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Ranging from Runes and the Poetic Edda to the Christmas messages of King Carl Gustaf XVI.
Also available by thematic search.
(Mainly Swedish texts; transcriptions)
An excellent source with dozens of links to Norse chronicles, histories, sagas, eddas, and other texts.
Digitized materials from the Royal Archives. With vital, court, ecclesiastical, estate, census and other source readily available, this is an excellent source for genealogical research.
(Facsimiles and transcriptions)
Many historical newspapers from Sweden.
(facsimiles)
Includes manuscripts, digital exhibitions, transcripts from the city of Umeå.
Also see Other Databases.
(Swedish facsimiles)
Includes historical manuscripts, including personal letters.
(Swedish facsimiles)
Documents of several types:
(Swedish)
Travel accounts of Finland, Lapland, and Sweden.
(Swedish and Finnish facsimiles)
Swedish page of the World Documents Library.
(photos; facsimiles)
Swedish royal and regents, plus other historical persons:
Biographical and genealogical data.
Alphabetically searchable, 35 generations, approx. 1700 persons
(Tenth to twentieth centuries; transcriptions and images)
Links to databases identified by the online journal Nättidningen Svensk Historia
as helpful in gathering vital statistics, images, documents, etc.
(Searchable historical databases)
Chronological commentary with links to primary documents from the Belorus past.
Includes relations and wars with France, Germany, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Sweden and Ukraine.
(13th century to present; Belarus transcriptions, English translations, images, maps and commentary).
Provided by the Latvian National Library
(16th to 18th centuries; map facsimiles and descriptions)
Collection of historical maps of Sweden.
(facsimiles)
Collection of historical maps of Europe.
(facsimiles; Hungarian)
(Photos, Norwegian interface)
In our digital collections we have brought together items based on different themes.
(Swedish; facsimiles)
Collection of historical documents on recent Swedish history, especially in relation to Russia.
(Russian)
Collection of peace agreements entered into by Sweden.
(English)
(16th to 20th centuries; facsimiles, transcriptions, maps, etc.)
(Facsimiles)
Accumulated numbers from the Swedish Central Bureau for Statistics.
(statistics, Swedish)
  • World Wonders Project: Sweden
Swedish heritage sites viewed with Google street view technology.
Gammelstad Church Village, Luleå
(Interactive facsimile images)

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