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place of contest for different partisans, where
Ladelaas’s sons plant the banner, and where the
German Albrecht’s retainers burn the Swedes
alive within its walls. Stockholm is, however,
the heart of the kingdom: that the Danes know
well; that the Swedes know too, and there is
strife and bloody combating. Blood flows by
the executioner’s hand, Denmark’s Christian
the Second, Sweden’s executioner, stands in the
market-place.
Roll, ye runes! see over Brunkaberg sand-ridge,
where the Swedish people conquered the
Danish host, there they raise the May-pole: it
is midsummer-eve – Gustavus Vasa makes his
entry into Stockholm.
Around the May-pole there grow fruit and
kitchen-gardens, houses and streets; they vanish
in flames, they rise again; that gloomy fortress
towards the tower is transformed into a palace,
and the city stands magnificently with towers
and draw-bridges. There grows a town by
itself on the sand-ridge, a third springs up
on the rock towards the south; the old
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