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  • ...thern Scotland, Iceland, the Faroes and Western Norway. The celebration of Magnus’s feast days (the natalitio and the translatio) seems to have been offici The life and martyrdom of St. Magnus is well served in the Old Norse corpus in Orkneyinga saga and his two separ
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  • ...robably written to be performed at the wedding of the Norwegian king Eirik Magnusson and the Scottish princess Margareta in Bergen in 1281. Text and melody i ...ulatorium was probably written for the wedding of the Norwegian king Eirik Magnusson and Margareta, daughter of the Scottish king Alexander III. The wedding
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  • ...r is the author of two rhymed offices, Triumphantis milicie in honour of [[Sanctus Botvidus]], and Birgitte matris inclite in honour of [[Sancta Birgitta]], t ...:2, 101); (2) ''Historia metropolitanae ecclesiae Upsalensis'' by Johannes Magnus (ed. SRS III:2, 55-57); (3) Medieval charters, letters and other documents
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  • ...onnection with the burial of Sigurd Jorsalfar in 1130 (Saga of the sons of Magnus, ch. 33). The church burned a few years later (1137), but the shrine of St. ''Sanctus Halvardus ex nobilioribus ortus natalibus.../... corpus eius longe post cum
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  • ...h in battle against a small force. He was succeded by his illegitimate son Magnus. Upon the English King Eadmund’s death he was succeded by his son Adeldra ...monastery in honour of Our Lady in Ringsted and one in Slagelse. King Sven Magnus of Denmark died in Jutland (Jylland) in 1074, in the thirty-first year of h
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  • ...ermany made him a threat in the eyes of the reigning King Niels, whose son Magnus reacted by assassinating Knud at Haraldsted, Zealand, on 7 January 1131. In ...nus with a blow to the skull, and his body is run through by the spears of Magnus’s accomplices; thus by a glorious martyrdom the just man paid the due pri
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  • ...Danish domination, Theodoricus tells in chapters 21-28 about the reigns of Magnus Olafsson (“the Good”, 1035-1047) and his uncle Harald “Hardruler” ( ...stein Magnusson (1103-1123), and Sigurd “Crusader” (1103-1130). We hear of Magnus’s attempt to conquer Ireland (ch. 31) and of Sigurd’s pilgrimage to Jer
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  • ...g saintly qualities long before his death, whereas his murderer Magnus and Magnus’s father King Niels were painted in the darkest colours. ...Ely’s Vita sancti Canuti ducis, Duke Knud Lavard, was killed by his cousin Magnus, King Niels’s son, on 7 January 1131 in Haraldsted near Ringsted. A sprin
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  • ...fter 1233 (Visby). The cult of St. Henry was forcefully promoted by Bishop Magnus I (r. 1291–1308) who not only consecrated (according to a tradition doubt ...established in 1441. MALINIEMI (1942, 10–11) tentatively suggested Bishop Magnus Tawast (r. 1412–1450, d. 1452) as a possible candidate for authorship, th
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  • '''Sanctus Ericus rex Suecus''' St. Erik Jedvardsson (d. 1160), patron saint of Sweden ...agnus, son of the king of Denmark, claims his right to the Swedish throne. Magnus joins forces with a certain prince of the realm and other wicked accomplice
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  • '''Sanctus Brynoplhus''' The canonization process contains a summary vita in the form ...a report to the council of Konstanz by the three bishops, Jacobus of Oslo, Magnus of Åbo and Eskillus of Växjö, who had been commissioned to conduct the i
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  • ...pt to write an account of the history of Denmark, "The Deeds of King Svend Magnus and his Sons and the Passion of the Most Glorious Knud, King and Martyr" (' ...Knud the Martyr" composed between 1095 and 1100 by an unknown author (see Sanctus Kanutus rex). Ælnoth's most recent editor characterizes the style as artif
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  • ...a young Icelandic poet, who had avenged his father by killing one of King Magnus Bareleg´s courtiers. The bishop-elect Jón went first to Lund for consecra ...served as a literary model, particularly the Latin Legenda St. Thorlaci ([[Sanctus Thorlacus]] Thorhallson) which was written about the same time. As other ha
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