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From: "Jo Rune Ugulen" <>
Subject: SV: SV: SV: SV: The family of Magnús "berfætti Óla
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 20:17:02 +0200

Per Lilje <> wrote in message
news:7j0ui5$buq$1@readme.uio.no...
> Absolutely so, he killed those who claimed he was not a king's son. His
claim was
> supported by his victory. The winner is always right, the losers/dead are
always
> wrong.

Does that make him a kings son??

> Of course he can, if he is the one who decides the laws. (And Sverre had
the
> courage even to decide his own laws on the church, which was near to to
make laws
> opposite to the command of God.

Sverre was a priest, and used only the rhetoric used by any other cleric
that opposed the increase of the power of the church at the cost of the
'other establishment.' This is seen all around Europe. Lawyers were well
known even then.

> History, and all political "sciences" are not sciences. In those truth is
not
> something absolute, but something very, very relative.

Agree, but this applies to everything, not only science:-)
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