Notes |
- BIOGRAPHY
Through 1448-50, there is a civil war in Norway. Charles, King of Sweden, and Kristiern I, King of Denmark, rival upon the rulership of the country.
In 1450, Hartvik Krummedike, a Dane, commandant of the Akershus fortress of Oslo, murders the Norwegian riddar Eirik Saemundsonn, Governor of Southern Norway, Castellan of Tonsberg (Eirik served the Swedish king).
In those months, the tide in the civil war turns: the Swedish party loses its hold quite rapidly in places which it held at starting stages and the Danish party (augmented by troops sent from Denmark) takes hold of almost the entire country.
[Author: Sjöström]
|