Eriksgata (i.e. "Erik's Road") was the tour traditionally taken in the Middle Ages by a newly-elected Swedish king through the important provinces of...
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Runestones at Aspa (section Tingshögen and Eriksgata)
1600, and the newly elected king passed the stones during his Eriksgata. The Eriksgata was the traditional journey of the newly elected medieval Swedish...
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was instituted, that meant that the Eriksgata had little practical importance. The last king to travel the Eriksgata according to the old tradition was...
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re-erected in the 1960s and apparently marking out the route of the Eriksgata. The inscription on the runestone reads: + fulkuiþr + raisti + stainn...
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Exact location of the Lionga ting is not known, but it was along the Eriksgata. The term "-köping" means there was a market there. Historically, Linköping...
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behalf of the people, recognized the elected king when he passed on the Eriksgata. However, after the establishment of the province laws, c. 1350, he would...
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Eleonora never made the traditional journey through the country, the Eriksgata, on her own. Instead, she made it with Frederick in 1722, after his coronation...
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in the sense of a proper noun meaning "one ruler" may be the origin of Eriksgata, and if so it would have meant "one ruler's journey". The tour was the...
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Charles XI Inauguration of the Christina Church The monarch makes his Eriksgata. The start of a five year long period of bad harvests. Anna Catharina...
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newly elected king also had to go on a traditional journey around Sweden (Eriksgata), including the Geatish provinces. It was thus a sort of federation where...
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