Magnus Barefoot
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Magnus III Olafsson, better known as Magnus Barefoot, was the King of Norway from 1093 until his death in 1103. His reign was marked by aggressive military campaigns and conquest, particularly in the
Silver penning struck sometime during the reign of Magnus
Page of 13th-century copy of the Norwegian chronicle Ágrip, a source for Magnus Barefoot's life
The hanging of Egil Aslaksson, as imagined by Wilhelm Wetlesen (1899)
Magnus Barefoot's army in Ireland, as imagined in Gustav Storm's 1899 edition of Heimskringla
Eystein Magnusson
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Eystein Magnusson, also called Eystein I, was King of Norway from 1103 to 1123 together with his half-brothers Sigurd the Crusader and Olaf Magnusson, although since Olaf died before adulthood, only E
Magnus Barefoot
…produce any children. His three sons (who succeeded him as king) were born to different women, and he had two known daughters by unidentified women: Eystein: Born 1089 to a mother "of low birth". Sigurd: Born 1090; his mother's name was Tora…
Early 12th-century marble bust of Eystein