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Eric the Victorious, also known as Erik Segersäll, was a Swedish monarch of the House of Munsö. Born in 945, he was the son of Björn Eriksson and the father of Olof Skötkonung. His siblings included Olof Björnsson. During his life, he held the position of monarch of Denmark and participated in the Battle of Fýrisvellir. He spoke Swedish and is present in the work *Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks*.
Eric was married to Sigrid the Haughty, Gunhild of Wenden, Aud Haakonsdottir of Lade, and Świętosława. He died of natural causes in 995 at Gamla Uppsala, where he was also buried. His biography is described in sources such as the *Dictionary of Swedish National Biography* and the *Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary*.
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Group
- Origin
- Canada
- Active from
- 2007-04-13
Discography
- Paros2012
- Crumbling Hearts2012
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Gene set enrichment analysis: A knowledge-based approach for interpreting genome-wide expression profiles
· 2005 · cited 48,863x
- UCSF Chimera—A visualization system for exploratory research and analysis
· 2004 · cited 44,354x
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,569x
- The Genome Analysis Toolkit: A MapReduce framework for analyzing next-generation DNA sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 26,092x
- Array programming with NumPy
· 2020 · cited 23,501x
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Key facts
- Reign
- c. 970 – c. 995
- Successor
- Olof Skötkonung
- Born
- c. 945
- Died
- c. 995
- Burial
- Old Uppsala
- Consorts
- Sigrid the Haughty (?) Świętosława (?), Gunhild of Wenden (?) Aud Haakonsdottir of Lade (?)
- Issue
- Olof Skötkonung and daughter of unknown name
- House
- Munsö
- Father
- Björn Eriksson (?) Emund Eriksson (?)
- Religion
- Pagan , possibly briefly Christian
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Encyclopedic overview
Eric the Victorious (Old Norse: Eiríkr inn sigrsæli, Modern Swedish: Erik Segersäll; c. 945 – c. 995) was a Swedish monarch as of around 970. Although there were earlier Swedish kings, he is the first Swedish king in a consecutive regnal succession, who is attested in sources independent of each other, and consequently Sweden's list of rulers usually begins with him. His son Olof Skötkonung, however, is considered the first ruler documented to definitely have been accepted both by the original Swedes around Lake Mälaren and by the Geats around Lake Vättern. Adam of Bremen reports a king named Emund Eriksson before Eric, but it is not known whether he was Eric's father. The Norse sagas' accounts of a Björn Eriksson are considered unreliable.
Eric's kingdom
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Eric the Victorious” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.