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MAEGABET OF NORWAY. 19 ¦ y2-
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to ridicule a illar of in the RoesMlde people . Cathedral * This done where , slie it liad ma tlie be seen whetstone to this nailed day ; y
and p sent both father and son to , the Castle of Lindholni in Scania , w _^ here they remained for seven
years . garet Ho ' w s ever authori , no t t even throug this hout great Sweden victory . Those established districts . Queen which Mar had
not voluntarilelected y her at the firstheld out for Albert to the last . Anarch y y and civil warfare followed , . Whole towns fell into
the hands of the Germans , and whole provinces were laid waste by their mercenariesRobber fortresses sprang up on land . Pirate
. ou shi tr p age s inf " were ested the the order coasts of , and the anchored day . The in fields the harbours were left . untilled Pillage ; and the
crops Swedish failed historian ; and , the '' o land ne cou became ld easil a y desert find . an _" hundred At this time yeomen , " sa who ys a load of
i together nu " Wearied tilitof did t of heir not suffering possess adherence -, half long to a ing an ton undeservin for of p barley eace , , and or rince a convinced the wretched hay of . " the g p
remnant of King Albert ' s partisans at length sent , in their submission , and for the Margaret re-establishment became absolute of order in ; Sweden concluded . She a treaty then with took
measures exterminated the Duke of Mecklenburg the Baltic ira ; procured tes ; and the rest withdrawal ored prosperity of the and Germans safety _% ; p
son the country and the . Que Albert en fixe then d his sue ransom d for his at own sixty liberty thousand and silver that marks of his
— agreed about , to £ 10 advance , 500 Eng for lish him money taking . This the sum city the of Hanseatic Stockholm towns for
, security , and so , in the year 1395 , after seven years' imprisonment , he set free
was . her Thus womanhoo , at forty d -three and her years wisdom of age , Queen while yet Margaret in the achieved plenitude the of
enemies highest p banished oint of all anarch her gre established atness , ; and order , having and overborne subdued her the
be prejudice absolute , s of and those undisputed who were y , soverei hostile gn to of her the rule three , , came great at king length doms to
of the North . ( To be concluded in our next , )
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The peak was good long . " Mechlenburgh Rhyme Chronicle _.
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Maegabet Of Norway. 19 ¦ Y2-
MAEGABET OF NORWAY . 19 ¦ y 2-
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1859, page 19, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031859/page/19/
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