Erik of Denmark

King Erik I of Denmark

King of Denmark

1103

Erik I's journey to Jerusalem and deeds in the newly established Latin East and in Constantinople were recorded in a variety of Latin and Old Norse sources. He returned with a relic of the True Cross and of Saint Nicholas.

Queen Bodil of Denmark

tr. Hermann Pálsson; Paul Edwards (1986). Knytlinga Saga: The History of the Kings of Denmark. Odense: Odense University Press, chapter 79; Christiansen, Eric, ed. (1980–81), Danorum Regum Heroumque Historia, Books X-XVI. The Text of the first edition with translation and commentary in three volumes, Oxford: British Archaeological Reports, XII.7.4

Kurt Villads Jensen, Crusading at the Edges of Europe: Denmark and Portugal c.1000-c.1250 (London and New York: Routledge, 2017), pp. 108-112.