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Nothing more is known about the two Erics, though some modern historians speculated that one of them was a Christian son of Stenkil, and the other a pagan; accordingly, they are sometimes assigned the invented names of Eric Stenkilsson and Eric the Heathen. No basis for those names can be substantiated from their own times and they are as such not considered historical. Despite only being mentioned by Adam of Bremen, and omitted in other sources on the period, it is likely that Eric and Eric themselves were historical figures as Adam of Bremen is unlikely to have invented figures so close to his own time of writing (the 1070s).

After Eric and Eric were dead, Halsten, son of King Stenkil, ascended to the throne.

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