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Visit to Sweden

editor — Thu, 09 Feb 2017 05:27:00 +0000

In ICELAND there was a great flowering of this northern Germanic art. Notable examples are found on the carved doorways ofthe stave churches, like the one from Valthjofstad (11 th-12th c.) in the Reykjavik Museum. Until the beginning ofthe Christian period in Scandinavia, however, there is little artistic progress to record. The adoption of Christianity (c. 1000) marked the terminal point of Viking art, and the stone churches which were now built displayed the power of the new faith. These churches, the best preserved monuments of the Romanesque period, were originally simple buildings in limestone, later in granite. The finest

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Travel to Sweden

editor — Sat, 28 Jan 2017 07:30:00 +0000

SWEDEN This gifted energetic king beats back attacks by Denmark, Poland and Russia (battle of Narva, 1700) and carries the war into the enemy countries. On an adventurous expedition into the Ukraine, however, he is decisively defeated at Poltava in 1709 and flees into Turkey. In 1716, accompanied by two faithful followers, he rides in 16 days to Stralsund. He is killed in 1718 under the walls of the Norwegian fortress of Fredrikssten. This ends the short period of absolutist rule in Sweden. Towards constitutional government and neutrality 1719-72 The Era of Liberty. After this collapse Sweden is compelled to

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Sweden Travel

editor — Wed, 25 Jan 2017 21:52:00 +0000

In the Iron Age, which dates in Scandinavia from about 600 B.C. to a.d. 400, the decorative art of the Bronze Age disappears and is replaced by only the most modest attempts at ornament. The magnificent silver cauldron found in a bog at Gundestrup, near Alborg in Jutland (National Museum, Copenhagen), with half-length figures of deities on the outside and scenes of sacrifice on the inside, is thought to be a cult vessel of Celtic origin dating from about the beginning ofthe Christian era. The second main period of Germanic art in Scandinavia, the early historical period of the first

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