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Title: Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Cincinnati : Jones
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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hy grew rapidly in all theScandinavian countries. Many of theleading jarls and smaa-kongar sought toassociate themselves with HowtheScandi-the kings of Upsala. In -^S^T^eso doing they acted after strong.the manner of men. They wished to bestrong by attaching themselves to a 72 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. stronger. Moreover, the Great Thingcontinued its functions and assumedothers. It became more and more theparliamentary assembly of all vSweden.Its primitive character gave place toregular political methods, and in themidst of it the rights of freemen wereacknowledged as against the rights ofthe smaa-kongar. Interesting in the highest degree is willing to venture on. But we must re-member that Wodin was only semi-divine, the other half being human-heroic. Thus was bridged the chasmbetween the things on high and thethings of this Middle Earth. In the earliest days Sweden appearsby no means to have been so widely ex-tended a country as at present. Itswidest, most fruitful, and richest region
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VIEW IN UPSAL. the old Ynglino;a Saga, which containsthe first expressions of Myth and tradi- tion of the vSwedisliself-consciousuess, Ynfflinga Saga. ,■> i^ j_ r i • i r ^ the first formal ideas oi the nation respecting itself. Accordingto this venerable legend the first kingsof Upsala were the Ynglingar, whosefountain head was called Yngve Frey,and he was the grandson of Wodin.This brings the dynasty of the gods andthe dynasty of men into closer unionthan the mythologists have usually been was vScania, a Gothic state w^hich hadvibrated in its political attachment be-tween vSweden and Den- The Scanians 1 rn J.1 -\ 4.*^ ^ ,,., vibrate between mark. To the latter coun- ti,e swedes andtry, in the ninth century, it the Danes,was annexed by King Crunthrun. Itappears, however, that the annexationwas never accepted as valid, at least notin whole. For hardly a half centurypassed without some disturbance be-tween Denmark and Sweden, in whichthe validity of the Scanian dependency KALEVI

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