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  • 24 - Inter-Scandinavian relations

  • from PART VII - SCANDINAVIAN UNIONS (1319–1520)
  • Edited by Knut Helle, Universitetet i Bergen, Norway
  • Book:
    The Cambridge History of Scandinavia
    Published online:
    28 March 2008
    Print publication:
    04 September 2003, pp 710-770

  • Summary

    Inter-Scandinavian relations in the late Middle Ages were strongly influenced by geopolitical conditions as they had been already in the latter part of the high Middle Ages. Scandinavian union history starts in the year 1319 when a Swedish-Norwegian personal union was established as an unplanned consequence of the three year-old Magnus Eriksson's accession to the thrones of Norway and Sweden. During the period 1355-75, Swedish political scene was dominated by continued strife and unrest which threatened the kingdom with partition. The election of Olaf in the 1370s may be said to have put Denmark under the rule of the Norwegian royal house and thus to have heralded the later Nordic union. The removal of King Erik, the installation of Duke Christopher as king of Denmark in 1440, and the succession conflict also influenced the inter-Scandinavian relations. With the events of 1522-23, the late medieval epoch of a union between all three Nordic kingdoms finally ended.