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A mythical viking warrior, potentially based on a historical person, Eric is described in the sagas and other earl medieval sources as one of the eldest sons of Ragnar Loðbrók.
Eric and his brother, Agnar, are accomplished warriors famous in their own rite and attack King Eystein of Uppsala that their father has installed in Sweden to rule that land in Ragnar's name. The Swedish chieftains unite against the brothers, remaining loyal to Ragnar, and the brothers are overcome. Agnar is killed out right while Eric is captured and chooses to die rather than accept defeat.
Their defeat and death triggers a revenge attack on King Eystein by their step-mother Aslaug and her son's Ivar, Sigurd, Bjorn and Hvitserk who slay the king for killing their elder brothers.
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“Don’t care, cur, to hear you, killer if you offer; (Eystein, they say, slew Agnar) I don’t want your daughter. To mourn me I’ve no mother; make haste, hey!, impale me. I’ll die over host hoisted, highest o’er the slaughter.”
And before he was lifted up on the spears, he saw a man riding hard. Then he said:
“Send word to my slender sweet stepmother, greet her: (my forays east are ended) say all my rings are hers. Great will grow their anger when they get to know it, when she brings her bounteous boys news of my demise.”
http://www.germanicmythology.com/FORNALDARSAGAS/ThattrRagnarsSonar....
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800 |
800
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Danmark (Denmark)
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830 |
830
Age 30
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Uppsala Sigtuna, Sverige (Sweden)
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1938 |
December 10, 1938
Age 30
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1939 |
July 12, 1939
Age 30
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1953 |
March 30, 1953
Age 30
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