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Adam of Bremen afterwards ancient archbishop arms army Axel Axel Oxenstierna Baner battle Birger bishop Brahe brother called Calmar castle caused chancellor Charles Christian Christina church clergy command council councillors court crown Danes Danish death declared Denmark diet duke elector emperor enemy Eric's Ericson estates father fiefs Finland Folkungers forest German Gothland Goths Gustavus Adolphus Hallenberg hand heathen hereditary HISTORY hundred inhabitants John king Eric king's kingdom land Lapps letter Livonia lords Lubeck Magnus Magnus Ladulas majesty March ment nobility nobles Norrland Norway obliged Odin Olave Oxenstierna Palmsk parish peace peasants persons Peter Brahe Poland Pomerania prince provinces realm realm of Sweden received reign royal Russian Saga Saxony says Sigismund Smaland sovereign Stenkil Steno Stockholm Sturé Suithiod Sweden Swedish throne Thuré tion Tiundaland Torstenson town troops Upland Upsala Vasa Vermeland Wallenstein West-Gothland Westeras Wrangel Ynglingasaga
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Page 266 - Monro can hardly find words to express his admiration of the King on this his first march immediately under his orders. " He did not like so well of an officer that was not as capable to understand his directions, as he was ready in giving them ; nevertheless he would not suffer an officer to part from him, till he found he was understood by the receiver of the order. Such a general would I gladly serve, but such a general I shall hardly see, whose custom was to be the first and last in danger himself,...
Page 7 - For that reason they would not burn his body, but called him the god of the world, and sacrificed to him for peace and the blessings of the year.
Page 1 - The recollections which Scandinavia has to add to those of the Germanic race are yet the most antique in character and comparatively the most original. They offer the completest remaining example of a social state existing previously to the reception of influences from. Rome, and in duration stretching onward so as to come within the sphere of historical light.
Page 44 - Eric. Against the heathens of Finland, whose piracies harassed the Swedish coast, he undertook a crusade, and by introducing Christianity, as also probably by transplanting Swedish colonists thither, he laid the foundation of the connection which so long subsisted between Sweden and that country. St.
Page 144 - Ericson Lejonhufvud interrupted him by saying, " All that you talk is in vain, for our lord heareth no more." Thereupon the priest bent down to the ear of the dying man and said, " If thou believe in Jesus Christ, and hear my voice, give us some sign thereof.
Page 166 - Seek before all," he writes to John Herbest, the queen's court-chaplain, " that he may obtain a church wherein to preach. Let him avoid offence; let him extol faith to heaven, and depreciate works without faith, preaching Christ as the only mediator, and his cross as the only means of salvation ; thereupon let him show that nothing else has been preached in the papacy.
Page 287 - Never has one man's death made a deeper impression throughout a whole quarter of the world. Wheresoever his name had been heard, a ray of hope for the oppressed had penetrated. Even the Greek, at its sound, dreamed of freedom ; and prayers for the success of the Swedish monarch's arms were sent up at the Holy Sepulchre. What, then, must he not have been for the partners of his faith ? We may conceive this ; nay, rather, it is no longer possible to do so.
Page 209 - Ille jaciet!" (He will do it!) Such men verily there are, full of the hereafter, who, with or without their own will and intent, carry the nations onward at their side. Except his father, no man before him exercised so deep an influence on the Swedish people. More than a hundred years passed away, and a like personal influence was still reigning upon the throne of Sweden. The nation, hard to move save for immediate self-defence, was borne along, unwilling and yet admiring, repugnant yet loving; as...
Page 222 - Sweden to this day appertains solely to the king, is thus shown to have formerly included a somewhat extensive right of taxation. Over the grave of Gustavus Adolphus it was said : " He received his kingdom with two empty hands, yet deprived no man of his own by violence ; but what the necessities of the realm required, that did he let his people know on their days of free assemblage, that they might consider the matter, and give tribute to the crown according to its need...
Page 144 - Once confessed, so persist, or a hundred times repeated " but his trembling hand had not power to finish the sentence. The confessor continued his exhortations, till, as life was flying, Steno Ericson Lejonhufond interrupted him by saying, " All that you talk is in vain, for our lord heareth no more.