A little late

They say that the wheels of justice turn slowly, but apparently not slowly enough for this guy:

An Oslo court has rejected an inheritance claim from a man insisting he descends from Norwegian king Haakon V Magnusson, who died in 1319, since the statute of limitation for such a claim is far past.

Oh, so they got him on a technicality. That deadline must have just passed by, huh?

"In accordance with the inheritance law ... the right to claim inheritance expires if the heir does not demand his ... right within 10 years after the testator dies," the Oslo District Court wrote in its decision, seen by AFP on Tuesday.

Well, he was only off by 679 years or so.

If he was planning to use the inheritance to build a time machine to travel back to 1329 in order to get in under the statute of limitations, I guess he's shit out of luck.*



*And yes, I'm well aware of the fact that this joke makes absolutely no logical sense whatsoever. I just couldn't think of anything else.