Sweden, or the Kingdom of the Swedes

They enumerate twenty-five kings of Sweden, from whom Haldan Hvitben drew his origin, who, deriving his maternal lineage from a certain Solvo, a petty king of Norway, succeeded him in the rule of his domain, and afterward, having subdued many provinces, handed down an enlarged kingdom to his heirs; the great-grandson of whom, Harald Fairhair, having driven away and defeated all the petty kings of Norway, was the first to establish a monarchy there, as the ancient Chronicle of Norway testifies, published in Denmark by Master Johannes Martini Slangerupensis in the year 1594.

The government of the kingdom of Sweden was most happily administered for many centuries by indigenous and native kings, until Magnus Erichson (otherwise nicknamed Smeck), King of Sweden and Norway and Lord of Scania, neglecting the duty of ruling, gave himself over to pleasures and sloth. The nobles, weary of his rule, summoned Albert, Duke of Mecklenburg, his nephew through his sister, to take the reins of government against him. But after Albert had filled the kingdom with Germans, to whom he entrusted the whole hinge of affairs, and had imposed upon the Swedes the necessity of obeying them, many of the nobles