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CHAPTER V.
Skarhult- Image of the Trinity - Psalm of Gustaf Adolf - Phantom
huntsmen - The ghost and the lady châtelaine - Dalby Kloster—
The river sprite and the bishop - Tomb of Harald Hein
CHAPTER VI.
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Löberöd - Macadam in Sweden - Snapphanarna the guerillas of Skåne
Origin of the De la Gardies-Love tale of Ebba Brahe and the
great Gustavus Magnus, the gunstling of Queen Christina
Charles XII.'s rocking-horse - Genealogy of Erik XIV.
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CHAPTER VII.
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Christianstad-Black stork, the bishop- Helge-Sjön - Baroness de
Staël-Legend of the horn and pipe of Trolle-Ljungby - The fat
abbot-Charles XI. in the chimney - Widtsköfle - Henrik Brahe
and the enchanted wheel- Barnekow's Moss-Soldiers at evensong
-Riotous navvies
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CHAPTER VIII.
Banketröja,
Wa, or the Convent of Sorrow - Hällristningar, or picture-writing, at
Kivik - Söfdeborg- -Portraits of Philip and Aurora Königsmark-
The Swedish army Little Mats the Snappharne
the peasants' Dustcoat - Öfveds-Kloster - Christmas fishing - Herd
of white deer - Ystad Roger McLean Vision of Count Brahe-
Marsvinsholm · Wedding superstitions Queen Sophia and the
Kettle-mender
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CHAPTER IX.
Landskrona-The white worm of the witches - Prisoners in Sweden
- The Swedish Diogenes - Uranienborg - Urban the rye-saint-
- Knutstorp, the birthplace of Tycho Brahe- Altarpiece of Otto
Brahe..
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CHAPTER X.
Drog jeg of Christian IV. — The village of Rous — Sven Fielding
Helsingborg and its lazy natives - Anders Bille and the English
minister John Innes the Scotchman-Christian III. and his table-
cloths - St. Dunstan's tin potten - Fire-clay works at Hoganäs-
Night and Day..
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CHAPTER XI.
Erik's challenge to Robert Dudley-
Christina Gyllenstjerna, heroine
of the Blood-bath Putta the witch - The Kullaman consulted by
Waldemar Seier-Trolles of Trollenäs - Engelholm packed off to
Landskrona
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CHAPTER XII.
Swedish Davy's locker - Legend of Axil's chapel - Halmstad — The
Lady of Falkenberg - Burning witch-karl - Danmark's Lilya, where
the three kings met- - Arrival at Göteborg
CHAPTER XIII.
149
Wik, land of the Vikings-Göteborg founded by Gustaf Adolf Story
of Count Wasaborg - Gustaf III.'s letter to his poor cousin — Isle
of Saro-Youthful volunteers - The Viking's grave and eagle's
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nest
CHAPTER XIV.
Marstrand Castle - The "manet," or sea-nettle cure- - Jonathan Old-
buck and the Giant's Pots-The "naked maiden"- Thord Bonde,
and Erik the Holy The Wave'
Paternoster Rocks
CHAPTER XV.
169
-Othorno of Ossian - Fingal and proud Starnö -
Alf and the Scots - The burying-place of Thor - Queen Ulrika's
gold cradle - St. Olaf's voyage - Blåkulla, the Gormaal of Ossian
-The fair Walborg - Lysekil - Legend of the last priest of
Wiken ..
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CHAPTER XVI.
Norway-The rod of Good Friday - Frederikshald, the death-place
of Charles XII. - Opening of his coffin-Opinion of the learned
Everlasting, stained by the king's blood-Fall of the Dal
CHAPTER XVII.
188
Midsommars Waka - The Neck and his pupils - Charles XII. and the
hällristningar - Strömstad Jogging seats- Ship's forms - Old
Viking navy - The Domaring, or judgment-seat
CHAPTER XVIII.
Green mud-baths of Grebbestad - King Walbret, or the Scotch descent
upon Wik-Triangular grave of Kuse - Vikings buried in white
clothes The Knight's Leap - Origin of bridesmen - King Wal-
bret's grave Black Death-Blue cat Hällristningar - Rane
and the Queen of Hudt-Sten of Svarteborg-Wolves of Qvis-
tröm
CHAPTER XIX.
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Dutch founded city of Uddevalla - Fossils — Baths of Gustafsberg
Meetings of Kongelf- Fragment of the true cross; paid by tithes
to the clergy Taking of the city - Bohus castle- Legend of the
foundation - A peasant funeral
CHAPTER XX.
218
Ant-baths Kong Gösta's courtship - Falls of Trollhättan The
Robbers' cave- Custom of lying in straw on Christmas Eve-Skalds
of Odin-Poor Snip the tailor- The tribe of the Huns - Tradition
of King Ane-Thor's beetle - Herb Paris, a plant of ill-omen
Wallhall and the family clubs - Last of the bears
CHAPTER XXI.
227
Ladies of the Lake - The Dalbo hound - Leckö Slott - The Bishop of
History of the "Reduction"-Princess Maria Euphrosyne's
Salle of the Thirty Years' War Generals
Mercy
letter
CHAPTER XXII.
236
Viking Helle and the lady of Wettern- Baron Fuchs and the gipsy
English Baron Robeck Kinne Kulle-Sprites of the mountain
and church bells The enchanted garden - The Rune Thorn-
Jungfru Maria's flowers - Laws of West Götland - First painted on
panels, and sung by the Lagmen - Husaby - Legend of St. Sigfrid
Archbishop of York — The abbot and the farmer's wife — The bride's
bath
Lidköping The Bell War Cathedral tower of Skara The
Folkungar Tournament of the Kettle-mender · Domkyrka -
Tomb of Erik Soop, the saviour of Gustaf Adolf- Bishop Brynolf
and his Rhyming Chronicle'- His English predecessors - Beggars
unknown in early times in Sweden - English sweating sickness -
Journal of Charles XI. - Its pious conclusion
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CHAPTER XXIV.
Phantom castle of King Inge - Bishop Ofeg and the gold-mine- The
heathen bell and her baptised sisters-Gudhem Kloster-The Black
Death-Warnhem Kloster, and its royal tombs - Legend of Ansel-
mo the hermit - Birger Jarl in missionary costume Charles XII.'s
recruiting sergeant - Oglanda, the road to Odin's Isle Sköfde and
St. Elin's Well-English names of Scandinavian origin.. PAGE 270
CHAPTER XXV.
Wadstena Slott- Story of Fröken Cecilia - Prince Erik's letters -
Imprisonment of the count - Letters of Gustaf Wasa - Queen Eliza-
beth godmother to Cecilia's child - Duke Magnus promised the
hand of Mary Stuart - His madness-Story of the mermaid..
CHAPTER XXVI.
281
Wadstena lace-Legend of St. Brita Rod won't whip her Bishop
Thynne Queen Margaret kisses the dirty monk The rich Bo
Johnsson - The Abbess Anne and Duke John - Tombs of Philippa
of Lancaster, and of Duke Magnus - Portrait of St. Brita - Sken-
ninge, county of the Douglas family- Ingrid the Wise Wreta
Kloster Bloody heart of the Douglas
CHAPTER XXVII.
292
Linköping and her English bishops · Nicholas Breakspear holds a
diet-Cathedral - Monument of Thure Bjielke Blood-bath of
Linköping - Letter of Christina Banér - Gustaf Adolf as a boy -
Sigismund and his Scots lose the day - Abraham Brahe and the
English minister
310
CHAPTER XXVIII.
Bishop Brask's housekeeping book-"Heathen hair" of an infant-
Norrköping the Swedish Bradford - William of Sabine's letter to the
pope-Charles XII. and his dog Pompe-Legend of St. Ragnild
at Söderköping - Marriage of Siri Bruhe -The Key-maid of Mary
-Tragedy of Nyköping · Elopement of Malin Sture-Arrival at
Stockholm .. 322
CHAPTER XXIX.
Mosebacke, or the Mountain of Moses- Legends of old Stockholm -
The palace-Erik in the Eskil chamber- The pie and the crow -
Gustaf Wasa's last adieu - His death and funeral - Burning of the
- The Storkyrka - Helmet of St. Olaf-St. George and the
slott
Dragon
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CHAPTER XXX.
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- The
Entry of Nils Sture-
Garden of the Grand Governor
Old Stockholm-High seats in church The ordeal of fire
Great Market-Story of the Blood-bath
Origin of Göran Pehrson
Statue of Gustaf III...
CHAPTER XXXI.
357
Gustaf III. His birth-Ill-temper and never-ending colics of the
queen-mother-His education and forced marriage - Royal fêtes
and their difficulties - Abuse of the princess his wife Intrigues
against her Death of Frederik Adolf - Voyage of queen-mother
to Germany - Birth of the crown prince and scandalous stories ——
Gustaf's love for Madame Douriez - The Empress Catherine in
déshabille
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CHAPTER XXXII.
King
Royal menagerie Library of Stockholm-Codex Aureus
Erik's book-The Devil's Bible - National picture gallery - Statue
of Endymion - Gustaf III. and the Countess d'Egmont - The Deer
Park Bellman the Swedish Anacreon The Rådhus - Town
stones and Spanish violin - Riddarhus
CHAPTER XXXIII.
388
The Riddarhus- The freeman and the slave- The Frälse - Parch-
ment nobility exempt from taxation-Swedish names- -The "Ron-
flant" period - Christina ennobles her lady's-maid and tailor
Gustaf and the clerk - The Scotch nobles - Conspiracy of Carl de
Mornay- His execution — Keith ennobled in Sweden - History of
Jacob Neafve-Killed by the revolted peasants-Gustaf Adolf and
the green brigade
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