Capitals of the Northlands: Tales of Ten CitiesHannah, Ian C.
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Capitals of the Northlands: Tales of Ten Cities
Hannah, Ian C.
Capitals (Cities); Russia -- Description and travel; Scandinavia -- Description and travel
[93] _Story of the Ynglings_, Chs. X. & IX.
[94] _Story of the Ynglings_, Chs. XII. & XIII.
[95] _ib._, Ch. XL.
[96] _Story of the Ynglings_, Ch. LXXVI.
[97] _Preface to the Heimskringla._ Presumably there was a transition
period.
[98] _The Civilisation of Sweden in Heathen Times_, by Oscar Montelius.
Englished by Rev. F. H. Woods, 1888.
[99] There is a ghost story about the dead men in an Icelandic howe in
the _Tale of Thorstan Oxfoot_. Printed in _Origines Islandicæ_. Vol.
II., p. 585.
[100] _Story of the Ynglings_, Ch. XIV.
[101] _Story of the Ynglings_, Ch. XVIII.
[102] This is certainly not the real derivation of the term. Morris and
Magnússon suggest that it may be "land of ten hundreds." Snorri was
wrong in his belief that it meant "Tithe-land."
[103] _Story of the Ynglings_, Ch. XXIX.
[104] However, Horace Marryat, _One Year in Sweden_, 1862, tells us
that when in 1803 Hultersta Church was destroyed there were discovered
"two pagan altars of sacrifice, fitted with chimney-pipes, still
containing ashes and bones of animals, bricked up when the building was
adapted to Christian worship."
[105] _Monumenta Hist. Vet. Upsaliæ_, 1709, by E. Benzelius.
[106] Within there are interesting fittings both of mediæval and
Renaissance date; including a carved reredos of the thirteenth century.
There are the graves of Fornelius, chaplain to Gustavus Adolphus and
of another pastor, named Celsius, who died in 1679. His grandson, of
thermometer fame, is commemorated by a tablet.
[107] There are women students as well as men.
[108] The present building is a little later than his time, an
interesting early pointed structure, partly of brick and partly of
granite. Saddle roof tower, nave and aisles of five bays with transepts
small and low. Brick arches and piers are partly cut into mouldings and
clustered shafts, while angel paintings over the rib-vaulted roof have
been restored with care.
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