Norwegians...we rule...literally.
The Norwegian Ghost Edward de Vere, William Shakespeare, and the Greatest Cover-Up in Literary History Peter Thoegersen The question of Shakespeare’s authorship has been debated for over a century, and it has largely been debated badly — framed as a snobbish dispute between those who want Shakespeare to be an aristocrat and those who insist on the democratic romance of the Stratford glover’s son. Both camps miss the deeper argument. The case for Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, as the true author of the works attributed to William Shakespeare does not rest on snobbery. It rests on three interlocking claims, each independently compelling, and together very nearly conclusive. I. The Blood: From Vear, Vestfold to the Plays of England Begin where the story begins — not in Elizabethan London, not in Normandy, but in Norway. The de Vere family did not simply emerge from the Norman aristocracy. Their genealogical records trace their origins to Vear, Vestfold — the heartland o...