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691:, presumably while staying in Denmark; and if so he was the first Swedish king to do so. Due to that significant event, missionaries were allowed to sail over from Denmark to Sweden where they "worked valiantly in the name of the Lord". After some time, Eric is said to have forgotten the Christian faith and reverted to the religion of his ancestors. When Eric died, Sveyn Forkbeard returned from exile and regained Denmark. He also is alleged to have married Eric's widow (whoever she was), mother of Eric's successor King Olof. Thus an alliance between the Swedish and Danish royal houses was created.
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284:. Whether or not there were any Swedish monarchs named Eric before Eric the Victorious is disputed, with some historians claiming that there were several earlier Erics, and others questioning the reliability of the primary sources used and the existence of these earlier monarchs. The list of monarchs after him is also complicated and sketchy in some early periods, which makes the assignment of any numeral problematic (see
659:. A Saxon army confronted the invaders but was badly defeated. Several prominent Saxons were captured and brought to the ships, while the Vikings ravaged the province with no resistance. One of the prisoners, a Margrave Siegfried, managed to escape at night with the help of a fisherman. The infuriated Vikings then maimed their remaining prisoners and threw them ashore. However, Siegfried and Duke
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the
Russian king. The fylkeskonungs all paid tributes to the Uppsala king according to the Yngling Saga and are described as client kings of the kings of Uppsala. Sometimes it means petty king. After that marriage took place Åke got jealous and angry at the Russian king for taking his love. Erik married her off to the Russian king.
731:). Bolin also argues that Eric's invasion of the Holy Roman Empire (as described by Adam of Bremen), virtually requires Eric to have been the king of Denmark. According to a recent evaluation by Harrison, the conquest "is not unlikely, at least if we consider it a loose suzerainty over powerful Danish lords". The
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According to saga sources, Eric also had a beautiful daughter. A Swede named Åke desired her. Eric however forbade his marriage proposal, since he knew a king in Russia that he wanted to marry her off to. Åke also was an unworthy man for his daughter. The saga uses the word fylkeskonung to describe
231:; c. 945 – c. 995) was a Swedish monarch as of around 970. Although there were earlier Swedish kings, he is the first Swedish king in a consecutive regnal succession, who is attested in sources independent of each other, and consequently Sweden's list of rulers usually begins with him. His son
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also mentions that Erik ruled over
Denmark for seven years after an invasion. He does not question the validity of the Swedish conquest of Denmark and claims that the Swedish invasion of Denmark was retaliation for Harald Bluetooth's support of Styrbjörn the Strong. Saxo unlike Adam of Bremen
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Various sources and sagas (see above) list King Eric's wives as Sigrid, Świętosława, Gunhild and Aud, of which two or three may have been the same person but depicted differently and under different names. Such sources have also given Eric a total of four known children:
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said that Eric should do something against Åke and that his actions against Eric must be punished. Haakon offered Eric gifts if he took revenge and offered to help him take revenge. Leaving a rival alive could risk his life in a potential attack for the throne by Åke.
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describe the alleged battle. The first expressly mentions how an Eric has utterly defeated an enemy host at a fortification at Fýrisvellir, while the second specifies that the
Vikings were superior in numbers but nevertheless were handily captured when they attacked
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After that Eric started a purge where all jarls allied with Åke were mercilessly killed and their property was confiscated. He spared the child and raised it as his grandson and also spared his daughter and brought them home with him.
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whom he interviewed for his chronicle. Adam of Bremen also uses a similar epithet as the sagas "Victorius" for Erik the "Powerful" or Erik the "Great" the Latin word "potentissimus". Adam places Eric's reign after that of a certain
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Adam's account seems to date the death of Eric the
Victorious between 992, when the accession took place in Poland of his ally Boleslaw I (above), and 995, when his son Olof's coinage began in Sigtuna. According to
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soon raised a new army and raided the
Vikings encamped at Stade. Another Viking detachment was tricked deep into the desolate marsh of Glindesmoor by a captured Saxon knight and annihilated by pursuing Germans.
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to avoid retaliation by Eric. Eric did not want to risk a confrontation since that would lead to much bloodshed in a possible civil war. For some years nothing happened and Åke had a son Edmund, father of
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nobility, but archaeological findings suggest that the influence of that class diminished during the last part of the tenth century. Eric probably introduced a system of universal conscription known as
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characterized by the defeat and flight of the attackers. These stones have traditionally been associated with the battle, but they also present chronological problems and may be from the next century.
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Before that, Eric's brother Olaf died, and a new co-ruler was to be appointed, but the Swedes allegedly refused to accept Eric's rowdy nephew Styrbjörn as such. Eric granted Styrbjörn 60
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According to Adam, Eric's rule in
Denmark coincided with increased Viking activity in northern Germany. A fleet of Swedish and Danish ships sailed up the Elbe and landed at
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for the throne of
Denmark. Snorri Sturlasson also mentions that Eric manfully defended the realm from invaders and that he also expanded the Swedish realm manfully.
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Sturlasson (1991). Nordiska kungasagor. 1, Från Ynglingasagan till Olav Tryggvasons saga. Stockholm: Fabel. sid. 59-66. Libris 1266026. ISBN 91-7842-122-5
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identified as a possible description of an attack on Hedeby by king Sweyn against
Swedish defenders who had occupied the settlement after king Eric's conquest.
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published designs allegedly used by King Eric, but a minting of coins by Eric is unknown to modern scientists, and these attributions are considered inaccurate.
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595:(around 1075) provides by far the oldest narrative about King Eric, and it differs substantially from the sagas. As his source he refers to the current King
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Eric then started a plot for revenge. Eric armed his guards and killed Åke when he was leaving the party drunk together with his drunken bodyguards.
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and as having ruled together with his brother Olaf. One saga describes his marriage to the infamous Queen
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Liljegren, Bengt (2004) "Rulers of Sweden". Lund: Historiska Media. (translated by Adam
Williams) p.11
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independent sources (Saxo Grammaticus and Adam of Bremen, who got the information from the Danish king
624:(Bolesław). According to other interpretations, she was identical with a woman known in later sagas as
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Ros, Jonas (2002) "Sigtuna och folklanden; den tidiga Sigtunamyntningen och den politiska geografin",
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616:(992–1025). He gave Eric his sister or daughter in marriage". That princess has been identified as
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before Eric, but it is not known whether he was Eric's father. The Norse sagas' accounts of a
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considers it likely that the Swedish conquest of Denmark did occur, since it is supported by
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Saxo Grammaticus. The History of the Danes, Books I-IX. Översättning av Peter Fisher (2002).
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De danske runemindesmærker. by: Wimmer, Ludv. F. A., vol 1:2, p. 119 Publication date: 1893
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The extent of Eric's kingdom is unknown. In addition to the Swedish heartland around lake
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Slaget på Fyrisvallarna i ny tolkning (The Battle of Fýrisvellir in a New Interpretation)
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Sagan om Ingwar widtfarne och hans son Swen (in Swedish), 1762 , scanned pages, alt link
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in which he sailed away for a seafaring existence as a Viking. He became the ruler of
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troops seem to have turned back. Eric won the Battle of Fýrisvellir, according to
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and promising that, if victorious, he would give himself to Odin in ten years.
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Emund, allegedly ruled over part of the realm under his brother Olof
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Another example of King Eric in fantasy art, this published by
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Alternatively, it has been speculated that he belonged to a
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Lindkvist, Thomas (2003), "Kings and provinces in Sweden",
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Vol. II. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 202–27.
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Adam av Bremen (1984) pp. 87–8 (Book II, Chapters 31-32).
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359:he was also King of Denmark after defeating King
755:d. 1022, Eric's only historically attested child
648:whose king received the refugee with kindness.
620:, in some Nordic sources the daughter of a king
767:Daughter, married to an Åke and grandmother of
386:In all probability he also founded the town of
281:Historia de omnibus Gothorum Sueonumque regibus
274:, modern inventions by counting backwards from
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1410:Artikel i Svenskt biografiskt lexikon
1156:Svitiod: resor till Sveriges ursprung
1127:Slaget på Fyrisvallarna i ny tolkning
1058:Slaget på Fyrisvallarna i ny tolkning
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882:The Cambridge History of Scandinavia
343:it may have extended down along the
706:probably include King Eric's grave.
1362:Fritz, Birgitta, "Sigrid storråda"
774:Eric's nephew Styrbjörn and niece
671:and initially very hostile to the
536:'s army decisively in a battle in
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383:in the provinces around Mälaren.
1352:Adam av Bremen (1984), p. 268–9.
1201:The saga of Yngvar the Traveller
1428:. Stockholm: Norstedts, p. 121.
591:German ecclesiastic chronicler
929:Bolin, Sture, "Erik segersäll"
843:probably is King Eric's grave.
332:allegedly being the father of
300:His original territory was in
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1761:descendant of Inge the Elder
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1381:Adam av Bremen (1984) p. 88.
1372:Adam av Bremen (1984) p. 86.
532:mentions that Eric defeated
485:, after making sacrifice to
328:. A brother of Eric's named
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206:, possibly briefly Christian
160:and daughter of unknown name
2002:Bengt Jönsson (Oxenstierna)
482:Styrbjarnar þáttr Svíakappa
467:and an ally of Danish King
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2008:Nils Jönsson (Oxenstierna)
1426:Sveriges historia 600-1350
1275:Finskt museum, Volym 23–29
1125:Thunberg, Carl L. (2012).
1018:Cambridge Medieval History
987:Sveriges historia 600-1350
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444:he then took a new queen,
426:, daughter of a legendary
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2065:Kettil Karlsson (Vasa)
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1991:Christopher of Bavaria
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1995:House of Wittelsbach
1030:Jones, Gwyn (1973),
989:, pp. 21, 121,
583:In 1691 coin expert
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408:Gustaf Henrik Mellin
334:Styrbjörn the Strong
318:blessed with victory
184:Björn (III) Eriksson
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33:Eric the Victorious
18:Erik the Victorious
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1074:978-91-981859-7-3
1066:978-91-981859-5-9
1054:Thunberg, Carl L.
996:978-91-1-302377-9
713:Snorre Sturlasson
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1603:Anund Jacob
1510:Norse sagas
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2347:since 1818
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2259:Charles XI
2201:Charles IX
2151:Gustav (I)
1864:Eric "XII"
1849:Magnus III
1808:Knut Långe
1673:Blot-Sweyn
1593:Eric "VII"
1179:Fornvännen
1113:2007-08-18
851:References
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496:verses by
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376:earl-class
345:Baltic Sea
314:Victorious
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76:Successor
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349:Blekinge
276:Eric XIV
200:Religion
118:Consorts
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1722:·
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1664:Halsten
1649:Halsten
1639:Stenkil
1622:Stenkil
1476:c. 945?
975:pp. 8–9
904:Listing
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681:Zealand
669:heathen
642:England
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306:epithet
302:Uppland
272:Eric VI
249:Vättern
241:Mälaren
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268:Eric V
177:Father
106:Burial
101:c. 995
93:c. 945
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677:Funen
661:Benno
653:Stade
634:Slavs
549:jarls
416:sagas
245:Geats
204:Pagan
171:Munsö
166:House
153:Issue
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