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Eric the Victorious (Old Norse: Eiríkr inn sigrsæli, Modern Swedish: Erik Segersäll; 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 ...
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Eric the Victorious ( Old Norse: Eiríkr inn sigrsæli;...
- Eric the Victorious - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
21. Okt. 2022 · From the Wikipedia page for Eric the Victorious: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_the_Victorious. Eric the Victorious (Old Norse: Eiríkr inn sigrsæli, Modern Swedish: Erik Segersäll), (945? – c. 995), was the first Swedish king (970–995) about whom anything definite is known.[1]
- Uppsala, Uppsala County
- circa 929
- Uppsala County
- Uppsala, Uppsala County, Sweden
Eric the Victorious praying to Odin before the legendary Battle of Fýrisvellir, as envisioned by 20th-century artist Jenny Nyström. Due to a lack of preserved sources, little concrete information is known of Swedish kings during the Viking Age. [1] .
However, Eric would disinherit his nephew Styrbjörn. Adam of Bremen , however, only gives Emund Eriksson as the predecessor of Eric the Victorious , around 970. His account is generally considered more reliable than the Icelandic sagas, and as such Björn Eriksson may be an entirely fictional figure.
- 882–932 (traditionally)
- Norse Paganism
Eric the Victorious 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 Olof Skötkonung, however, is considered the first ...
Sometimes Eric the Victorious is referred to as either King Eric V or VI, modern inventions based on counting backwards from Eric XIV (1560–68), who adopted his numeral according to a fictitious history of Sweden. Whether or not there were any Swedish monarchs named Eric before Eric the Victorious is disputed, with some historians claiming ...
