This is an account of the Northern peoples by the Swedish historian Olaus Magnus (1490-1558).
The Swedish scholar and prelate, Olaus Magnus (1490-1557), last Catholic archbishop of Uppsala, lived the latter half of his life in exile. His devotion to his country and his people never faltered, nor his determination to give them a glorious place on the European cultural map by his writings. On [...]
This ethnographic essay on the peoples of Scandinavia is a store of fact and fantasy from early history to the 16th century.[...]