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According to legend, Lalli slew Bishop Henry of Finland with an axe on the ice of Lake Köyliönjärvi in Köyliö.

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Lalli

12th-century apocryphal Finnish person

Lalli is an apocryphal character from Finnish history. According to the legend, he killed Bishop Henry on the ice of Köyliönjärvi on 20 January 1156.
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Henry (bishop of Finland)

Bishop of Finland (died 1156)

Henry was a medieval English clergyman. He came to Sweden with Cardinal Nicholas Breakspeare in 1153 and was most likely designated to be the new Archbishop of Uppsala, but the independent church province of Sweden could only be established in 1164 after the civil war, and Henry…
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Köyliö

Former municipality in Satakunta, Finland

Köyliö is a former municipality of Finland. It was merged to the municipality of Säkylä on 1 January 2016.
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