Magnus II of Norway
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Magnus Haraldsson was King of Norway from 1066 to 1069, jointly with his brother Olaf Kyrre from 1067. He was not included in official Norwegian regnal lists until modern times, but has since been cou
Norwegian ships in the Battle of Niså, imaged by Wilhelm Wetlesen, 1899 edition of Heimskringla
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
Magnus II of Norway
…to claim what he considered his part of the kingdom (after his father) in 1093 when his uncle Olaf Kyrre died, and shared the kingdom with his cousin Magnus Barefoot (son of Olaf Kyrre). Similar to the reign of his father, Haakon's reign also ended abruptly after a short time as he died young in 1095. Sturluson…
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