It was released to cinemas in Sweden on 22 August [1] and is the sequel to the film Arn β The Knight Templar , but both films were combined into a single cut for the English release on DVD in The plot of the film loosely follows the book of the same name β the third volume of the Crusades trilogy , spanning the period of about to Arn is the commander of a Templar garrison in Gaza.
He is commanded to join a Templar force intercepting the army of Saladin. Arn is wounded but Saladin recognizes him and saves Arn from execution.
Arn wakes in Damascus , his wounds treated; Saladin sends him home with his friendship as he prepares to take Jerusalem. Cecilia is finally allowed to leave the monastery where she has done penance for twenty years, meeting her son Magnus for the first time. She soon hears of the fall of Jerusalem and the destruction of the Templars and believing Arn dead decides to become a nun for the rest of her life, being offered the post of Abbess by the Folkung clan.
Arn meets her as she is just about to enter the convent, and they marry at last, building an estate, Forsvik, where Arn has gathered craftsmen from all over Europe and the Holy Land. Arn is introduced to his son Magnus, born in his absence; after a little time a daughter named Alde is born, and Forsvik grows rapidly.
Arn takes young men and boys to become knights-in-training. Six years later King Canute I of Sweden dies, leaving children as heirs. King Sverker II retakes the crown with Danish help and attempts to murder the sons of Canute, prevented by the intercession of a Folkung who has tricked Sverker into thinking he was a double agent.
