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Historical person
1282–1318
Eric Magnusson was a Swedish duke and member of the royal Folkung dynasty. Eric Magnusson served as duke. Eric Magnusson belonged to House of Bjelbo. Eric Magnusson is generally dated to 1282–1318.
He became a central participant in civil conflict with his brother King Birger, gained extensive power and later died in captivity after the Nyköping Banquet. Eric Magnusson died in Nyköping Castle.
In Sigrid Undset’s In the Wilderness, The private crisis is interrupted by war in 1308, when Duke Eric Magnusson invades the lands of his father-in-law, King Haakon V, and besieges Akershus.
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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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