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THE NATIONAL CHURCH OF SWEDEN.
I.
Introductory.—The Country and its Inhabitants in
the Heathen Period up to 1000 a.d.
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| § 1.—Object of these Lectures: To promote brotherly
Intercourse between the Anglican Communion and the Swedish Church and people | 3 |
| § 2.—Natural Features of the Country—Turned
towards the East—Lakes and Forests—Natural division between Svealand and Gothland | 4 |
| § 3.—The Inhabitants—The Stone Age up to 1500 b.c.
—The Country Originally Settled from the South-West and South—Traces of a cult of the Spirits of the Dead | 8 |
| § 4.—The Bronze Age (1500 b.c.—500 b.c.)
—Intercourse with the East and South-East Begins —Rock-gravings—Worship of the Nature Gods or Vanir—Niord and Frö or Frey—Ullr or Ull | 10 |
| § 5.—The Iron Age (500 b.c.—1000 a.d.)—First or
pre-Roman Period 500 b.c. to about the Christian Era—The Age of Thor and the Hammer | 18 |
| § 6.—Second Period of the Iron Age (50 b.c.—400
a.d.)—The Age of Gothic Immigration and Migration—Suiones in Sweden before the Goths —“Queen-land”—Finnish martial women —Upward movement of the tribes—Goths come into Sweden about 100 a.d. through Gotland and Öland—Silver coins of the Western Empire (29 b.c.—235 a.d.)—Wonderful achievements of the South-faring Goths from the Vistula—Their fatal gift of Fifth Century Gold from the Eastern Empire—Introduction of Runes and the Worship | |
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