Spillet om magten

S1 · E1 · 1 set 1996

Episode 1 Episodio 1

Series of power and murder, war and peace. We are with Piet van Deurs back in time to the scene of a series of fate games, and where a brave Danish king tonight emerges from the darkness of history in the company of an emperor, an old monk and - an elephant. We go down to Aachen, Dorestad and Hedeby to define the background for the drama.

S1 · E2 · 8 set 1996

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What is myth - and what is reality? Piet Van Deurs this time takes us to Jelling and Tamdrup and tells about the glowing glove that made the king jump in the tub and renounce Thor and Odin and move the body of his old father from one of the big hills in Jelling.

S1 · E3 · 15 set 1996

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What is myth - and what is reality? With Piet Van Deurs we will tonight go to Helgenæs, where Harald Bluetooth ended his days very unfortunate and unworthy - and we must fight with his son Svend, who was snatched by the enemy and showed his weight worth in gold.

S1 · E4 · 22 set 1996

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Sweyn Forkbeard and his son Knud, called the Great, are the protagonists of the fourth of Piet van Deur's fate tales. Both father and son periodically ruled on both sides of the North Sea before the Danes had to give up the idea of ruling over the British Isles. Piet van Deurs this time takes us to the battlefield of the English.

S1 · E5 · 29 set 1996

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Piet van Deurs talks about the chess game that killed - and about King Knud the Great and the clever, but lame Svend, who wrote Denmark's story on good and evil. We meet, with Piet van Deurs, the last Viking king down in the crypt under Vor Frue in Århus, but first to a game of chess that sent one player to death.

S1 · E6 · 6 ott 1996

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It sounds crazy - and is quite crazy that music can lead to murder, committed by a man who is otherwise termed Ejegod. It must be zoned! This time we were taken with Piet van Deurs for a strange concert - hear about the mysterious Elephant and with the King down to Cyprus, down to the fever, where myth and reality melt together.

S1 · E7 · 13 ott 1996

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A weekend comes to an end when a Christmas party in the royal family ends with an eerie murder in Haraldsted Forest, and where we, with Piet van Deurs, follow the fateful game over in the bloody battle at Fodevig and the hour of revenge down in Schleswig.

S1 · E8 · 20 ott 1996

Episode 8 Episodio 8

About a great drama in history's eerie theater with Svend, Knud and Valdemar, as main actors, where in "last act" with Piet van Deur ends at Grathe Hede outside Viborg. Here the last act of the battle for power was played out - and here also the last remnants of King Svend, who ended up losing the battle, losing Denmark - and life.

S1 · E9 · 27 ott 1996

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S1 · E10 · 3 nov 1996

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About the prelude to a mutiny - about King Valdemar the Great's strange death in the bed of the sweets and the obituary he brought with him in the coffin, and all that preceded. With Piet van Deurs we reach the fleet's rent in Grønsund - for weekend sailing in Ringsted and Absalon as Archbishop over in Lund - and that gave trouble.

S1 · E11 · 10 nov 1996

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Myth or reality? Do you really have to ask about what happened in Estonia. Piet van Deurs takes us to the "King's Garden" in Tallin and a small church where Dannebrog still floats on the altar .... and to Lyø, where a hunting company ended with the King being abducted .... and Bornhöved, where "The crown fell off the Danish head".

S1 · E12 · 17 nov 1996

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He did not succeed in becoming the saint - Erik Plovpennig, even though the brother lowered him in Slien; but in Schleswig Cathedral, the chains that were used to thin the body are preserved. The brother ended up in Pøl Mose - a third brother must be dead in Lyksborg by altar wine - and then there is the murder in Finderup and Piet van Deurs also reaches out on the outlaw Marsk Stigs Hjelm.

S1 · E13 · 24 nov 1996

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Myth and harsh reality: This is a picture of the face of war and death - from Visby on Gotland, from which Piet van Deurs reports on Valdemar Atterdag's strong rider army, who simply mowers the peasants, while the rafters look up from the city walls. But before that, Niels Ebbesen's murder of "The Countless Count" in Randers and the mysterious story of Brother Otto.

S1 · E14 · 1 dic 1996

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It all begins at Gurre Castle, where the King floats between life and death, and to which daughter Margrete comes down from Norway to have her son sit on the throne ..... will it succeed? And how is it to sit back at a harsh castle in Norway - without enough money for food and salaries for the servants? And how does it feel to lose his only son and be accused of trying to kill him. And where everything finally succeeds - with the Kalmar Union.

S1 · E15 · 29 dic 1996

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