CHARLES MORRIS
Scandinavian
J.B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY PHILADELPHIA AND LONDON
CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
SCANDINAVIAN. (2)
HOW KING ROLF WON HIS BRIDE .
RAGNAR LODBROK AND HIS WIVES AND SONS .
HAROLD FAIR-HAIRED FOUNDS THE KINGDOM OF NORWAY .
GORM THE OLD, DENMARK'S FIRST KING .
ERIK BLOOD-AXE AND EGIL THE ICELANDER .
THE SEA-KINGS AND THEIR DARING FEATS .
HAAKON THE GOOD AND THE SONS OF GUNHILD .
EARL HAAKON AND THE JOMSVIKINGS .
HOW OLAF, THE SLAVE-BOY, WON THE THRONE .
OLAF DETHRONES ODIN AND DIES A HERO .
OLAF THE SAINT AND HIS WORK FOR CHRIST .
CANUTE THE GREAT, KING OF SIX NATIONS .
MAGNUS THE GOOD AND HAROLD HARDRULER .
SVERRE, THE COOK'S SON, AND THE BIRCHLEGS .
THE FRIENDS AND FOES OF A BOY PRINCE .
KING VALDEMAR I. AND BISHOP ABSOLON .
THE FORTUNES AND MISFORTUNES OF VALDEMAR II .
BIRGER JARL AND THE CONQUEST OF FINLAND .
THE FIRST WAR BETWEEN SWEDEN AND RUSSIA .
THE CRIME AND PUNISHMENT OF KING BIRGER .
QUEEN MARGARET AND THE CALMAR UNION .
HOW SIR TORD FOUGHT FOR CHARLES OF SWEDEN .
STEN STURE'S GREAT VICTORY OVER THE DANES .
HOW THE DITMARSHERS KEPT THEIR FREEDOM .
THE BLOOD-BATH OF STOCKHOLM .
THE ADVENTURES OF GUSTAVUS VASA .
THE FALL OF CHRISTIAN II. THE TYRANT .
THE WEST GOTHLAND INSURRECTION .
THE LOVE AFFAIRS OF KING ERIK .
GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS ON THE FIELD OF LEIPSIC .
CHARLES X. AND THE INVASION OF DENMARK .
CHARLES XII. THE FIREBRAND OF SWEDEN .
THE ENGLISH INVADERS AND THE DANISH FLEET .
A FRENCH SOLDIER BECOMES KING OF SWEDEN AND NORWAY .
THE DISMEMBERMENT OF DENMARK .
BREAKING THE BOND BETWEEN NORWAY AND SWEDEN .