. 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 . 69 W m s 70 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. Gothic king;Upsala seat ofWodin. the smaa-kong-ar of whom we havealready spoken, a mere chieftain, whoseCharacter of influence on the generalcourse of affairs, evenamong his own people, wasso slight as to be almost the king rose toward the re-gion of monarchy as that instit
. 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 . 69 W m s 70 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. Gothic king;Upsala seat ofWodin. the smaa-kong-ar of whom we havealready spoken, a mere chieftain, whoseCharacter of influence on the generalcourse of affairs, evenamong his own people, wasso slight as to be almost the king rose toward the re-gion of monarchy as that institution isunderstood in our ages. At the earliesttimes to which our acquaintance extendsin Sweden there was a King of Upsala,who was a kind of over-sovereign tothe smaa-kongar. It is thought that ditions, and the Gota as well as theSvea were bound to the common wor-ship, the Swedish center of which wasat Upsala. At our earliest acquaintance with theraces inhabiting Sweden we fmd theGoths the most enterprising condition andand active. Their most ^.T^Ttn^ districts were on ish Goths,the borders of the Baltic and among theislands, the principal of which is to thepresent day known as Gothland. Theyhad the same social organization as most. SCENE IX GOTHLAND. his superiority might be traced to thefact that Upsala was the center of theworship of Wodin, and that the great tem-ple of that city stood as the representa-tive of the religion of the race. In thisconnection we should remember thatWodin, in the Norse sense, was a demi-god, a sort of ancestral hero as well asone of the deities immortal. Upsalawas a Swedish city; that is, a city of theSvea as distinguished from the a very early age, no doubt, both ofthese peoples had descended from acommon stock. They had common tra- of the other primitive Teutonic were freemen and thralls, or is believed, however, that serfdom wasa less important consideration in the lifeot ancient Sweden than in some oth
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