MAGNUS VI

(Magnus the Law Mender), 1238–80, king of Norway (1263–80), son of Haakon IV. A man of peace, he brought an end to the Scottish war by ceding (1266) the Hebrides and the Isle of Man to Alexander III of Scotland for a large sum. He immediately undertook a general revision of the laws, introducing (1274) a new code for the kingdom and subsequently new municipal laws. His code introduced the concept that crime is an offense against the state rather than against the individual and thus narrowed the possibilities of personal vengeance. It greatly increased the power of the king, making the throne the source of justice. The municipal law gave the cities increased freedom from rural control. One of his enactments fixed the law of succession to the throne; another, by its creation of a new royal council and of new ranks of nobility, laid the foundation of a new governing class. In 1277, Magnus and the church reached an agreement on the limits of church and state power. He was succeeded by his sons, Eric II (reigned 1280–99), who was the father of Margaret Maid of Norway, and Haakon V (reigned 1299–1319).

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Poetic Maneuvers: Hans Magnus Enzensberger and the Lyric Genre
Book by Charlotte Ann Melin; Northwestern University Press, 2003
Subjects: Enzensberger, Hans Magnus--Criticism And Interpretation, German Poetry--20th Century--History And Criticism, German Poetry--Social Aspects--Germany--History--20th Century
...Robert von Hallberg Poetic Maneuvers Hans Magnus Enzensberger and the Lyric Genre CHARLOTTE...Summer Poem and Bill of Fare, in Hans Magnus Enzensberger, SelectedPoems, trans. Hans Magnus Enzensberger and Michael Hamburger (Newcastle...
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Scottish National Consciousness in the Age of James VI: The Apocalypse, the Union and the Shaping of Scotland's Public Culture
Book by Arthur H. Williamson; John Donald, 2003
Subjects: Nationalism--Scotland--History, Scotland--History--16th Century, Scotland--History--17th Century
...National Consciousness in the Age of James VI 01 this faire world without the world, no...National Consciousness in the Age of James VI: The Apocalypse, the Union and the Shaping...perhaps never more so than to King James VI. And yet not all Scots would agree. John...
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The Works of Voltaire: A Contemporary Version [Ancient and Modern History, V. VI: England, 1661 -- China, Japan, 1690] - Vol. 29
Book by William F. Fleming, John Morley, Voltaire; E. R. DuMont, 1901
...MODERN HISTORY IN SEVEN VOLUMES VOL. VI ENGLAND, 1661 CHINA, JAPAN, 1690 LIST...cabal. Pius V. was of mean origin; Adrian VI. was the son of an artificer; Nicholas...power ever since the time of Alexander VI. Nothing now troubled the public tranquillity...
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Ausonius of Bordeaux: Genesis of a Gallic Aristocracy
Book by Hagith Sivan; Routledge, 1993
Subjects: Aristocracy (Social Class)--Gaul--History, Ausonius, Decimus Magnus, Bordeaux (France)--Antiquities, Roman, Bordeaux (France)--In Literature, Gaul--In Literature, Gaul--Intellectual Life, Gaul--Politics And Government, Poets, Latin--France--Biography, Poets, Latin--Homes And Haunts--France--Bordeaux, Romans--France--Bordeaux, Rome--History--Empire, 284-476--Biography
...bibliographical references (p.) and index. 1. Ausonius, Decimus Magnus. 2. Poets, Latin-France Bordeaux-Biography. 3. Aristocracy...successful member of the fourth generation Arborii, Aemilius Magnus Arborius. 27 The only male offspring of Arborius and Maura...
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The Second Part of King Henry the Sixth
Book by Tucker Brooke; Yale University Press, 1923
Subjects: Henry--Vi--King Of England--1421-1471--Drama
...facsimile opposite reproduces the title-page of the earliest version of the play later known as The Second Part of King Henry VI. It is a good example of the descriptive title-page designed for advertising purposes. Only two or three copies are known, of...
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A Nuptial Cento Modeled on That of Decius Magnus Ausonius (310 A.D.-Ca 394. A.D.)
Journal article by David R. Slavitt; New England Review, Vol. 19, 1998
Subjects: Epithalamia
...Venice III , 2. 16. 1st part Henry VI I , 5. 16. Tempest II , 1...nibbling. 14. Gold bides still. 15. VI Epithalamion The holy vows of heaven...Andronicus IV , 1. 11. 2nd part Henry VI IV , 2. 12. Hamlet I , 2...
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The Work of Artists in a Databased Society: Net.Art as Online Activism
Journal article by Richard Miranda Zuniga; Afterimage, Vol. 29, 2002
Subjects: Constituents of a Theory of the Media (Essay)--Excerpts, Enzenberger, Hans Magnus--Authorship, Habermas, Jurgen--Authorship, Institute for Applied Autonomy--Political activity, Internet--Standards, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...manifesto "Constituents of a Theory of the Media,, (23) Hans Magnus Enzenberger presents the following table to summarize the social...Apparatus of communication" in Radiotext(e), Semiotext(e) S16 (Vol. VI, No. 1, 1993) p. 15. When the world of television heralded the...
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Kristina Lindell (1928-2005): In Memoriam
Journal article by Magnus Fiskesjo; Asian Folklore Studies, Vol. 64, 2005
Subjects: Lindell, Kristina, Scholars--Biography
...BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORKS BY KRISTINA LINDELL A list compiled by Magnus Fiskesjo, with special thanks to Jan-Olof Svantesson, Hakan Lundstrom...London, Kegan Paul International. 1998 Folk Tales from Kammu VI: A Tellers Last Tales. With Jan-Ojvind Swahn and Damrong Tayanin...
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'Intolerable Love': Tristrams Saga and the Carlisle Tristan Fragment
Journal article by Alison Finlay; Medium Aevum, Vol. 73, 2004
Subjects: Bedier, Joseph--Works, Sagas--Analysis, Sagas--Translations and translating, Thomas, Saint--Works, Tristan (Folk tale)--Translations and translating
...King Hakon. A seventeenth-century copy made by Magnus Markusson was itself copied by Magnus Olafsson, and it is this copy that now survives. To it the Icelandic manuscript collector Arni Magnusson appended a note recording Magnus Markussons...
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The Amplified Saga: Structural Disunity in Morkinskinna
Journal article by Armann Jakobsson; Medium Aevum, Vol. 70, 2001
Subjects: Iceland--Literature, Literature, Medieval--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Norway--Literature, Sagas--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...Hreidarr has walked around King Magnus, the King encircles him in the...Formali, in Islenzk fornrit, VI, ed. Bjorn K. Porolfsson and...that concerning the sons of King Magnus Barefoot) as an interlaced narrative...Formali, in Islenzk fornrit, VI (Reykjavik, 1943), p. cvii...
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State of the Union
Magazine article by Magnus Linklater; New Statesman, Vol. 134, September 5, 2005
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, The Thistle and the Rose: Six Centuries of Love and Hate Between the Scots and the English (Book)--Book reviews
...Margaret Tudor in 1503, through the union of the crowns under James VI, and on to the political accord of 1707 and the flourishing of trade...rather than exported south. That, I would contend, is progress. Magnus Linklater is a columnist on the Times
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Britain 1300
Magazine article by Bruce M. S. Campbell; History Today, Vol. 50, June 2000
Subjects: British--History, United Kingdom--14th century
...personal rule in 1262, whereupon one of his first and greatest achievements would be to negotiate the treaty of Perth with Magnus VI, king of Norway, thereby securing the Western Isles to Scotland. Meanwhile, early in 1258, somewhere in the tropics...
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Edmund Spenser: The Boyhood of a Poet
Magazine article by Donald Bruce; Contemporary Review, Vol. 264, February 1994
Subjects: Poets--Biography, Spenser, Edmund--Biography
...local churches, such as the pre-Wren St. Magnus Martyr, at that time at the end of Suffolk...across the road, pulled down under Edward VI and later turned into a warehouse by Elizabeth...waters fall tuning their accents fit. (F.Q. VI x 7). Spensers vanity at having achieved...
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Playing the King: George Bernard Shaw Influenced the Abdication Crisis with a Short Play That Has Been Forgotten in the Last Seventy Years. Stanley Weintraub Remembers It, and We Reproduce It on Our Website
Magazine article by Stanley Weintraub; History Today, Vol. 56, December 2006
Subjects: Royalty--History, Shaw, George Bernard--Influence, Shaw, George Bernard--Works, Simpson, Wallis Warfield, Duchess of Windsor--Family, Simpson, Wallis Warfield, Duchess of Windsor--History, Simpson, Wallis Warfield, Duchess of Windsor--Political activity, The Apple Cart (Play)--Influence
...the Crown in Chancery, reported this to Edwards younger brother, the Duke of York, who was now effectively the new King George VI. Aware of the situation described in The Apple Cart, and, now, of Shaws newspaper skit, he exclaimed Thats quite wrong. If he...
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In Search of the NAFTA Judges
Magazine article by Sheila R. Cherry; Insight on the News, Vol. 17, September 10, 2001
Subjects: Alston, Caratina L.--Conduct of life, Free trade--International aspects, North American Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act of 1993
...Environmental. John P. Magnus Dewey...agreements, among other things, Magnus has served as counsel...
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Rugby Union: Warwick Eye National Glory
Newspaper article; Coventry Evening Telegraph (England), October 14, 2008
Subjects: Rugby football
...Henrys HS, Evesham 0 Worcester VI Form College 50, King Edward VI School, Stratford 29 Worcester RGSAOS 7, Kenilworth School 17...Arnold Hill School 7 Manor School 35, Worksop College 50 The Magnus C of E School 0, Mount St Marys College 59 Wath CS 5, Hall Cross...
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MARRY YOUR MUM-IN-LAW; BIG SHAKE-UP PUTS STATE OF OUR UNIONS IN THE SPOTLIGHTTATE OF OUR UNIONS IN THE SPOTLIGHT You Can under New Laws for Scotland
Newspaper article; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), February 9, 2005
...SPOTLIGHT You Can under New Laws for Scotland. Byline: By Magnus Gardham MEN could soon be allowed to marry their mother-in...Scotland) Act. It is based on laws passed in1567 by King James VI which, in turn, were based on the Bibles Book of Leviticus...
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In Brief
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), September 20, 2006
Subjects: Horse racing, Horse-racing
...other major prizes in National Hunt racing, including the 1999 King George VI Chase at Kempton on See More Business, the Queen Mother Champion Chase on...Lindgren 10, Ronnie Correy 4, Christian Hefenbrock 4, William Lawson 2+1, Magnus Karlsson 1+1.
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SKY BLUES QUIZ; How Well Do You Know the Sky Blues? Jim Brown Presents 60 Questions to Keep You Occupied over Christmas
Newspaper article; Coventry Evening Telegraph (England), December 23, 2006
...first ever substitute in 1965 and who did he replace? 6: Since Magnus Hedman left City in 2002, which goalkeeper has made the most...East Stand 8: Blackburn Rovers 9: For the death of King George VI 10: John Key Section Four 1: Marton Fulop and Dean Kiely 2: Gary...
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Ascot Takes Positive View of [Pounds Sterling]10m Revamp
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), May 3, 2007
...Takeover Target (the reigning Global Sprint Challenge champion), Magnus and Bentley Biscuit, Grand Supreme from Hong Kong and Trueheart from America. Meanwhile, the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes is the target of Japanese raiders Delta...
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Magnus VI
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
MAGNUS VI (Magnus the Law Mender), 1238 80, king of Norway (1263 80), son of Haakon IV...ranks of nobility, laid the foundation of a new governing class. In 1277, Magnus and the church reached an agreement on the limits of church and state...
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Magnus VII
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...1343) his son Haakon (later Haakon VI) as his successor in Norway, over...of age (1355). Early in his reign Magnus had acquired the Danish provinces...Bergen during Magnuss reign, induced Magnus and Haakon VI to enter (1363) an alliance with...
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Alexander III , King of Scotland
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...battered his ships, and he was defeated in the battle of Largs in the Clyde river. In 1266, Alexander signed a treaty with Magnus VI, assigning the islands to Scotland. Alexander survived his children, and when he died his only near relative was his little...
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Haakon IV
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the court. Haakon died at Kirkwall in the Orkney Islands when campaigning against Scotland. He was succeeded by his son, Magnus VI. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press...
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Norway
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Birkebeiner in 1217; under him and under Magnus VI (reigned 1263 80) medieval Norway...halted by the accession (1319) of Magnus VII , who was also king of Sweden...surrender (1343) to his son, Haakon VI, husband of Margaret I of Denmark...
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