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12 MARGARET OF NORWAY.
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labored both , to cultivate the mind and improve the disposition of her pupilsand there can be little doubt that her tuition went far to
, roy form al the charge future . It character has been and conjectured found the that future , notwithstanding _greatness of her her
extreme youth , Margaret had already conceived the outline of that gigantic project which became in later life the stake of all her
political ambition ; but of this we have no proof . Mere historical records afford no data for the solution of so vague a problem ; for
the operations of the mind are carried on as secretly and mysteriously as the operations of nature , and to judge of how dreams
develope into schemes , and schemes resolve themselves into determinations , would be as difficult as to explain by what process the
deposit of carbon hardens into the diamond , hundreds of feet below the surface of the earth .
When Margaret was at length taken from the Lady Martha ' s protectionandat fourteen years of age , became in reality as well
as in name , the , wife of King Hako , she found herself no longer Queen of two realms . The imperious Swedes , neither forgiving nor
forgetting the slight that had been put upon Elizabeth of Holstein , had deposed Hako and iven the crown to Albert of Mecklenburgh ,
g whose brother , Henry of Mecklenburgh , had , in the meantime , married the Princess Ingeborg , elder daughter to Waldemar of Denmark ,
and sister to Margaret . In what spirit the young Queen met this disaster—with what
willingness she exchanged her retirement for the pleasures of a courtand the society of her books and . her fellow-student for the
, duties of wife and sovereign—whether the first years of her marriage were happy , and if at this time she ever revisited Denmark
or saw King Waldemar again , are matters for conjecture only . Very obscure and imperfect are the histories which should chronicle her
early life , and very difficult is it to collate any kind of connected narrative from the scraps of Saga , legend , and anecdote , which lie
scattered up and down the pages of Northern literature . Great gaps in which ten or twenty years are passed over without record
occur only too frequently , and detail is always wanting just where it would be most icturesque and most interesting . It must be
recollected , however p , that up to the time of this very Margaret all Scandinavian history was legendary and defective , and that it was
she alone who rescued it from obscurity . Of her youth we know little ; but as she ages and becomes famous , the records of her reign
grow more explicit . Tedious disputes between Albert of Mecklenburgh and the two
deposed Kings ( Magnus and Hako ) next ensued ; and an indecisive civil war which weakened the resources of all without definitively
benefitting any , brings up the history of this epoch to the year 1370 , when a general peace was concluded , and the new King of Sweden
was left in quiet possession of his dominions . This interval was
not destined , however , to be of longer than five years' duration ; at
12 Margaret Of Norway.
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1859, page 12, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031859/page/12/
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