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Eric of Good Harvests or Eirik Arsale (Swedish: Erik Årsäll, Old Norse: Eiríkr hinn ársæli) was a semi-historical king of Sweden during the last decades of the 11th century and the son of the pagan Swedish king Blot-Sweyn[1]. Like his father before him, Eric administered the blóts at the temple at Uppsala[1]. However, Eric does not appear in any Swedish or Danish primary sources[2]. Old Norse or Danish tongue is the Germanic language once spoken by the inhabitants of the Nordic countries (for instance during the Viking Age). ...
As a means of recording the passage of time, the 11th century was that century which lasted from 1001 to 1100. ...
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The Blót was the pagan Germanic sacrifice to Norse gods and Elves. ...
The Temple at Uppsala was a temple in Gamla Uppsala (Old Uppsala), near modern Uppsala, Sweden, that was created to worship the Norse gods of ancient times. ...
The 13th century historian Snorri Sturlusson wrote in the Heimskringla that Blót-Sweyn and Eric had renounced Christianity and still ruled a largely pagan Sweden: (12th century - 13th century - 14th century - other centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 13th century was that century which lasted from 1201 to 1300. ...
Snorri Sturlason (1178 – September 23, 1241) was an Icelandic historian, poet and politician. ...
Heimskringla is the Old Norse name of a collection of sagas recorded in Iceland around 1225 by the poet and historian Snorri Sturluson (1179-1242). ...
| “ | At that time there were many people all around in the Swedish dominions who were heathens, and many were bad Christians; for there were some of the kings who renounced Christianity, and continued heathen sacrifices, as Blotsvein, and afterwards Eirik Arsale, had done.[3] | ” | Eric was the contemporary of Inge the Elder[1], and this suggests that Eric was the last high priest (goði) of the Temple at Uppsala, and that he was killed or deposed by Inge the Elder. ...
The term gothi (goði), in Norse mythology, refers to the person who administered the Blóts. ...
Eric is mentioned by a plausible source as the father of Sverker the Elder[1][2], which suggests that his true name was either Kol[1][2][4] or Cornube[5]. Eric Årsäll would then be a description of him as a "king during whose reign there were good harvests"[6]. Sverker I Kolson or Sverker the Elder (died c. ...
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This is a list of Swedish monarchs, that is, the Kings and ruling Queens of Sweden with Regents and Viceroys of the Kalmar Union up until the present time. ...
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Notes
- ^ a b c d e Erik, an article in Nordisk familjebok
- ^ a b c Svenska kyrkans historia (1838)
- ^ Saga of Sigurd the Crusader and His Brothers Eystein and Olaf (c. 1225).
- ^ The name of Sverker the Elder's father according to Skáldatal (c. 1300).
- ^ The name of Sverker the Elder's father according to the Westrogothic law (c. 1250).
- ^ Steinsland, Gro, Den hellige kongen, Oslo 2000. side 54 ISBN 82-530-2227-1
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