or Norberg, George, the historian of Charles XII. of Sweden, was born at Stockholm in 1677. Having entered into holy orders, after the usual course of study at Upsal, he was appointed almoner to the army of Charles XII. in 1703, and was promoted to the office of chaplain to the king in 1707. He continued to hold this latter post till he was carried away from the field of Pultawa in 1709 to a captivity of six years in Russia. All this while it had been his custom to keep a record of the principal incidents that came under his observation. Accordingly, several years after he had been settled down in a pastoral charge in his native city, he was employed by Queen Ulrica Eleonora to write the history of her deceased brother, Charles XII. The work, after undergoing royal inspection and revision, was published in 2 vols. fol., Stockholm, 1740, and reappeared in a French translation in 3 vols. 4to, the Hague, 1742. Two years after this latter date the author died at Stockholm.