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MARGARET OF NORWAY. 15
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_resolved tliat her son should unite the three great northern empires . Two were already his , and Sweden , the third , must become so at the
death of Albert of Mecklenburgh—perhaps sooner , for his Barons been were evident openly discontent In order , and therefore his incapacit that Olaf y as mi a soverei ht lose gn none had of long his g
. , , actual or prospective dominions , the Queen made frequent progresses peasants through all and three nobles countries alike b , y taking her good the nature boy with and her liberalit , and deli y . g These hting
proceedings were , of course , by no means acceptable to the Swedish King , who soon advanced them as a pretext for invading the contest Norway in .
Defeated and driven back in 1381 , he returned to 1383 , and with the same result . A sullen armistice ensued . Albertstill mortified and uneasy , laid plans of future aggression ,
nor suspected , the storm that was brewing in the distance ; while Margaret , foreseeing what must the rest shortly the occur meanwhile in Sweden she , turned waited
her calml attention y by , and to left Scania time to which do her . father In had mortgaged to the Hanseatic towns for a period , of fifteen years . That term having
now and to exp this ired , end she unexpectedl proceeded to y claim presented the restoration herself before of the the province deputies ,
then sitting at Lubeck , bringing King Olaf with her , and a train of Danish and German nobles . Unwilling as were the mortgagees to
part honorable from so alternative valuable a territory and Queen , this Margaret energetic returned step left home them with no
the title-deeds of the , province . She then made a progress into Scania Mindful , and of , with her her favorite son , policy receive and d the anxious homage if of possible the estates , to rep . lace
, , ful an enemy famil by of a Holstein friend , Queen and in Margaret the next 1386 conciliated invested the or power rather - year ,
caused her y son to invest , Count Gerard with the , important fief of , SleswickHistorians have blamed the policy "which thus alienated
. a wealthy province from the crown ; but we question whether , when so blamingthey considered the magnitude of the stake for which
Margaret was , playing , or the circumstances under which she made the concession . The Counts of Plolstein had ever regarded Sleswick
as their legal inheritance , and Count Gerard had long occupied the lace by forceof arms . He was powerfulhe had justice on his
p side , the noble , s sympathised with him , and , the people loved him . He was a troublesome enemybut might prove a useful friend .
It were something , at all events , , to purchase his neutrality ; and the ambitious need more forbearance than the peacefully disposed .
After all , Margaret but staked a province for a kingdom , and won . With regard to the Counts of Holstein , it may be interesting to
observe that from the family of this very Gerard , on the female sidethe present royal house of Denmark .
, sprang In 1387 , King Olaf died . Pie was very young—scarcely seventeen years of age—and had been sickly from his birth . Pie was
succeeded in Norway and Denmark by his mother the Queen-regent .
Margaret Of Norway. 15
MARGARET OF NORWAY . 15
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1859, page 15, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031859/page/15/
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