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| | GERMANIA: Visigoths, Ostrogoths, Vandals, Vikings, Orkney, etc. |
 | | The heiress of the dynasty, Matasuntha, actually then married into the house of Justinian. |
 | | After they are all out of the way, we get rival lines, the "Sverkerska" and "Erikska" dynasties, between whom the Throne swaps back and forth, often violently, for a century. |
 | | The execution of a number of heirs prepared the way for both male lines to die out, and the Throne passes to the sons of Birger Jarl, beginning the "Folkung" dynasty. |
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