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xvi PREFACE.
Part of Anders FryxelPs lively and readable Berattelser
ur Svenska Historien (up to 1577) has been pleasantly trans
lated by Anne von Schoultz, and edited by Mary Howitt,
two vols., Lond., 1844; and E. C. Otte s Scandinavian
History (1874) ^ s a verv useful compendium.
Less known in England is Th. Norlin s Svenska
Kyrkans Historia efter Reformationen, of which only the
first volume was completed before the author s premature
death (1864 I
^7i). It describes the period from 1594 to
1649 ;
that is a large part of the period covered by my sixth
lecture. It is a book of more than usual originality and power,
and I much regret that it is unfinished. The author s Kort
Ofversigt af Svenska Kyrkans Historia, published in 1866,
is also valuable, and with Dr. Hjalmar Holmquist s article,
Schweden in P. JR. E.3
,
vol. 18, will give a reader who has
little time to spare a good idea of the course and character
of the history. Besides these, I
may mention R. Keyser:
Den Norske Kirkes Historie under Katholicismen, 2
vols., Christiana, 1856 1858, and Elis Bergroth Den
Finska Kyrkans Historia, Helsingfors, 1892.
Of other books covering a considerable period Bishop
John Baaz Inventarium Suiogothicum, Lincopiae, 1642,
though wanting in accuracy and judgment, contains a con
venient collection of documents, which must be used with
care. I have found A. O. Rhyzelius Episcoposcopia
Suiogothica (2 parts, Linkoping, 1752) exceedingly useful,
and so is S. A. Hollander s smaller book, Biskopar och
Superintendenter, Stockholm, 1874, which only deals with
prelates in Sweden and Finland since the Reformation.
Rhyzelius and Hollander are said to be often inaccurate,
but they are indispensable. All the above are in my own
library. References to the Scrip tores rerum Suecicarum
in three volumes, folio, printed at Upsala (I. ed., E. M.
Fant, 1818; II. ed., E. G. Geijer and J. H.Schroder, 1828;
and III. ed., Cl. Annerstedt, 1871 1876) are to a copy
kindly lent me by the London Library through the
friendly intervention of our dean, Dr. Wm. Page Roberts.
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