Harald Kesja, having fled to Denmark after…

May 1135 CE

Harald Kesja, having fled to Denmark after the Battle of Fotevi, has been proclaimed king at Urnehoved landsting in Schleswig.

Eric II chases him down and decapitates Kesja and eight of his sons, of whom only Olaf Haraldsen escapes with his life.

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