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Historical person
1316–1374
Magnus IV of Sweden was a king of Sweden and Norway who inherited both crowns as a child. His long reign involved regency government, legal reform, territorial disputes, noble opposition and eventual deposition in Sweden.
Sigrid Undset’s Kristin Lavransdatter, II: The Wife is set after marrying Erlend, Kristin becomes mistress of Husaby and assumes responsibility for a large estate, Erlend’s illegitimate children and the sons born during their turbulent marriage.
Series
The Kristin Lavransdatter trilogy follows a landowner’s daughter from childhood in Gudbrandsdalen through marriage, motherhood, bereavement and old age in fourteenth-century Norway. Kristin’s love for the charismatic Erlend Nikulausson overturns the marriage arranged by her father and binds her to a man whose political recklessness repeatedly threatens their…
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