Excerpt from Sweden IN one of the most beautiful and romantic districts of Sweden there is one of the oldest copper - mines in' the world. It is situated at Falun in Dalecarlia. About 400 years ago a young man might have been seen looking into the open mine He was full of thought and anxiety, for was not his country in the hands of the Danish king-christian II., a cruel tyrant and was not he himself being pursued and driven to seek concealment, as he was a direct descendant of the ancient Kings of Sweden 3 He had suffered ...
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Excerpt from Sweden IN one of the most beautiful and romantic districts of Sweden there is one of the oldest copper - mines in' the world. It is situated at Falun in Dalecarlia. About 400 years ago a young man might have been seen looking into the open mine He was full of thought and anxiety, for was not his country in the hands of the Danish king-christian II., a cruel tyrant and was not he himself being pursued and driven to seek concealment, as he was a direct descendant of the ancient Kings of Sweden 3 He had suffered much, but had never given up hope. He stood there thinking of his country's down trodden condition, hopeful, trustful, and resolute, resolving to deliver his native land from the foreign yoke. He remembered how the miners had fought in days of old for their country. He would rouse them so that they would do it again. He donned the peasant costume, and became as one of themselves. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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