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INDEX
Abo, treaty of, 256
Abolition of Estates, 345
Absalon, bishop and missionary, 63
Absolutism, under Charles XI, 205;
under Charles XII, 217-40; abolished,
241; resumed under Gustavus III,
297; again abolished, 312
Acrelius, Israel, pastor in New Swe-
den, 401; historian of New Sweden,
401
Adlercreutz, Karl Johan, commander,
306; victorious at Lappo, 308; de-
feated at Oravais, 309; arrests Gus-
tavus IV Adolphus, 311
Adolf Frederick chosen heir to throne,
256; reign of, 268-78; royalty courts
peasants, 269; plots coup d’etat, 270;
involved in Seven Years’ War, 271;
Hats ousted after defeat, 273; new
Cap party in Russian intrigues, 274;
system of bribery, 275; national in-
dependence threatened, 275; agri-
cultural reforms, 276; mercantile
system abandoned, 277; industrial
crisis, 277;
Agriculture, earliest, 5; promoted, 116;
neglected, 167; reformed, 276; mod-
ern, 335
"Aftonbladet," 328;
Aland, 20
Albert of Mecklenburg, puppet king,
85; ruled by nobles, 85; deposed and
imprisoned, 86
Alexander, I, tsar of Russia, 304
Ahngsas, a new industrial city, 24U
Alstrom(er), Jonas, promoter of in-
dustry, 249; introduced potato as
staple food, 250
Altranstadt, treaty of, 225
Ancestry of present Swedes, 2; race
connections, 8
Anckarstrom, Jacob Johan, regicide
299
Anckarsvard, Karl Henrik, political
leader, 327
Andreae, Laurentius, archdeacon, 110;
chancellor, 111; dismissed as king’s
councillor, 119
Anjala conspiracy, 294; conclusion of,
298; surrender of Sveaborg last act
m tragedy, 308
Ansgar, 40; childhood and youth, 41-
archbishop of all Scandinavia, 44;
established church in north, 45; first
missionary to Sweden, 43; preach-
ing in Birka, 44; second visit, 44;
simple life, 46
Arab writer on Swedish vikings quoted,
01
Arboga, place of first Swedish Riks-
dag, 89
"Argus,Then Swanska" (The Swedish
Argus), 262
Armfelt, Gustav Maurits, 292
Art, 287, 376; painting, 376; sculpture,
379; architecture, 380
Art of printing, 93
Art of writing, 15; invention of al-
phabet, 15; runic alphabet, 16;
Asas, Northern deities, 24
Asgard, 23
Ask, 25
Atlantic, viking expeditions in, 37
Augsburg Confession adopted at Upp-
sala, 135
Auren, Jonas, surveyor of New Swe-
den, 398
Aurora Association founded, 361
Atterbom, Per Daniel Amadeus, poet,
361
Augustana Synod, 391
B
Balder, Norse god, 24, 26
Baltic, a fresh-water lake, 2
Baner, John, commander, 160, com-
mander-in-chief, 172; death, 173
Bank of the realm founded, 197
Bellman, Karl Mikael, poet, 288
Belts, crossing of, 190
Bender, tumult in, 235
Bergh, Richard, painter, 378
Bergman, Torbern, chemist, 262
Bemadotte, Jean Baptiste Jules, mar-
shal of France, 316; chosen crown
prince, 317;
Bernadotte Period, 335-90 ; economic
progress: in agriculture, 335,; in
stock raising and dairying, 336; in
forestry, 337; in mining, 338; in
manufactures, 339; in water power,
340; in trade and transportation,
340; in canal construction, 340;
political progress: abolition of the
four Estates, 343; new organization
of Riksdag, 345; tariff legislation,
346; national defense by land and
sea, 347; suffrage extension, 348;
social progress: rights of woman,
political and social, extended, 349;
temperance prompted, 352; labor
legislation, 354; people’s pension act,
355; educational progress: public
school system established, 357; na-
tional museums founded, 357
Bernard of Weimar, commander, 171
Berzelius, Jons Jacob, chemist, 353,
381
Birchlegs (Birkebeiner), 74
"Bird Griffin," 392
419
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