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Historical person
c. 13th century–1330
Knud Porse was a Danish nobleman who rose to power in Sweden and Norway through service and marriage. He became duke of Halland and married Ingeborg of Norway, placing him at the centre of Scandinavian regency and territorial politics.
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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