. With the world's people : an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social evolution, and present conditions and promise of the principal families of men : together with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning . terature. Up to that epochwhatever sorties her bards and chron-iclers had made into the domain of let-ters had been after the Danish manner. Even after the union of the threecrowns the rise of a distinctive Norwe-gian literature was slow. Norwegian Uter-In 1814 the political inde- ^;ru„t«„%,pendence of Norway was
. With the world's people : an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social evolution, and present conditions and promise of the principal families of men : together with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning . terature. Up to that epochwhatever sorties her bards and chron-iclers had made into the domain of let-ters had been after the Danish manner. Even after the union of the threecrowns the rise of a distinctive Norwe-gian literature was slow. Norwegian Uter-In 1814 the political inde- ^;ru„t«„%,pendence of Norway was , and the national records werehenceforth in the forms of the nationalspeech. Three years before this eventthe University of Christiania had beenestablished, and the popular languagewas substituted for the Danish in in-struction. Soon after a group of writersarose who treated economic, legal, andphilosophical subjects from a nationalpoint of view, employing the nationallanguage in the exposition of their vari-ous themes. The Eddas were publishedin Norwegian, and the nation becameproud of its achievement and of its rankamong the intellectual peoples of North-ern Europe. A measure of this literarypride remains to the present day. Chapter XCIII.—The E now turn to the re-maining peninsularScandinavian people—the Swedes. In theearliest ages withwhich we are acquaint-ed there were two dis-tinctive branches of the Swedish race,the Southern Gota, or Goths, and theNorthern vSvea, or vSwedes. The eth-nic nomenclature is still preserved, thesouthern portion of iSweden being calledGothland, the central portion vSveda-land, the north central Norrland,while the extreme northis called Lapland. Wehave already seen, in thegeneral survey of the progress of theTeutonic race into this region, that the Primitive dis-tribution andnomenclature ofthe Swedes. Lapps and Finns fell back before theGermanic van. The Gota and the Sveawere both Teutonic, being discriminatedbut little from e
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