# Peeps at Many Lands: Sweden

Author: Liddle, William; Liddle, William, Mrs.; Larsson, Carl, 1853-1919 [Illustrator]; Zorn, Anders, 1860-1920 [Illustrator]

Genre: Category: Travel Writing

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43454

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Peeps+at+Many+Lands%3A+Sweden+Liddle&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

In one of the most beautiful and romantic districts of Sweden there is one of the oldest copper-mines in the world. It is situated at Falun in Dalecarlia. About 400 years ago a young man might have been seen looking into the open mine. He was full of thought and anxiety, for was not his country in the hands of the Danish King, Christian II., a cruel tyrant? and was not he himself being pursued and driven to seek concealment, as he was a direct descendant of the ancient Kings of Sweden? He had suffered much, but had never given up hope. He stood there thinking of his country’s down-trodden condition, hopeful, trustful, and resolute, resolving to deliver his native land from the foreign yok...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER XVI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/peeps-at-many-lands-sweden-43454/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/peeps-at-many-lands-sweden-43454/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/peeps-at-many-lands-sweden-43454/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/peeps-at-many-lands-sweden-43454/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/peeps-at-many-lands-sweden-43454/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/peeps-at-many-lands-sweden-43454/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/peeps-at-many-lands-sweden-43454/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/peeps-at-many-lands-sweden-43454/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/peeps-at-many-lands-sweden-43454/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/peeps-at-many-lands-sweden-43454/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/peeps-at-many-lands-sweden-43454/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/peeps-at-many-lands-sweden-43454/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/peeps-at-many-lands-sweden-43454/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/peeps-at-many-lands-sweden-43454/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/peeps-at-many-lands-sweden-43454/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/peeps-at-many-lands-sweden-43454/chapters/15/index.md)