with errors and
barefaced exaggerations, is invaluable to any student of Swedish
history.

MAGNI, Johannes. _Historia pontificum metropolitanae ecclesiae
Upsaliensis in regnis Suetiae et Gothiae._ [In _Scriptores rerum
Suecicarum_, vol. iii. sect. 2, pp. 5-97.]

This work was first printed at Rome in 1557, with a preface by Olaus
Magni. Reprinted at Rome in 1560.

PETRI, Laurentius. _Then Svenska chroenikan._ [In _Scriptores rerum
Suecicarum_, vol. ii. sect. 2, pp. 3-151.]

Born 1499, died 1573. First Protestant archbishop of Sweden, and brother
of Olaus Petri. Lacked his brother's eloquence, but surpassed him and
indeed all men of his time as a writer of Swedish prose. This work is
nothing but his brother's _Svenska kroenika_, wholly revised, with the
omission of certain manifest errors. Like his brother's work, it runs
only to the year 1521, and is believed to have been completed about
1559.

SVANING, Hans. _Refutatio calumniarum cuiusdam Ioannis Magni Gothi
Upsalensis, quibus in historia sua ac famosa oratione Danicam gentem
incensit._ 1560. 4^o.

A Danish priest and royal historiographer; born 1503, died 1584. Was a
warm adherent of Fredrik II. of Denmark, and an opponent of Christiern
II. Wrote this book to refute the work _De omn. Goth._ of Johannes
Magni. It is so full of bitterness toward the Swedes that, while it was
going through the press, the Danish chancellor suppressed the pages
bearing Svaning's name, and the book was published under that of a
German professor named Rosefontanus, who had died in 1559. The name of
the printer and place of publication was also left out, and it was made
to appear as if compiled many years before from some documents which
Rosefontanus had seen when Christiern II. took refuge at his house. The
copy in the Royal Library at Stockholm contains the suppressed pages,
all soiled and torn. A second edition, bearing the author's real name,
was printed in Copenhagen in 1561.

SVANING, Hans. _Christiernus II. Daniae rex._ Francof., 1658. 12^o.

Published from an old MS. written by Svaning. Is written with much
vigor, though somewhat unfair both to Christiern II. and to Gustavus
Vasa.

SVART, Peder. _Aehrapredikning oeffwer then fordom stormechtigaste,
ooeffwerwinnelige, och hoegloffligaste furstes och herres, H. Gostafs,
Sweriges, Goethes, Waendes etc. konungz och faders, christelige lijk._
Holmiae, 1620. 4^o.

This is the funeral oration delivered over the body of Gustavu