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| | Northvegr - A History of the Vikings |
 | | Harald, a swarthy and kilted foreigner who could speak little or no Norse, captured Magnus and blinded him; then another pretender to the throne, Sigurd Slembe, who also said he was a son of Magnus Barefoot, arrived in Norway and murdered Harald. |
 | | All parties in the state, nobles, churchmen, and peasants, were against him; pretenders to the throne he had usurped threatened rebellion; yet Sverre triumphed over all opposition and remained king of Norway until his death in 1202. |
 | | He was followed on the throne by his son Eric (1280-1299) and afterwards by his second son Haakon V (1299-1319); Haakon married his only legitimate heir, a daughter, to the son of King Magnus Ladulås of Sweden, and the son of this union in due course inherited the thrones both of Sweden and Norway. |
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