A.

Aagard, battle of, 191
Aase Sound, battle on, 211, 215
Abel, King of Denmark, his
quarrels with his brother Erik,
122; he causes him to be mur-
dered, 123; his false oath before
his accession, 124; his reign, ib.;
he is murdered by Hans of Pel-
vorm, ib.; his sons, 125
Absalon, Bishop, gift of lands to
his king, 92; more a sailor or
soldier than a churchman. 105;
he baptizes the heathen for two
days and two nights, 106; the
peasants on his estates rebel
against him, 107; he defeats
them, 108; his victory over
the Wends, 109; his learning
and labours. III; what he did
for the church, ib.; his death,
ib.

Adam, canon of Bremen, 91; his
Chronicle, ib.

Adela, Queen of Knud the Saint,
her flight to Bruges, 96
Adolf, Count of Holstein, III; de-
feated by Valdemar II., 113; his
victory over the Danes, 119
Adolf, Duke of Holstein, declines
the Danish crown, 192

Ælla, King of Northumbria, puts

Regner Lodbrog to death, 28;
he is tortured and killed, 29
Æsir, or lesser gods, 12, 76
Ætheling Alfred, his murder, 56
Æthelstan, King of England, his
foster child Hakon, 70

Agnes of Brandenburg, Queen
Regent of Denmark, 130, 131
Aix-la-Chapelle pillaged by Gorm, 40
Albert of Mecklenburg, his pa-
rentage, 141; he is chosen King
of Sweden, 165; his reign, ib.;
his weakness and wars, 166; Bo
Jonsson rules for him, ib.; new
wars and troubles, 167; his de-
feat by Queen Margaret, 167,
178; he is taken prisoner and
tortured, 178; his punishment for
insulting Margaret, ib.; his claims
to the Danish crown, 175, 177;
his release from prison, 179; he
dies in neglect and want, 167
Albert of Orlamunde, Duke of
North-Albingia, 114; his defeat
and imprisonment, 118

Albert the Younger, grandson of
Valdemar III., 175, 177
Albinensis, Cardinal Nicholas, his
mission to Sweden, 145
Alexander III. of Scotland, defeats
the Norwegians, 171

Alexius, Greek emperor, and Mag-
nus Barfod, 152

Alfred the Great, his history of
Orosius, 7; his victories over the
Vikingar, 29

Altmark, truce of, 277
Amager Island peopled by Flemish
gardeners, 218

Amber, its mythical origin, 9; beads
of, worn by Roman ladies, 8
America discovered by Northern ex-
plorers, 73, 84

Amlet, the story of, and Shake-
speare's "Hamlet," 22
Angeln, land of the Angles, 19
Angermannus, Abraham, Lutheran
primate of Sweden, 263, 264
Angles in Britain, 18, 19
Anglesea, subdued by Magnus Bar-
fod, 152

Anglo-Saxons in Britain, 21; they
retain their northern customs, ib.
Anna Catherine, first Queen of
Christian IV., 255

Anne, Queen of James I. of Eng-
land, 249, 250

Anscarius, the Apostle of the North,
goes to convert the Northmen,
34; his want of success, ib.; his
labours in Sweden, 35; he is
made Archbishop of Hamburgh,
ib.; what happens to him there,
ib.; his death, 36

Anund, King of Sweden, 84
Arcona taken by the Danes, 105; the
temple of Svanteveit is destroyed
by a stratagem, ib.; the demon
that the Danes said they saw, 106
Arnfast, Bishop of Aarhus, 127
Arnulf, King of Germany, his vic-
tory over the Danes, 43
Aryan races, 13

Asbjörn, brother of Svend, his
treachery, 90

Aschloo, camp of the Northern
rovers, 40, 41

Asgaard, home of the gods, 12

Autbert, monk, his mission

to

B.

Baal worshipped in the North, 5
Baglerne, or "the Croziers," 154
Banér, John, his victory at Witt-
stock, 286; his appearance before
Vienna, b.; his masterly retreat,
ib.; his death, ib.

Beltanes, midsummer-night dances,

Benedict, brother of Knud the
Saint, 95

Berangaria, second Queen of Val-
demar II., 118, 120, 121

Bernhard, Duke of Saxe Weimar,
enters the service of France, 286;
his death, ib.

Berserkers, why so called, 26
Berthelsen, Ivar, his imprisonment,
247

Birch Legs, or Birke-benerne, 154
Birger, King of Sweden, Torkel
Knudsson's influence for good,
160; his troubles after Torkel's
death, 161; he imprisons his
brothers and starves them to
death, 161, 162; anger of his
people, 162; he flees to Den-
mark, ib.; his son is beheaded,
ib.; his death, 163.

Birger Brosa, Jarl of the Swedes
and Goths, 149; his son chosen
King of Sweden, 150; his anger
at the choice, 150, 157; Ivar's
retorts, 157, 158; he submits,
158; his rule in Sweden ib.;
his laws in favour of women, ib.:
his death, ib.

Birke-benerne, or the "Birch Legs,"
154

Bjarne, Icelandic navigator, visits
Greenland, 86

Bjelke, Gunilla, second wife of
Johan III., 259; she conceals his
death, 261

Björn, Icelandic skald, 88

Björn, King of Sweden, sends for

Christian monks to convert his

people, 34; his reception of Ans-
carius, 35

Black Death, and the desolation it
caused, 85, 173; the "Partridge,"
173

Black Henry. See Henry, Duke of
Schwerin.

Blanka of Namur, Queen of Magnus

Smek, 163, 173; her death, 139
Bleking, Swedish province of Den-
mark, 23, 38; origin of its name,
23; laid waste by King Erik of
Sweden, 246

Blood-bath at Stockholm, 215, 216
Bo Jonsson, rules Sweden, 166; he
slays Karl Nilsson before the
altar, ib.; his death, ib.
Bondar race of kings in Sweden,
146, 147

Ponder, or peasants of Denmark, 104
Bornhöved, battle of, 119

Botilda, Queen of Denmark, her
death, 99

Braga, or "Good-health" horn, 61
Brahe, Tycho, the great astronomer,

241; his observatory, ib.; he is
obliged to seek safety abroad, 249;
he settles and dies at Prague, ib.
Brask, Bishop, his speech, 233, 234
Bravalla, battle of, 26, 27, 28
Breakspear, Nicholas, his mission to
Sweden, 145

Breitenfeld, battle of, 279
Bremen Chronicle, 91
Britain visited by Pytheas, 3; in-
vaded by the Northmen, 17; the
Vikingar expelled, 29; invaded
by Svend Tveskæg, 50
Brodersen, Abraham, his execution,
181

Bromsebro, treaty of, 254
Brunnbäk, battle of, 230

C.

Calmar Act of Union, 180, 217
Calmar war, 269, 273, 274

Casimir, Johan, appointed director-
general of Sweden, 278
Charlemagne, Charles I. of Ger-
many, his wars against the Saxons,
20; his tomb pillaged by the
Northmen, 40

Charles. See Karl.

Charles the Dane, Count of Flan-
ders. See Karl, son of Knud.
Charles the Fat, Emperor of Ger-
many, his foolish conduct and
cowardice, 40, 41, 43; his laws
in favour of the Danes, 41; de-
feated at Louvaine, 43
Chersonesus Cimbrica, 19, 22
Christian I., is chosen King of
Denmark, 192; he marries the
widowed Queen Dorothea, ib.;
he obtains the crown of Sweden,
195; the Swedes rebel and defeat
him, 196; he is defeated by Sten
Sture, 197; his character, 198;
his nickname, 199; he is crowned
in Norway, ib.; his schemes for
getting money, 200; the union of
Slesvig and Holstein, ib.; anger
of the Danes, 201; he loses the
Shetlands and Orkneys, ib.; his
daughter Margaret's dowry, 202;
his misuse of money, ib.; his
death, 203

Christian II., King of Denmark,

his birth, 212; he is nearly killed
by an ape, 213; how he was
brought up, ib.; his singing in the
choirs of Copenhagen, ib.; his
knowledge of Latin, 214; his
father's use of the rod, b.; in
Norway, ib.; he invades Sweden
and finally becomes king, 210,
211, 215; he is crowned at
Stockholm, 215; his massacre of
ninety Swedish nobles, 216; his
cruelty, 227, 230; he is called
"the Tyrant," 217; some of his
good works, ib.; puts down
strand rights, 218; favours culti-
vation of fruits and flowers, ib.;