Chapter I
Departure from Copenhagen — The Oresund — Malmohus-lan — Story of Gefion — Skane, Sweden's great granary — Gille of St. Knud — The " milled '•' maiden — The six toads and the skeletons — Ordinances of Sigbrit — The mummy hand — Old Malmbhus — Bothwell's chamber — His life in Malmo Page 1
Chapter II
Skanor and Falsterbo — Jiittekasts, or the missiles of the giants — Destruction of the cities by sand — Prince Magnus's hog — Skeff the Englishman — Linnæus at Falsterbo — Castle of Torup — Ghost of the lady Gjurwell — The condemned lake 21
Chapter III
' Lying Chronicle ' — The London of the Goths — Students' Carnival — o The Viking Ake — St. Walborg's fires — Three English bishops of Lund ' — Splendour and downfall of the church — Holger Rosenkrantz and the beaten bishop — Foundation of the university . . . . 34
Chapter IV
Lund — Cathedral of St. Lawrence — Legend of Finn the Giant — The crypt — Marriage of Queen Philippa — Shift of St. Margaret — The library — Letters of James I. — Love-letters of Sophia-Dorothea and Konigsmark — Skull of Descartes — Charles XII. and his horse Brandklipparen 42 VOL. I. b CONTENTS OF VOL. I.
Chapter V
Skarbult — Image of the Trinity — Psalm of Gustaf Adolf— Phantom huntsmen — The ghost and the lady chatelaine — Dalby Kloster — The river sprite and the bishop — Tomb of Harald Hein . . Page 57
Chapter VI
Loberod — Macadam in Sweden — Snapphanarna the guerillas of Skane — Origin of the De la Gardies — Love tale of Ebba Brahe and the great Gustavus — Magnus, the gnnstling of Queen Christina — Charles XII.'s rocking-horse — Genealogy of Erik XIV 65
Chapter VII
Christianstad — Black stork, the bishop — Helge-Sjon — Baroness de Stael — Legend of the horn and pipe of Trolle-Ljungby — The fat abbot — Charles XI. in the chimney — Widtskofle — Henrik Brahe and the enchanted wheel — Bamekow's Moss — Soldiers at evensong — Riotous navvies 74
Chapter VIII
Wa, or the Convent of Sorrow — Hallristningar, or picture-writing, at Kivik — Sofdeborg — Portraits of Philip and Aurora Konigsmark — The Swedish army — Little Mats the Snappbarne — Banketroja, the peasants' Dustcoat — Ofveds-Kloster — Cshristmas fishing — Herd of white deer — Ystad — Roger M'Lean — Vision of Count Brahe — Marsvinsholm — Wedding superstitions — Queen Sophia and the Kettle-mender 91
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 — Altai-piece of Otto Brahe 114
Chapter X
Drog jeg of Cliristian 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 tablecloths — St. Dunstan's tin potten — Fire-clay works at Hoganas — Night and Day V
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 Trollenas — Engelholm packed off to Landskrona Page 138
Chapter XII
Swedish Davy's locker — Legend of Axil's chapel — Halmstad — The Lady of Falkenberg — Burning w*itch-karl — Dantoark's Lilya, where the three kings met — Arrival at Goteborg 149
Chapter XIII
Wik, land of the Vikings — Goteborg founded by Gustaf Adolf — Story of Count Wasaborg — Gustaf IH.'s letter to his poor cousin — Isle of Saro — Youthful volunteers — The Viking's grave and eagle's nest .. 157
Chapter XIV
Marstrand Castle — The "manet," or sea-nettle cure — Jonathan Oldbuck and the Giant's Pots — The " naked maiden " — Thord Bonde, and Erik the Holy — ' The Wave ' 169
Chapter XV
Paternoster Rocks — Othorno of Ossian — Fingal and proud Starno — Als and the Scots — The buiying-place of Thor — Queen Ulrika 's gold cradle — St. Olaf s voyage — Blakulla, the Gormaal of Ossian — The fair Walborg — Lysekil — Legend of the last priest of Wiken 179
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 . . 188
Chapter XVII
Midsommars Waka — The Neck and his pupils — Charles XII. and the hallristningar — Stromstad — Jogging seats — Ship's forms — Old Viking navy — The Domaring, or judgment-seat VI CONTENTS OF VOL. I.
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 Walbret's grave — Black Death — Blue cat — Hallristningar — Pane and the Queen of Hudt — Sten of Svarteborg — Wolves of Qvistrom Page 203
Chapter XIX
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 218
Chapter XX
Ant-baths — Kong Gosta's courtship — Falls of Trollhattan — 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 227
Chapter XXI
Ladies of the Lake — The Dalbo hound — Lecko Slott — The Bishop of Mercy — History of the " Reduction " — Princess Maria Euphrosyne's letter — Salle of the Thirty Years' War Generals 236
Chapter XXII
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 Gotland ■ — 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 246
Chapter XXIII
Lidkoping — 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
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 Anselmo the hermit — Birger Jarl in missionary costume — Charles XII.'s recruiting sergeant — Oglanda, the road to Odin's Isle ■ — Skofde and St. Elin's Well — English names of Scandinavian origin . . Page 270
Chapter XXV
Wadstena Slott — Story of Frijken Cecilia — Prince Erik's letters — Imprisonment of the count — Letters of Gustaf Wasa — Queen Elizabeth godmother to Cecilia's child — Duke Magnus promised the hand of Mary Stuart — His madness — Story of the mermaid . . 281
Chapter XXVI
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 — Skenninge, county of the Douglas family — Ingrid the Wise — Wreta Kloster — Bloody heart of the Douglas 292
Chapter XXVII
Linkoping and her English bishops — Nicholas Breakspear holds a diet — Cathedral — Monument of Thure Bjielke — Blood-bath of Linkoping — Letter of Christina Bane'r — 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 — Norrkoping the Swedish Bradford — William of Sabine's letter to the pope — Charles XII. and his dog Pompe — Legend of St. Ragnild at Soderkoping — Marriage of Siri Brahe — The Key-maid of Mary — Tragedy of Nykoping — Elopement of Malin Sture — Arrival at Stockholm
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 funeial — Burning of the slott — The Storkyrka — Helmet of St. Olaf— St. George and the Dragon Page 339
Chapter XXX
Old Stockholm — High seats in church — The ordeal of fire — The Great Market — Story of the Blood-bath — Entry of Nils Sture — Origin of Goran Pehrson — Garden of the Grand Governor — Statue of Gustaf IH 357
Chapter XXXI
Gustaf HI. — His birth — Ill-temper and never-ending colics of the queen-mother — His education and forced marriage — Royal fetes 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 deshabille 366
Chapter XXXII
Royal menagerie — Library of Stockholm — Codex Aureus — King 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 Radhus — Town stones and Spanish violin — Riddarhus 388
Chapter XXXIII
The Riddarhus — The freeman and the slave — The Fralse — Parchment nobility exempt from taxation — Swedish names — The " Ronflant " 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
Chapter XXXIV
Isle of Knights — Funeral of Gustaf Adolf — Chapel of the Carolines — Charles X.'s funeral and Scotch attendants — Sarcophagus of Bernadotte — Swedish Order of Knighthood — Sir Charles and his " grelots " — Birger Jarl's statue — Stare's chapel — Story of Pelarbaeken — Swedenborg and his twelve spirits — Northern Museum — Viking interred in his " Drake " — Runic inscriptions — Cecilia's autograph — English St. Botvid Page 423
Chapter XXXV
Tragic festivities — Prince Oscar's palace — Story of the Abbess of Quedlinburg — ■ Stage in Sweden — The Opera-house — Etiquette of the Swedish court — Gustavus " the Charmer " — Writers of his day — The masked ball — Warning letter — Assassination of the king 445
Chapter XXXVI
Church of St. Clara and the Princess Richissa — Museum of Natural History — Battle of Brunkeberg — The Kliidskammar — Oriental headpiece of Erik the Holy — Gustaf Wasa's economy — Trousseau of his daughter Catherine — Relics of Gustaf Adolf — Queen Maria Eleanora founds the order of the Crowned Heart — Garments of Charles XII. — Masquerade dress of Gustavus III. — Legend of De la Gardie — Blasius Dundee the Scotchman 457
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