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Historical person
1268–1299
Eric II of Norway was a medieval king of Norway known as Eric Magnusson. His reign involved disputes with the church, conflict over Scottish and Norwegian interests, and the management of a kingdom increasingly shaped by aristocratic councils.
Sigrid Undset’s The Axe places Eric II of Norway within a narrative shaped by family, marriage and personal loyalty, crime, espionage and covert power, and religion, belief and institutional authority.
Series
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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