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sanguinary gulf of brutality and superstition. Terror
seizes us in Upsala’s palace: we stand in the
vaulted hall, the wax tapers burn from the walls,
and King Erik the Fourteenth sits with Saul’s
dark despondency, with Cain’s wild looks. Niels
Sture occupies his thoughts, the recollection of
injustice exercised against him lashes his
conscience with scourges and scorpions, as deadly
terrible as they are revealed to us in the page
of history.
King Erik the Fourteenth, whose gloomy
distrust often amounted to insanity, thought
that the nobility aimed at his life. His favourite,
Goran Persson, found it to his advantage to
strengthen him in this belief. He hated most
the popularly favoured race of the Stures, and
of them, the light-haired Niels Sture in
particular; for Erik thought that he had read in the
stars that a man with light hair should hurl him
from the throne; and as the Swedish General
after the lost battle of Svarteaa, laid the blame
on Niels Sture, Erik directly believed it, yet
dared not to act as he desired, but even gave
Niels Sture royal presents. Yet because he was
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