“Some of it was used to buy weapons. The people did not get half a kilogram of maize.”
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Håkan the Red
Håkan the Red was a King of Sweden, reigning for about half a decade in the second half of the 11th century. There is little information on him, and it is mostly contradictory. Nothing is known about his reign.
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politics · King of Sweden · monarch · also Håkan the Red, Hacon Red, Red
Born 1 January 1040 · Died 1 January 1079 · Q537489
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“[But] if that percentage of money had been diverted, far more than a million people would have died.”
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Died 1079-01-01.
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Born 1040-01-01.
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