Although they wear medieval clothes referring to their historical roots, they are the children of today and express interests and visions of youth as environmental awareness.

[1][2] Eight pairs of Norwegian children, each representing a region of the country, were selected from about 10,000 subscribers aged 10 to 11 years old to play the mascots.

[1] For the Paralympic Games, the committee subsequently requested visual artists Tor Lindrupsen and Janne Solem for the creation of a new mascot along the creative lines of Håkon and Kristin.

When Håkon Håkonson was a small child he had to escape Lillehammer through the mountains with his supporters due to threatening by the Baglers.

The Princess of the Birkebeiner, Kristin Sverrisdottir, married meanwhile the chief of the Baglers Filippus Simonsson in the sake of peace between the two groups.