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Historical person
1244–1287
Ingeborg of Denmark, Queen of Norway was a Danish princess who became queen of Norway through marriage to Magnus VI. As the mother of Eric II and Haakon V, she linked the Danish and Norwegian royal houses during a period of legal and administrative development.
Ingeborg of Denmark, Queen of Norway also held the offices or ranks of queen consort. Ingeborg of Denmark, Queen of Norway belonged to the House of Estridsen and operated within Norway; Kingdom of Denmark. Ingeborg of Denmark, Queen of Norway was born in Denmark and died in Bergen.
Sigrid Undset’s The Axe sets Olav Audunsson and Ingunn’s troubled betrothal within the Norwegian aristocratic world of Ingeborg’s queenship. The royal household and the authority of the crown form part of the political order through which disputes over marriage, outlawry and noble service are negotiated, placing the fictional couple’s private catastrophe inside the networks of church and monarchy that governed late thirteenth-century Norway.
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The Master of Hestviken follows Olav Audunsson from youth to old age in Norway during the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries. Betrothed to Ingunn Steinfinnsdatter as a child, Olav spends years fighting her relatives for recognition of their bond. Violence, outlawry and service to the rebel noble…
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