“Richard I of Normandy (also known as Richard the Fearless) and Richard II, also called Richard the Good.”
If I ever get to be a king, that’s what I’d like to be put after my name: the fearless and the good.
(Can’t think of any current rulers who’d fit those descriptions...)
There was a 12th-century Count of Flanders named Charles the Good. He was murdered.
Norwegian kings had a lot of “odd” monickers.
Of course you had tough guys like Erick “Trump” Bloodaxe.
But, we also had a fair shair of oddballs.
We had Halfdan the black. I suppose he must have been the viking Obama
Magnus Barefoot AND mAGNUS THE bLIND.
I’d like history to remember me as Wildbill the Randy.