History of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway, Vol. 1 (of 2) — John Shaqi
History of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway, Vol. 1 (of 2)Dunham, S. A. (Samuel Astley)
History
History of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway, Vol. 1 (of 2)
Dunham, S. A. (Samuel Astley)
Scandinavia -- History
623–630. Asa, the wicked Daughter of Ingiald, 139
persuades her Husband, the King of
Scania, to murder his Brother, Halfdan
III., King of Zealand; joins in the
Destruction of her Husband; flees to
Upsal; Ivar Vidfadme, to revenge the
Murder of his Father, invades Swionia;
Ingiald, by the Advice of his
Daughter, in despair, burns her, his
Guests, the House, and himself, and is
succeeded by _Ivar Vidfadme_, while
Olaf _Trætelia_, the Son Ingiald, the
Last of the Ynglings, retires to the
Desert Lands North and West of the
Vener Lake, and by clearing them,
founds the State of Vermeland; he is
the Ancestor of Harald Harfager
Reflections on the Crimes and 140
Misfortunes of the Ynglings; Sweden
henceforth under the Sway of the
Skioldungs, also of Odin’s Race
The Goths and Swiones always under 141
different Kings; the more powerful
Monarch always called King of the
Goths; the Kings of all the Provinces,
except Jutland, confounded
Confused Chronology of Northern 142
Historians
Gylfo, King of the Goths at the Period 143
of Odin’s Arrival in the North
The Swiar become the dominant Caste more 144
by the moral Influence of Odin and his
Successors than by Force; the
different Races in Scandinavia
probably from Asiatic Scythia
Cause of the rapid Progress of the 145
Odinic Religion; the moral Influence
of the Pontiff Sovereigns often
resisted by the Gothic Kings, who
frequently slew and dethroned them
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