Hero tales of the far North
By: by Jacob A. Riis.
Publisher: The Macmillan Co.
Published: 1910
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
Subjects: Scandinavia -- History.
Table of contents: title: A knight errant of the sea [Tordenakjold] - Hans Egede, the apostle to Greenland. - Gustav Vasa, the father of Sweden. - Absalon, warrior bishop of the North. - King Valdemar, and the story of the Dannebrog. - How the ghost of the heath was laid. - King Christian IV. - Gustav Adolf, the snow-king. - King and sailor, heroes of Copenhagen. - The trooper who won a war alone [Jens Kofoed] - Carl Linné, king of the flowers. - Niels Finsen, the wolfslayer.