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- Setesvein or setesvenn is the name of medieval and pre-reformatory armed pages who acted as local representatives of a bishop or of a feudal lord in Norway...
- (1391–1411), originally a Danish monk. The Archbishop of Nidaros had setesveins in Iceland. Two are mentioned in a list from 1533, whereof ‘Oluff Lagmand’...
- Norway, a typical location of setesveins was a central position with immediate control of the lucrative fisheries. Some setesveins belonged to the secular aristocracy...
- Christian III arrives in Norway. The army splits in two. One part plunders setesveins of Olav Engelbrektsson, the other part heads to Hamar to arrest Bishop...