*swoon* (Picture: Instagram/Lasselom) You may have read about the UK’s own ‘sexiest police officer’ Jim Colwell, whose picture prompted hundreds of likes from women asking things like ‘What exactly do I need to do for him to handcuff me???!’

Well, now Norway has upped the ante with their own contender for hottest man in uniform.

Meet Lasse L. Matberg, a 30-year-old lieutenant in the Royal Norwegian Navy who has the 6’6 stature of a Viking god. (Or so others have said. Ahem.)

He looks like scientists took genes from Thor and Legolas and combined them together to create a superman – but don’t just take our word for it:


‘Hit the gym? You mean chopping wood? #Norwegian’



*dies*

He is not only built, but also sensitive as these pictures of him with a tiny puppy and cute little piglet demonstrate:

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Lasse, from Stavanger, summed up the feedback he got from users on Instagram as: ‘They want to marry me or ask me to make them pregnant.’

We checked out a few and in the first few minutes found:

‘Are you from this world??? You’re an Asgardian, aren’t you??’ [like Thor]

‘Hvis THOR skulle levd i vår tid ville det vært han her’ [not sure what this means but see above]

Take me to NORWAY I’m in-love

Hmm, we’ll just leave a few more pictures here.

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If you want to add your name to the list of people suddenly desperate to join the Norwegian Navy, get in the queue as he has quickly accumulated more than 100,000 followers on Instagram.

Possibly one more when we finish this article.