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The captain telegraphed to Calmar, our next port, and received an answer that the sound was full of ice and the harbor frozen up.
I myself did see her, when scarce three years old, clap her tiny hands and laugh aloud when the guns of Calmar fortress thundered a salute. 'She must learn to bear it, said Gustavus our king; 'she is a soldier's daughter." "Hail, Christina!" shouted the assembly, won by the proud bearing of the little girl and by her likeness to her valiant father. "We will have her and only her for our queen!"
The accession of Magnus Smek, the son of his daughter, to the throne of Norway , led eventually to the Union of Calmar , in which Sweden, Norway, and Denmark were brought together. "The situation of Norway, during the Middle Ages, might be shortly described as an absolute monarchy resting almost directly on one of the most democratic states of society in Europe."
One after another these fell, Calmar and Stockholm in 1523, and in June of that year Gustavus was chosen king of the land which his hand had freed. A young man still, he was at the beginning of a great and glorious reign. Before he became king, Christian, his great enemy, had ceased to reign.
We have had no occasion hitherto to speak of the Scandinavian kingdoms of Norway, Sweden, and Denmark, which the northern German peoples had established about Charlemagne's time; but from now on they begin to take part in the affairs of central Europe. The Union of Calmar had brought these three kingdoms, previously separate, under a single ruler.
A month after, on the Queen's birthday, July 13th, a legitimate charter was drawn up, to which the Queen subscribed and put her seal; on which occasion Eric of Pomerania was anointed and crowned by the archbishops of Upsala and Lund as king of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. The Te Deum was sung in the churches of Calmar, the assembly crying out: "Hæcce unio esto perpetua!
It gave the people confidence, thousands flocked to serve under Gustavus's banner, and within a few months the whole country, excepting Stockholm and Calmar, was in his hands.
Neither party was strong enough to subdue the other. PROTESTANTISM IN SCANDINAVIA. In the Scandinavian countries, monarchical power was built up by means of the Reformation. The union of Calmar under Queen Margaret, between Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, had been a dynastic union. The several peoples were not united in feeling.
Representatives of the three kingdoms were summoned by her to a meeting at Calmar, where, in July, 1397, a compact uniting the three kingdoms under one ruler was drawn up and signed. This was the famous Calmar Union, which held Norway captive for more than four hundred years.
To the excessive self-love, intemperance, conceitedness, and want of foresight which had characterized all his actions, the unhappy Albert had to ascribe his present situation. The year following, the Queen stormed the important city of Calmar, yet siding with the imprisoned King.
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