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Historical person
1292–1355
Erling Vidkunsson was a powerful Norwegian nobleman and regent in the fourteenth century. He served as guardian and leading councillor during the minority of Magnus Eriksson and represented the high aristocracy in a period of union between Norway and Sweden.
In Sigrid Undset’s Kristin Lavransdatter, II: The Wife, Erling Vidkunsson, Ingeborg of Norway and Knud Porse stand behind the regency politics of the period, while Erlend joins a conspiracy associated with the king’s cousins Jon and Sigurd Havtoresson.
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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