Eric Birgersson

Who is Eric Birgersson?

Duke Eric Birgersson was a Swedish duke.

His father was Birger jarl, the real ruler of Sweden 1250-66 and Ingeborg of Sweden.

In Magnúss saga lagabœtis, allegedly Erik have called himself "Eirek allz-ekki" because he had no title. Only when Magnus III became king, Eric over his title and call himself Duke . Rolf Pipping has pointed out that the nickname can be a ordvits, with a PLEONASTIC negation, that is to name Erik to be perceived as "non" and name + sobriquet or rather that "is not really nothing." Sakuppgiften can therefore be false and which may flow from that fairy tale writer Sturla Gunnarson Tord wanted to show off their linguistic skills.

When his father's grave in Varnhem Abbey was opened and examined in May 2002, osteologists Torbjörn Ahlström from Lund University, confirm that the tomb contained the remains of three people - probably Birger Jarl, his second wife, Matilda of Holstein, and Erik. His father's skeleton shows he was about 172 cm long - while Erik's was a few inches longer, but much thinner build. His muscular attachments were poorly developed. In the vertebrae and sternum were some signs of pathological changes, and he would have been 25 years of age when he died in 1275.