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Duke Abel's grave
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May 20, 2020
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However, the throne did not last long for Abel. He was killed two years later. According to legend, he is now haunted in the cathedral church of Schleswig.
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In 1250 Abel asked his elder brother Kong Erik IV to go to his residence in Schleswig, ostensibly for talks of reconciliation, in order to negotiate a settlement, since Erik IV had conquered large parts of the Sydjysk (Southern Jutland) duchy. In the ferry town of Missunde, he allegedly had the king murdered on a boat by beating off his head and sinking his body in the Schlei.
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