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128 A History of Sweden
industrious and able man, who wished to strengthen
the royal power and weaken the influence of the lords,
but he was filled with an envious hatred of them, and
was delighted when he could do them an injury.
Eric XIV.
Like many others of that day, Eric had a firm belief
in astrology and thought that he had read in the stars
that a fair-haired man was to thrust him from the
throne. He brooded over this and feared his brother
John and Svante Sture’s oldest son Nils, both of whom
had light hair. Persuaded by his secretary that the son
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