battle, but a spear impales them both. Magnus was buried in the Church of St. Hallvard in Oslo. There is a monument erected in memory of King Magnus the Blind at the Storedal farm in Skjeberg in Østfold county. Norwegian civil war During the civil wars period of Norwegian history (1130–1240) there were several interlocked conflicts of varying scale and intensity. The background for these conflicts were the unclear Norwegian succession laws, social conditions and the struggle between church and king. There were then two main parties, firstly known by varying names or no names at all, but finally condensed into parties of Bagler and Birkebeiner. The rallying point regularly was a royal son, who was set up as the head figure of the party in question, to oppose the rule of king from the contesting party. ((Baglers and Birkebeiners did not exist before until about 30 years later, so this entry is not relevant to the subject matter, as it was a completely different war, in the same historical series of conflicts)) References External links The saga of Magnus the Blinde and Harald Gille The saga of the sons of Harald Gille 1110s births 1139 deaths 12th-century Norwegian monarchs House of Hardrada Norwegian civil wars Monarchs killed in action Norwegian blind people Blind royalty and nobility Norwegian amputees Castrated people Norwegian military personnel killed in the Norwegian civil wars Royalty and nobility with disabilities