Et kongebrev fra Magnus Lagabøter til et dansk kloster anno 1270

Sammendrag

An otherwise lost letter from king Magnus Lagabøter of Norway to the abbot of Ringsted abbey in Denmark is preserved in a partially quoted verbatim and partially referenced form in a Danish collection of miracles connected to the saint’s cult over king Erik IV Ploughpenny of Denmark (murdered 1250). The letter must have been written in 1270, sometime after 23. May, at the earliest. It was written in response to a now lost letter from the abbot to the king which must have been sent probably sometime between 10. August 1269 and before 23. May 1270. The article identifies the existence of the letter from Magnus Lagabøter as this medieval correspondence has previously gone unnoticed by the relevant source editions in both Denmark and Norway.