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The changes which occurred about this period in the north of Europe are sufficiently memorable to claim a few moments' attention. In Sweden two princes died Haken and Knut, half-brothers of King Magnus; and in Westgothland alone, 466 priests.
The changes which occurred about this period in the North of Europe are sufficiently memorable. In Sweden two princes died Haken and Canute, half-brothers of King Magnus; and in Westgothland alone four hundred and sixty-six priests.
Italy was most severely visited, and was said to have lost most of its inhabitants. In the north of Europe two of the brothers of Magnus, King of Sweden, died; and in Westgothland alone 466 priests died. The plague showed no decrease in the northern climates of Iceland and Greenland, and caused great havoc in those countries.
In Westgothland, a province of Sweden, there are fine examples with walls of limestone and often roofs of granite visible above the surface of the mound. The largest of these tombs is that of Karleby near Falköping. In another at Axevalla Heath were found nineteen bodies seated round the wall of the chamber, each in a separate small cist of stone slabs.
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