*SPOILER AHEAD!*
Not only were Arn and Cecilia separated, but it was for a whopping twenty years! And they weren't allowed to know their own son before he was twenty years old!
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:O what a story indeed! Incredibly sad I agree.
Ohh and just one thing I HAVE to say.. some people in sweden thinks that Arn and Cecilia and the whole story from the book is true, which is not true (Jan Gulliou made it up XP) (can't spell the mans name!)
Well, it's both true and untrue. It's surely based on historical knowledge about the period. Arn's mother Sigrid is based on a lady Sigrid, who donated her estate Varnhem to the monks. Arn's wife Cecilia is based on a Cecilia Rosa, who was the mistress of the estate Forsvik. There really was a long civil war between the Eriks and the Sverkers, and the kings and queens from both dynasties are historical figures. So are Birger Brosa, Magnus Månesköld, Ingrid Ylva, Birger Jarl and many other characters in these books. And even Arn himself seems to have existed in a sense, because there's a picture of a knights templar above the gates of a church in Västergötland, so there must have been at least one knights templar in that very region. Jan Guillou (that's how you spell his name) might have taken some historical liberties. For example, Magnus Månesköld's father's name wasn't Arn Magnusson, but Bengt Snivel, and Birger Brosa seems to have lived much earlier in the books than what he did in reality. But as a whole, I think the four books turned out very well, and when it comes down to it, the historical liberties are really so small, that they easily can be ignored.
And thanks by the way for opening this thread. I thought it was stillborn.
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