Dreamy pictures Reinhold.
Obviously German and Norwegian have a lot in common. In old Norse Mikla/mykla (from mikil, now often used as a boy's name: Mikkel) means big or large. Gard means town (nowadays "gård" and means farm or small village). A lot of places have been named Miklagard, the most prominent of them being Istanbul, then Bysantz, later Constantinopel. Norwegian vikings actually formed an elite guard in the city around the year 1000, most prominently Harald Hardråde who later went on to lose the battle of Stamford Bridge to Harold the I, who then lost to William the Conqueror.