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union of all three. First the villages had coalesced
into provinces, the provinces had consolidated into the
three northern kingdoms. Now the attempt was made
to form one Scandinavian kingdom.
CHAPTEE VI
PERIOD OF THE UNION, 1389-1521
A. MARGARET AND ERIC OP POMERANIA
Queen Margaret. Another day dawned for the Swed-
ish lords when Margaret seized the reins of govern-
ment. It was soon manifest that she was the daughter
of the wise and vigorous Waldemar Atterdag. Law
and justice were again respected to the common good
of all. But then there was no Bo Jonsson in the
country.
It was a magnificent power Margaret had estab-
lished. The three kingdoms, each by itself weak, could
now with united strength successfully contend with
dangerous rivals. They should now have been able to
break up the Hanseatic monopoly of the northern trade.
But one weakness was the fact that Margaret felt her-
self first and foremost a Dane. To her, Denmark was
the chief part in the Union and, indeed, at the time,
Denmark was the wealthiest and most populous of the
northern kingdoms. She appointed Danish nobles as
bailiffs in the most important Swedish castles, but no
Swedish nobleman was ever appointed to such a place
in Denmark. The bailiffs were a sort of petty kings in
the territories surrounding the castles.
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