Identifier: ridpathsuniversa05ridp (find matches)
Title: Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Cincinnati : Jones
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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VIEW IN UPSAL. the old Ynglino;a Saga, which containsthe first expressions of Myth and tradi- tion of the vSwedisliself-consciousuess, Ynfflinga Saga. ,■> i^ j_ r i • i r ^ the first formal ideas oi the nation respecting itself. Accordingto this venerable legend the first kingsof Upsala were the Ynglingar, whosefountain head was called Yngve Frey,and he was the grandson of Wodin.This brings the dynasty of the gods andthe dynasty of men into closer unionthan the mythologists have usually been was vScania, a Gothic state w^hich hadvibrated in its political attachment be-tween vSweden and Den- The Scanians 1 rn J.1 -\ 4.*^ ^ ,,., vibrate between mark. To the latter coun- ti,e swedes andtry, in the ninth century, it the Danes,was annexed by King Crunthrun. Itappears, however, that the annexationwas never accepted as valid, at least notin whole. For hardly a half centurypassed without some disturbance be-tween Denmark and Sweden, in whichthe validity of the Scanian dependency
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74 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. on the former power wavS clialleng-ed bythe latter. This continued until theseventeenth century, when Scania wassevered from Denmark and left in con-nection with vSweden. The extent of the vSwedish territory is such as to give the kingdom rank as one of the great powers of Rank and race . connections of Europc. The sauic might the Swedes. , , ^ -11:^.1 almost be said ot the popu-lation, which, at the end of 1885, wasestimated at four million six hundredand eighty-three thousand. The raceis almost entirely of immediate Scandi-navian and ultimate Teutonic derivation.To this the principal exception is in thecase of the Finns, who, in 1880, wereestimated at seventeen thousand. TheLapps were thought at the same time tonumber between six and seven thou-sand. The Finnish territory is in thenortheastern part of Sweden, includingthe country of Norrbotten, while theLapps occupy a territory of about forty-four thousand square miles, lying inwhat is called Lapland and J

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