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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- Collection of historical documents on recent Swedish history, especially in relation to Russia.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)
- Utflykten: A History of Nordic Travel
- (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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EuroDocs Creator: Richard Hacken, European Studies Librarian,
Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA.
Feel free to get in touch: Hacken @ byu.edu