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Arn: The Knight Templar (Swedish: Arn: Tempelriddaren) is an epic film based on Jan Guillou's trilogy about the fictional Swedish Knight Templar Arn Magnusson.The film was released to cinemas in Sweden on 17 December 2007 [1] and the sequel, Arn – The Kingdom at Road's End (Arn – Riket vid vägens slut), was released 22 August 2008, but both films were combined into a single cut for the ...
The Crusades Trilogy is a series of historical novels written by Swedish author and journalist Jan Guillou about the Consolidation of Sweden and the Crusades.The main character of the trilogy is Arn Magnusson, a fictional Knight Templar in the 12th century, who becomes a witness as well as a catalyst to many important historical events both in his homeland of Västra Götaland and in the ...
The Heritage of Arn (Swedish: Arvet efter Arn) is a sequel to The Knight Templar (Crusades trilogy) by Jan Guillou about Birger Jarl, the founder of Stockholm - fictionalized to be Arn Magnusson's grandson. The story spans across a transitional period of Scandinavia where the last remnants of the Viking traditions are replaced by continental ...
The two also befriend a young Sverker maid, Ulvhilde Emundsdotter, ironically the daughter of the man who was famously defeated by Arn Magnusson and later slain by Canute. The three form a lifelong friendship and with their wit and cunning eventually become a ruling force in the nation (more so in the following books).
The book follows the fictional character of Arn Magnusson from his birth and until he sets off to Jerusalem. Arn is born in Arnäs, Sweden in the year 1150. At the age of 5, he has an accident while climbing a scaffold and is saved due to his mother's prayers to Saint Bernard of Clairvaux. The conditions stated in the prayer for their sons ...
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Arn, the protagonist's friend in Hal Foster's Prince Valiant comic strip, and Valiant's first son, named after the friend; Arn Magnusson, the fictional main character in the Crusades trilogy (1998-2000) by Swedish author Jan Guillou, as well as the film adaptation Arn: The Knight Templar (2007) based on the first two books of the trilogy