Boedil Thurgotsdatter

Boedil was the daughter of the Danish Earl Thurgot Fagerskind and Thorgunna and the sister of Svend Thrugotsen.

Her grandfather, called Galicieulv in the Knytlinga Saga, was famous as a pilgrim to Santiago de Compostela in Spain.

She is believed to have been married to Eric before 1086, as she and her husband lived in exile in the Swedish court during the reign of King Olaf of Denmark (1086–1095).

Eric became sick and died of fever in Paphos in 1103, but Bodil continued on the pilgrimage and managed to reach Jerusalem later that year.

[clarification needed] This history revision can be seen as a sign of the new law which separated the status of children born in and out of wedlock.