Answer: Unfortunately it was and is nothing or nobody. Anyway: Peter Wessel Tordenskiold was the ???? and 1879 was the year. I double checked in a real printed Norwegian lexicon today.
Question: Am i Viking enough to do that?
A: No... but who cares.
Q: I am honest? Is anybody honest? Does true honesty exist?
A: Shit, i was wrong. Stop right there now. Easy does it. Hands up! Gun down!