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    6th millennium BC, and was founded as a city in 1252 by Swedish statesman Birger Jarl. The city serves as the county seat of Stockholm County. Stockholm...
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    House'). According to the Erik's Chronicle, it was built in 1285 by King Birger. It had evidently fallen into disrepair by 1455, as it had to be rebuilt...
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    Mälaren. It landed on present day Riddarholmen where today the Tower of Birger Jarl stands, a building, as a consequence, still often erroneously mentioned...
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    cathedral and a monastery were built; the Gothic cathedral, rebuilt by Birger Jarl on an earlier site, and consecrated in 1271, was restored in the 19th...
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    ideology among Scandinavian historians. In 1925, the Swedish archaeologist Birger Nerman summarized the ebbs and tides of its historicity. He stated that...
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    this site was a fortress with a core tower built in the 13th century by Birger Jarl to defend Lake Mälaren. The fortress grew to a castle, eventually named...
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    altered. The leftmost is Birger Jarls torn located in the north-western corner of the islet and erroneously named after Birger Jarl, by tradition attributed...
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    town between the Norwegian prince Hákon the Younger and the Swedish ruler Birger Jarl in 1249. The verse ran, loosely translated: The whole river was so...
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  • Allan Pettersson (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Orchestra). He also studied composition with the composer and conductor Karl-Birger Blomdahl, orchestration with the conductor Tor Mann, and counterpoint with...
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