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Origins. Sverker was a wealthy landowner from Östergötland. According to the Westrogothic law (c. 1240), his father's name was Cornube, [1] but according to the Icelandic Skáldatal, his father's name was Kol. A later pedigree has the filiation Kettil – Kol – Kornike (Cornube) – Sverker. [2] .
- Cornube
- Roman Catholicism
- c. 1132 – 25 December 1156
- Eric IX
Faroe Islands. Finland. Iceland. Norway. Sweden. v. t. e. Vikings were seafaring people originally from Scandinavia (present-day Denmark, Norway, and Sweden ), [3] [4] [5] [6] who from the late 8th to the late 11th centuries raided, pirated, traded, and settled throughout parts of Europe.
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