Arn Magnusson is the main character in the
Crusades trilogy written in Swedish by author and journalist
Jan Guillou. This fictional Swedish character from the Middle Ages is forced to become a Knight Templar. The series is an account of the life of Arn Magnusson, who becomes a witness as well as a catalyst to many important historical events, both in his homeland of Sweden and in the crusades against the Middle East. How much fact is there in the fiction?
