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Lalli is an apocryphal character from Finnish history and one of the most well-known figures in Finnish medieval legend.
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Bishop Henry killed by Lalli, painting by Albert Edelfelt (1877)
About this person
Lalli is an apocryphal character from Finnish history and one of the most well-known figures in Finnish medieval legend. According to tradition, he was a prosperous yeoman farmer who killed Bishop Henry, who was spreading Christianity to then pagan Finland, on the ice of lake Köyliönjärvi on 20 January in the late 1150s.
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deceased
Dates
Lived 1100 to 1160 · aged 60
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