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Arn: The Knight Templar
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Arn: The Knight Templar is a series of books by Swedish author Jan Guillou, also known as The Crusades Trilogy, and a film (or two, in Scandinavia; it was condensed to one international release) telling the story of a young man who finds himself as one of The Knights Templar as penance after falling in love with and bedding Cecilia, and conceiving a child out of wedlock. From his beginnings as a child monk being trained in the sword to befriending Saladin, we get a snapshot of his entire life. While much of the film takes place during The Crusades, it also takes much time out to elaborate on Arn's past and Cecilia's current penance as well as the sociopolitical climate in the kingdom that one day will be Sweden.The book series consists of the following: The Road to Jerusalem The Templar Knight Birth of the KingdomThere was also a sequel, The Heritage After Arn, about a fictionalized version of real historical person Birger Jarl, which has not yet been translated.The books were a huge success with Swedish audiences, spawning walking tours of historical sites as well as television documentaries and a renewed interest in medieval history. | |
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Cool Old Guy | |
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Cool Old Guy: Brother Guilbert at Arn's bachelor party, as stag nights in this period involved a contest of arms, with seven events. In spite of never having practiced two of the events (throwing spears and throwing axes) and going up against men a third of his age, he still manages to place second. | |
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Master Swordsman | |
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Master Swordsman: Most of the Knights Templar, but Arn and Brother Guilbert (and later Arn's students) are the ones most remarked upon by other characters. Among the Templars at Gaza, Arn is remarked on as very good, but according to him there are five brothers there who are his equals and three who are better. This fact renders Harald, who until then has considered Arn capable of taking God in a straight fight, gobsmacked. | |
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The Cameo | |
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The Cameo: The young English knight with whom Arn jousts, is revealed to be Sir Wilfred Ivanhoe. | |
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Green-Eyed Monster | |
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Green-Eyed Monster: Cecilia's sister, Katarina. When she learns that Arn fell in love with and slept with Cecilia after having rejected her, Katarina outs them to Mother Rikissa and lies about sleeping with Arn herself. | |
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Guile Hero | |
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Guile Hero: Birger Brosa is the key player in the Folkung clan's political ambitions, and a highly skilled politician. Arn comments that even in the Holy Land, home to every schemer, opportunist and ambition-monger in Europe, people who could play politics as well as his uncle Birger were rare. | |
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Dead Guy Junior | |
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Also a few instances of combinations of aversion of it and and Dead Guy Junior; Arn and Cecilia Rosa's son is named Magnus, although Old Sir Magnus is not yet dead when he's born, and there's the case of a number of kings named Knut and Erik. | |
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Historical Hero Upgrade | |
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Historical Hero Upgrade: The Erik and Sverker houses. In the film, Erik the Holy is assasinated in Västra Götaland by Karl Sverkersson and his nasty henchman Emund Ulvbane. In actual history, he was killed in Uppsala by a Danish noble called Magnus Henriksson and his allies (the Sverkers might have been part of them). This was pretty unpopular among the peasantry and he was killed at Örebro. Then Karl Sverkersson, who was already king in Östra Götaland, took over the throne. It's worth to note that some medieval sources claim that Karl Sverkersson's own father also had been killed on Magnus Henriksson's order. Then Knut (or at least his men) murdered Karl Sverkersson. In the film, Knuts killing of the king becomes a straight up revenge killing and puts the Sverkers in a bad light and the Eriks in a much better one. | |
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Ungrateful Bastard | |
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Ungrateful Bastard: In the second film, Arn stops a rogue crusader from attacking innocent Saracens by using non-lethal methods, knocking him to the ground, then offering him his hand afterwards to show him mercy. In return, the rogue crusader kills Arn's horse. Arn promptly snaps and kills the crusader and his henchmen for it afterwards. | |
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I Am X, Son of Y | |
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I Am X, Son of Y.: Ubiquitous due to the setting, but becomes significant in one case, namely that of Bengt Elinsson. Bengt was born Bengt Svantesson, but his father was an abusive drunk, who even killed Bengt's mother Elin in a drunken rage. After Elin's death is avenged by her clansmen (including Arn), Bengt sheds his father's clan colors and name and chooses to identify himself as his mother's son. | |
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Honor Before Reason | |
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Honor Before Reason: Subverted. Arn is honorable, but he is also pragmatic enough to know dying with honor isn't all it's cracked up to be. | |
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High Priest | |
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High Priest: The Church is a major power both among the Templars and in Sweden, so there are multiple examples of this trope, including several Archbishops and Popes. | |
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Friendly Enemy | |
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Friendly Enemy: Arn and Saladin; they've saved each others' lives, like and respect each other, and have many opinions about the future of Palestine in common. However, they're also determined to defeat the other on the battlefield because it is God's Will. | |
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Improbable Use of a Weapon | |
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Improbable Use of a Weapon: Arn doesn't have a dominant hand, so he regularly switches between right-handedness and left-handedness to throw his adversaries off guard. | |
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Action Prologue | |
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Action Prologue: The film opens with Arn saving a caravan from bandits. | |
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Small Role, Big Impact | |
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Small Role, Big Impact: Cecilia's jealous sister only have a few appearances, but is the cause of Cecilia and Arn being separated for 20 years, Cecilia having to serve in a convent while Arn is forced into service in the Holy Land. | |
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Arranged Marriage | |
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Arranged Marriage: Cecilia violates her arranged marriage to a Sverker warrior with Arn, driving her into penance as a lay sister and causing Arn to become a Templar. | |
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Ragtag Bunch of Misfits | |
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Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: Arn and Saladin have shades of this whenever they hang out. | |
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Sibling Yin-Yang | |
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Sibling Yin-Yang: Arn and Eskil, as adults. Arn is a devoted warrior and a man of God, Eskil is a cunning merchant with a fondness for swearing, food and beer. Despite this, they get along very well. There is a "Not So Different" Remark involved: Arn explains that, as castellan of Gaza, he had to be as much Merchant Prince, judge, politician and diplomat as a soldier. Also, to a certain extent, Cecilia Rosa and Katarina; Cecilia is romantic, devoted and faithful, while Katarina is opportunistic, conniving and hedonistic. | |
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Horse Archer | |
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Horse Archer: Arn is one, leading to his reputation among the Saracens. Also, obviously, the Turcopoles. | |
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"Not So Different" Remark | |
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There is a "Not So Different" Remark involved: Arn explains that, as castellan of Gaza, he had to be as much Merchant Prince, judge, politician and diplomat as a soldier. | |
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Cool Horse | |
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Cool Horse: All the Arabian horses compared to the Nordic coldbloods, but especially Kamsiin. | |
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Cool Sword | |
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Cool Sword: Arn's sword was given to him by Brother Guilbert who was never defeated while wielding it. He is told never to raise it in anger or use it for personal benefit. | |
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Recycled Premise | |
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Recycled Premise: The basic plot is the same as The White Viking: a young man is forced to commit to a crusade as a punishment, while his beloved (who is pregnant) is locked in a monastery, the man being given a symbol of female divinity as protection during his quest, and the beloved receiving false news of his death, while in fact he has been saved by the leader of the opponents to Christianity. | |
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Finish Him! | |
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Finish Him!: Young Arn is told to end the duel with Emund Ulvbane in this manner. He refuses to kill an already defeated enemy. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: At one point, Arn is made to joust against an inexperienced young knight of Richard Lionheart's called Wilfred of Ivanhoe | |
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Death by Childbirth | |
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Death by Childbirth: Narrowly averted; Mother Rikissa starves the pregnant Cecilia Rosa and has her working in the fields throughout her pregnancy until her labor starts. | |
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Rightful King Returns | |
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Rightful King Returns: Subverted. Eskil informs Harald that as Oystein Moyla's son, he could make a claim to the throne of Norway and attempt to seize it from the current king, his father's comrade-in-arms Sverre. Harald thinks about it, but eventually decides against it and goes to Norway with a letter of safe conduct. Sverre is overjoyed to have his old friend's son back, and Harald eventually becomes one of Sverre's most trusted advisors. | |
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Very Loosely Based on a True Story | |
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Very Loosely Based on a True Story: In-universe. Eskil mentions that he has heard of Arn's exploits in the Holy Land, like when he led 20000 Knights Templar in a charge against 100000 Saracens at the Mountain of Pigs ("Grisarnas Berg" in Swedish). When Arn has stopped laughing, he explains that the battle stood at Mont Gisard, and that he led 400 Templars against 5000 Saracens. Eskil shrugs and says that the Broad Strokes were true enough, and that there's nothing wrong with tweaking the truth to make a better story. | |
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O.O.C. Is Serious Business | |
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O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Birger Brosa is... less than pleased when Arn has the indecency to not only come home from the Holy Land, but to insist on marrying Cecilia instead of allowing himself and her to be slotted into his political plans. The day is remembered as the Great Noise, because it is the only time in living memory when the famously soft-spoken Birger, whose Perpetual Smiler nature won him the nickname "Brosa", actually yelled. | |
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One-Steve Limit | |
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One-Steve Limit: Averted and played with; Cecilia Algotsdotter and Cecilia Ulfsdotter are lay sisters as the same time, and are told apart by nicknaming them after their hair colors; red-haired Cecilia Rosa and blonde Cecilia Blanka. They keep these nicknames for the rest of their lives. Also a few instances of combinations of aversion of it and and Dead Guy Junior; Arn and Cecilia Rosa's son is named Magnus, although Old Sir Magnus is not yet dead when he's born, and there's the case of a number of kings named Knut and Erik. | |
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You Killed My Father | |
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You Killed My Father: Two subversions: Inverted when Erik Knutsson meets up with King Sverker Karlsson, after the battle of Lena. A source of friction between Cecilia Rosa and her friend Ulvhilde. Cecilia is betrothed to Arn, who was responsible for maiming (and, Ulvhilde believes, killing) her father, Emund Wolfbane. When Arn comes home, he gets to explain; when he maimed Emund he was a sixteen-year-old boy answering an insult to his family while trying to keep everyone involved, including Emund, alive, and taking Emund's sword-hand was the best he could do. When it came to the killing of Emund, a completely separate incident, his friends were involved, and Arn was at the crime scene but was purposefully kept out of the actual killing and sent home before Emund died. | |
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