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Norwegian king. Parents: King Magnus Olafson III Barefoot (1073-1103) and an unknown woman. Married to Ingebjørg Guttormsdatter. Half-Brother of kings Sigurd Magnusson I Jorsalfare (ca. 1089-1130), Olav Magnusson (ca. 1100-1115) and Harald IV Gille (ca. 1102-1136) and allegedly Sigurd Slembe (died 1139); grandfather Olaf Gudbrandsson Ugjæva (ca. 1150-1173; see NBL1, Vol. 10).
Øystein Magnusson Norwegian king for a whole 20 years, crowned in 1103 with his brothers Sigurd (Jorsalfare) and Olav . While Sigurd added luster to the Norwegian name abroad through his warlike actions, Øystein, according sagas worked for cultural progress at home, built a lodge on Dovre and harbor at Agdenes , erected several churches and founded Munkeliv monastery in Bergen . He also took the initiative to make laws recorded and linked and strongly linked Jamtland to Norway. In relation to this long reign there is remarkably little we know about him. It is mainly connected with the fact that he made his mark through peaceful enterprises - such as bards poem and saga writers built on in their accounts. Yet was the "civil" administration in the realm that developed and produced no documents relating to a king's peaceful efforts. The recent sagas Øysteins government, is also an essential part characterized by purely literary motifs. Relations with Sigurd was poor but, open fracture was avoided. Øysteins and Sigurd's reign became the longest joint rule in Norwegian history. Upon his death in 1123
Øystein married Ingebjørg Guttormsdatter, from a prominent noble family of Gudbrandsdalen. Their marriage was part of Øysteins strategy of building alliances in Eastern Norway. They had a daughter, Maria, who became the mother of the future royal pretender Olaf Ugjæva by her marriage to the lendmann Gudbrand Skavhoggsson. Olaf was named king in 1165, during the Norwegian civil war era, but was subsequently defeated by Magnus Erlingsson and forced to flee the country.
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- "Theodoricus Monachus" in Monument historica Norvegiæ, ed. by G. Storm, 1880
- E. Bull: Biography (Eystein Magnusson) in NBL1, Vol. 3, 1926
- ds: Jemtland and Norway, 1926, pp. 15-18
- H. Small: Studies in Mannheim Caskets Glas style VSK Skr. II 1936 no. 5, 1937, pp. 31-32 and 56-68
- K. Helle: Bergen city's history, Vol. 1, Bergen 1982, pp. 114-116
- ME Jasinski, "Kong Øysteins harbor at Agdenes", in Viking, Vol. 58, 1995, pp. 73-104
- https://nbl.snl.no/%C3%98ystein_1_Magnusson
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eystein_I_of_Norway
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