others are smaller underground mines.

In addition, the Longyearbyen Coal Mine in Norway, this open-pit coal mine is very accessible, it is close to the Green Bay, the transportation is very convenient, and the coal can be easily transported by ship, and millions of tons of coal are transported to Norway every year.