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Historical person
1244–1287
Ingeborg of Denmark, Queen of Norway was a Danish princess who became queen of Norway through marriage to Magnus VI. As the mother of Eric II and Haakon V, she linked the Danish and Norwegian royal houses during a period of legal and administrative development.
Sigrid Undset’s The Axe places Ingeborg of Denmark, Queen of Norway within a narrative shaped by family, marriage and personal loyalty, crime, espionage and covert power, and religion, belief and institutional authority.
Series
The Master of Hestviken follows Olav Audunsson from youth to old age in Norway during the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries. Betrothed to Ingunn Steinfinnsdatter as a child, Olav spends years fighting her relatives for recognition of their bond. Violence, outlawry and service to the rebel noble…
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