Scandinavian History

Scandinavian History

  • Drottning Elisabeths svenska hovdam

    Som jag tidigare skrivit om så hade Cecilia Vasa att följe på cirka hundra personer när hon anlände till England för sin inte helt lyckade vistelse vid drottning Elizabeths hov. En av dessa var Helena Snakenborg, född 1549, dotter till… Continue reading

  • Queen Elizabeth’s Swedish Lady-in-Waiting

    As I previously wrote, Cecilia Vasa had a following of around a hundred people when she arrived in England for her unsuccessful stay at Queen Elizabeth’s court. One of these was Helena Snakenborg, born in 1549, daughter of the castle… Continue reading

  • Egil Skallagrimsson, vikingaskald

    Inte alla namn som dyker upp i de nordiska eller isländska sagorna och sekulära myterna tillhör personer som faktiskt existerat. Ett undantag är den isländske skalden Egil Skallagrimsson, han levde faktiskt en gång, och har gått till historien som inte… Continue reading

  • Egil Skallagrimsson, Viking poet

    Not all names in the Norse or Icelandic sagas and secular myths refer to people who actually existed. An exception is the Icelandic poet Egil Skallagrimsson; he lived once and has gone down in history as not only Iceland’s but… Continue reading

  • Prinsessan och Drottningen

    När bröllopsförhandlingarna började för Cecilia Vasa och hennes blivande make 1564 så gav hon uttryck för att hon hellre skulle vilja avstå äktenskap och istället bli hovdam hos en monark som hade hennes djupaste beundran: Elizabeth I av England. Det… Continue reading

  • The Princess and the Queen

    When the wedding negotiations began for Cecilia Vasa and her future husband in 1564, she expressed that she would rather forgo marriage and instead become a lady-in-waiting to a monarch whom she had the most profound admiration for: Elizabeth I… Continue reading

  • Albertus Pictor, master of light and shadow

    Walking into a Medieval church that has either preserved its ceiling paintings or restored them can be like entering a completely different dimension of devils and saints, mythological images and depictions of everyday life when the paintings were made. Unlike… Continue reading

  • Albertus Pictor, mästare av högdagrar och skuggor

    Att gå in i en äldre kyrka som antingen låtit bevara sina takmålningar eller restaurerat dem kan vara som att träda in i en helt annan dimension av djävlar och helgon, mytologiska bilder och avbildningar av det vardagliga livet i… Continue reading

  • Eriksgata, to introduce a King

    Now the king will ride his eriksgata, and the men of the country will follow him and give him hostages, such that he is safe and secure, and swear this oath that was said before. And the king must promise… Continue reading

  • Mora stone, where kings were elected

    About one-mile southeast of the cathedral in Uppsala is, compared to the cathedral, a significantly less well-known memorial to Swedish history. Like so many other memories from the past in Uppland in particular, it is about stones, but, which otherwise… Continue reading