Guttorm, the child-king of Norway,
155
Gyllenstjerna, Erik's envoy to Eliza-
beth, 238, 239

H.

Hafursfjord, sea-battle of, 68
Hakon Athelstane-fostre, son of
Harald Haarfager, 70; he is
placed on the knees of King
Æthelstan, ib.; his good training
in England, 71; his laws, 77, 78;
becomes King of Norway, 78;
his reign, ib.; his subjects refuse
to become Christians, ib.; Sigurd
Jarl tries to screen him, ib.; his
defeat and death, 79

Hakon Jarl, King of Norway, and
Harald, 48; his treachery, 49,
79

Hakon III., King of Norway, his
brief reign, 154; he is murdered,
ib.
Hakon IV., King of Norway, his
accession, 155; his character,
169; his wars, 170; he defeats
Skule Baardsson at Oslö, ib.; his
fame in distant lands, ib.; he
subdues and annexes Iceland, ib. ;
his invasion of Scotland, 171; he
is defeated at Largs, ib.; his death,

ib.
Hakon V., King of Norway, his

reign, 172; his successor, 173
Hakon VI., King of Norway, mar-
ries the Princess Margaret, 139,
164; succeeds to the throne, 172,
173; his death, 142
Halfden Svarte, Smail King, of Nor-
way, 67

Hamburgh, created an archbishop-
ric, 35; burnt by the Northmen,
ib.

Hans, King of Denmark, 203; is

chosen King of Norway, 203,

208;
Prince Frederick's ambi-
tion, 203; the king follows his
bad advice, 204; he conquers
and loses Sweden, ib.; his queen
imprisoned in Sweden, 205;
and Sten Sture, 209; campaign
against the Ditmarshers, 206; he
is defeated, 207; his only suc-
cessful war, ib.; his death, ib.;
how he brought up his son, 212,
213, 214

Hans of Pelvorm, he slays King
Abel, 124

Hansers secure fisheries, and forbid
royal servants to fish, 132; their
quarrel with Valdemar Atterdag,
137; they are insulted by him,
138; admitted to electoral rights,
140; attack Copenhagen, 186
Harald Blaatand, King of Den-
mark, his cruelty and craft, 48;
his profession of Christianity, 49;
he is defeated by Otho I. of Ger-
many, ib.; his death, 50
Harald Gille Magnusson,
through the ordeal of a red-hot
iron, and is owned by the king as
his brother, 153; his joint reign,
ib.; he blinds his fellow-king,
154; he is strangled in his bed,
ib.

goes

Harald Graafell, King of Norway,
his death, 48

Harald Haardraade, King of Nor-
way, harasses the Danes, 90; his
wish to invade Denmark, 150;
his adventures in the East, 151;
his escape from prison, ib. ; his
marriage, ib.; his invasion of
England and death at Stamford
Bridge, ib.

Harald Haarfager, first King of all
Norway, 68; his oath, ib.; his
severity to the Norwegians, ib.;
he condemns Rollo the Norman
as an outlaw, 69; his family
troubles, 70; he dies at a great
age, ib.; his gift of a gold-beaked

ship to King Athelstan, 71; a
result of his stern rule, 72
Harald Harefoot, King of England,
55; his reign, ib.; his body dis-
interred, 56

Harald Hejn, King of Denmark,
his reign, and why he was called
"Hejn," 94

Harald Hildetand, King of the
Danes, slain by Odin, 27
Harald Kesia, son of Erik Ejegod,
100; his murder, 104
Harald Klak, King of the Danes,
his conversion, baptism, and
sponsors, 33; the oath he took,
ib.; his many presents, ib.; he
returns to the Emperor's court, 34
Harald, son of Sweyn, King of
Denmark, 51

Hardegon, or Hardeknud, King of
Lejre, 36

Harthaknud, his mother conspires to
get him the Danish throne, 52;
his reign, 55; his liberality to the
clergy, ib.; his hatred of his
brother Harald, ib.; Earl God-
wine gives him a ship, 56; his
death, ib.

Hedeby. See Slesvig.

Heinriksson, Johan, murderer of
King Erik, 242
Hejde, battle of, 245
Helge, a Danish king, 26
Hemming Gade, Bishop of Lin-
köping, 210

Hemmingen, Nils, his persecution,
247

Henrik, first archbishop in Sweden,

147; his zeal and death, ih.
Henry, Count of Holstein, the
"Iron Count," 135
Henry, Count Duke of Schwerin,

his hatred of Valdemar II., 115;
he seizes the king and his son,
and imprisons them in Danneberg
Castle, 116; the terms upon
which he released them, 118; the
Pope's message to him, 119

Henry of Neustria, attempts to re-
lieve Paris, 42; is defeated, 43
Henry I., Emperor of Germany,
surnamed the Fowler, defeats
Gorm, 46

Herjar-Thing, or Icelandic assize, 75
Hinze, Canon George, tutor of
Prince Christian, 213

Holmgang, or fight on an island, 74
Holstein, beginning of the Slesvig

wars, 126; its Counts and Chris-
topher II., 134, 135; wars with
Denmark, 134, 135, 140; with
Sweden, 181, 184-186; union
with Slesvig, 200

Hother, slain by Stærkodder, 25
Hyperboreans, or Outside North-
winders, I

I.

Iceland first visited between 861
and 868, 73; reported to be a
land of mountain giants, ib.; the
Norwegians revisit it, ib.; its
settlement by Ingolf, 74; Thorolf
brings an image of Thor and
takes formal possession of the
country, 74, 75; he builds a
temple, 75; he founds the "Her-
jar-Thing," ib.; the island is
divided into districts, 76; a code
of laws prepared by Ulfijot, i.;
a republic for 300 years, 77
cruel wars for the mastery, ib.; is
annexed to Norway, 171

Inge Baardsen, King of Norway,
his troubled reign, 155
Ingeborg, daughter of Valdemar
Atterdag, her marriage and
death, 141

Ingeborg, Queen of Denmark, her
great grief, 133

Ingjald Ill-raada, burns the six
Small Kings, 61; his death with
his daughter Aasa, ib.; his chil
dren expelled, 62

Jacob Andreæ, professor at Tübin-
gen, 247

James I. of England, his Queen,
249; Christian. IV. visits him,
250; Charles IX. sends an em-
bassy to him, 270
Jaukuwitz, battle of, 287
Jellyfish, or Medusa, called "Lung
of the Sea," 4

Johan, nephew of Charles IX., he
declines the regency, 274
Johan, son of Gustaf, his marriage,

238; he and his wife are im-
prisoned by his brother, ih.; he
escapes and rebels, 241; causes
his brother to be poisoned, 242
Johan, son of Sverker Karlsson,
145; his death, 149

Johan III., crowned King of Sweden

on deposition of his brother, 258;
his suspicion of Duke Karl, ib.;
his learning and zeal for Catho-
licism, ib.; his liturgy, 259; the
Pope disapproves of his conduct,
ib.; his second wife and conse-
quent change of views, ib. ; the
miseries of his reign, 260; his
son succeeds to the Polish crown,
ib.; he imprisons most of his

Kæmpeviser, or Danish rhyming
verses, 121, 248

Karl, a peasant, story of him and
King Svend, 90

Karl, Duke. See Karl IX.
Karl Knudsson, Erik appoints him

Marshal, 187; proclaimed King
of Sweden, ib. ; he exacts terms
from Christopher, 189, 193; his
influence in Sweden, 193; he
goes to Finland, 194; he is
crowned King of Sweden, ib.;
and of Norway, ib.; his enemies,
195; he leaves his kingdom, ib. ;
he is recalled, 196; his death,
ib.

Karl Nilsson, is murdered by Bo
Jonsson, 166

Karl, son of Knud the Saint, his
fate, 96

Karl IX. of Sweden, deposes Erik,
258; his abilities and zeal for
Protestantism, 258, 267, 268; on
the death of Johan he conducts
the government, 261; he sum-
mons the assembly at Upsala,

ib.; Sigismund's return, 263;
Karl as Regent, 265; he defeats
Sigismund at Stängebro, ib.; he
subdues Finland, 266; is pro-
claimed king, ib.; his learning,
character and conduct, 267, 268;
he improves the country, 268,
269; his foreign wars, 269; his
death, ib.; his alliances with
Protestant powers, 270; as a
poet and author, ib.; his family,
271

Katerina, daughter of Charles IX.,

271

Katerina Jagellonica, Queen of
Johan III., 258; her death,
259; and Ivan II. of Russia,
262

Kimbri, and the Romans, 7
Kings, Pontiff, of Scandinavia, 63
Klas Fleming, governor of Finland,
263, 265
Knipperdolling,

an Anabaptist,
driven out of Sweden, 233
Knud Dan-Ast, son of Gorm, 46;
his death, 47

Knud Lavard, his murder by prince
Magnus, 100; the vengeance
taken by his brother, 101
Knud the Great, his Christianity,
51, 52; he murders his brother-
in-law, Ulf Jarl, 52; his remorse,
53; he pays his sister Estrid a
blood-fine, ib.; he brings up his
nephew, Svend, 54; his death,
ib.; his conquests, ib.; the fate of
his sons, ib. ; his share in the
defeat of Olaf the Saint, So
Knud the Saint, King of Denmark,

his character, 94; his severity to
pirates, ib.; how he favoured the
clergy and oppressed the laity,
95; the result of his conduct,
ib.; his murder and the fate of his
only son Karl, 96; his canoniza-
tion, 96, 99

Knud VI., King of Denmark, defies
the Emperor of Germany, 109;

his great successes, 110; a re-
bellion in Slesvig is put down,
ib.; his disputes with Philip
Augustus of France, 111; his
death, ib.

Konúngr, northern name for King,

20

Kristina, second wife of Charles
IX., 271; declines the regency,
274
Krumpe, Otte, Danish general,
211, 215, 246

L.

Largs, the battle of, 171

Laurentius Andreæ, Gustaf's chan
cellor, 232; the address he read
to the Diet, 233

Laws of Thorleif the Wise and
Ulfjot, 77; of Denmark, 97,
120, 252; of Sweden, 160
Leahy, battle of, 178

Leif, son of Erik Raudi, 84; he

sails from Greenland, 85; his
discoveries, 86; his death, 87
Lejre, or Ledra, in the Island of
Sjælland, 21; its kings and their
influence as pontiff-kings, 22, 38.
63; how Hardegon and Gorm
ascended the throne, 37; its
sacred character, 37, 63
Lena, battle of, 149
Lenbelfing, August von, witnesses
the death of Gustaf Adolf, 282;
his death, 283

Lochlin, the men of, 70
Louis I. of France, surnamed Le
Debonnaire, his wish to convert
the heathen, 32; stands sponsor
to Harald Klak, 33; sends mis-
sionaries to Denmark, 33, 34
Louis IX. of France, sends
embassy to Hakon IV., 170
Louvaine, battle of, 43
Lübeck, treaty of, 254

an

Lübeck Traders, their defeat by the

Danes, 207

Lund, capital of Skaania, 64; Arch-
bishopric of, 23, 145

Lung of the Sea, its meaning, 4
Lutheran faith established in Den-
mark, 224; in Sweden, 232, 233,
235, 261

Lützen, battle of, 280

Lyö, the fatal hunt on, 116

M.

Mads, Bishop, of Strangnoes, his
execution, 216
Magdeburg, siege of, 279
Magnus Barfod, King of Norway,

his wars, 152 ; he marries
Margrete, the "Peace Maiden,'
ib.; he invades Ireland and is
slain, ib.

Magnus, brother of Erik, his in-
sanity, 241

Magnus, brother of Frederick II.,
246

Magnus Henriksen, attacks the

Swedes at Upsala, 147
Magnus Ladu-laas, seizes on Val-
demar, 159; his able reign, ib. ;
his merits as a law-giver, ib. ; his
nickname, ib.; he ranks men as
free and un-free, ib. ; establishes
the service of russ-tjenst, 160;
his court, b.; he supports the
church, ib.; his death and burial-
place, ib.
Magnus Laga-boeter,

King of

Norway and the Hebrides, 171;
as a law-giver, 172
Magnus Smek, son of Duke Erik,
offers to marry Princess Elizabeth,
139; is chosen King of Sweden
and Norway, 163; his minority,
ib.; his vicious conduct
weakness, ib.; his Queen, 163,
164; his son Erik killed, 164;

and

Hakon made King of Norway,
ib.; his friendship for Valdemar
Atterdag of Denmark, ib. ; he
gives up Skaania and other
provinces, ib.; he outlaws twenty-
four nobles, 165; what they do,
ib.; his fate, ib; the respect of
the Norwegians for him, 173
Magnus, son of Birger, is treacher-
ously beheaded, 102, 163
Magnus, son of Neils, murders Knud
Lavard, 100; he is slain at
Fodevig, 101

Magnus the Blind, King of Norway,
his troubled reign, 153; he is
killed in battle, 154

Magnus the Good, King of Den-
mark and Norway, his kindness to
Svend, 57, 81; his death, ib.
Man, Isle of, subdued by Magnus
Barfod, 152

Mannsdatter, Karren or Katherina,
wife of King Erik, 240, 241; his
love for her, 243

Margaret, daughter of Erik the
Saint, 154

Margaret, Queen, her marriage,
141; she is Queen Regent of
Norway and Denmark, 142; is
chosen Queen of Sweden, 167,
177, 178; she defeats King Albert,
167, 178; her able rule, 167; her
nephew Erik appointed her
successor, 168, 174, 176; she
effects the union of the three
kingdoms, 168; is chosen Queen
of Norway, 168, 174; and of
Denmark, 168, 175; her popu
larity, 175; what foreigners
thought of her, 176; she avenges
the insults of King Albert, 178;
Stockholm resists her, 179; she
releases King Albert on payment
of a ransom, ib. ; Erik's in-
capacity, 180; she sails to Slesvig,
181; her death, 182; her fame,
ib.; the tact with which she
ruled, 184