2022
DOI: 10.7146/rt.v74i.132107
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Margrete of Nordnes in Cult, Chronicle, and Ballad

Abstract: In 1290, Margrete, the 7-year-old daughter of King Eiríkr II Magnússon of Norway and Margaret, the daughter of King Alexander III of Scotland, begins a journey from Norway to Scotland. Unfortunately, Margrete, the heir presumptive to the throne of Scotland, dies en route, sparking a series of international and dynastic calamities. When, a decade later, a woman arrives in Bergen claiming to be the deceased princess, she is condemned to judicial immolation and burned at Nordnes. Surviving evidence strongly sugge… Show more

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“…This is not a reference to burial practices, however, but to her manner of death: Brend kona ór Þýðersku á Norðnesi, ok hálshǫggvin bóandi hennar ('A woman from Germany [was] burnt on Nordnes, and her husband was decapitated') (Islandske Annaler indtil 1578: 52). The woman in question was the so-called False Margrete, executed on Nordnes in Bergen (Mitchell 2022).…”
Section: Content-based Criterion 1: Burnt = Buriedmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This is not a reference to burial practices, however, but to her manner of death: Brend kona ór Þýðersku á Norðnesi, ok hálshǫggvin bóandi hennar ('A woman from Germany [was] burnt on Nordnes, and her husband was decapitated') (Islandske Annaler indtil 1578: 52). The woman in question was the so-called False Margrete, executed on Nordnes in Bergen (Mitchell 2022).…”
Section: Content-based Criterion 1: Burnt = Buriedmentioning
confidence: 99%