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Historical person
born c. 14th century
Jon Havtoresson was a Norwegian nobleman of the fourteenth century and member of the powerful Sudreim lineage. Through descent and marriage connections he belonged to the aristocratic networks that shaped Norwegian politics during periods of royal minority and Scandinavian union.
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.
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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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