Sweden 1387 - 1814

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From inside the Swedish Historical Museum.
Reproductions of objects testifying to early life in Sweden.
(10,000 BCE - 1500; photo facsimiles)
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)
Digital full-text searchable edition of Sweden's foremost archaeological journal.
Includes photo images and drawings of antiquities.
(Ancient to medieval; facsimiles and commentary in Swedish and other languages)
Discovered in Sveg near Östersund.
Digitized by the Regional Archives in Östersund.
(8 July 1401; Old Norse transcription with Modern Swedish translation and commentary)
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Sources for the History of the Medieval (Germanic) Empire.
Includes recorded conferences of the Hanseatic League.
(800 - 1503; Latin and contemporary vernacular transcriptions with critical apparatus)
Norsemen (and -women, including Lapps) as portrayed in 16th-century Italian illustrations.
(16th century; facsimiles & commentary)
From the National Archives.
(1616-1653; Swedish, Latin and German text facsimiles and transcriptions
with Swedish, German or English summaries)
Sunk in Stockholm Harbor on its maiden voyage in 1628 and raised in 1961.
Official website of the Vasa Museum.
Click on "Choose Language" dialogue box if necessary.
(10 August 1628; Images with English or Swedish commentary)
See also English-language sites on the Vasa's revival, and its chronology.
(Images, commentary and bibliographies)
Sunk during the Scanian War with Denmark
(1676; photographic facsimiles and English commentary)
Example of a loyalty pledge demanded by Swedes of rural folk during the Scanian War with Denmark.
From originals in the Regional Archives of Lund.
(1677; facsimiles and transcriptions)
Minutes from witch trials in the region of Jämtland.
Digitized by the Regional Archives in Östersund.
(1642-1694; transcriptions)
Presented by the National Library of Norway.
(1716-1718; facsimiles & commentary)
(1200-1809; Finnish & Swedish transcriptions and English translations.)
A searchable database of documents on the Swedish East Indian Company.
From the holdings of the Gothenburg university library.
(1731-1813; facsimiles)
(1565-1945; Swedish transcriptions)
A collection of contemporary documents and lists.
Swedish royal and regents, plus other historical persons:
Biographical and genealogical data in Swedish only.
Alphabetically or geographically searchable -- 35 generations, approx. 1700 persons
(Tenth to twentieth centuries; Swedish-language transcriptions and images)
Map of the Kingdom of Sweden towards the end of the 18th century.
(1797; zoomable map)
Map of the kingdoms of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden around the beginning of the 18th century.
(Circa 1700; zoomable map)
One of the earliest maps of the Scandinavian peninsula.
(1572; zoomable map)
Includes primary and secondary documents, provided by Don Mabry.
(Transcriptions, facsimiles and commentaries, mostly in English)
From the Swedish War Archives.
(Transcriptions, photographs and Swedish-language annotations)
Letters in the Uppsala Regional Archives:
(17th-20th centuries; facsimiles
(17th-20th centuries; facsimiles
(1707-1926; facsimiles).
(For most of the above letters, click on lower right corner a second time for enlargement icon.)
A demographic database unifying archival holdings in national and regional archives.
Folk censuses, parish registers, and other vital statistics.
(17th-20th centuries; searchable vital statistics)
Demographic Database of Southern Sweden.
A searchable compendium of vital statistics.
Limited to the counties of Scania and Blekinge.
Also available with an English-language interface.
(17th-19th centuries; searchable vital statistics)
A growing source for photos of historical sites in Sweden, searchable by area, type of site, and age of site.
(Prehistoric to present; photos)
(Facsimiles)

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