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[[underline]] Sweden. [[/underline]] Historians say that Sweden was sooner Peopled than any Part of Europe--One of them Johannes Magnus relates that Magog Son of Jophet & Grandson of Noah was the founder of the Swedish and Gothick Nation; and that they took their names, from Sweno and Gothar on Gog his two Sons The Famous Othian on Woden being about sixty years before the Birth of Christ, driven by Pompey, with a great number of People out of Asia he subdued the Russians, Saxons, and Danes & afterwards made himself Master of Norway & Sweden--He kept only Sweden for himself but all the Scandinavian Princes were obliged to do him Homage--And hence came a Custom which lasted many Years that, at an Assembly of the States General of this Country, the King of Denmark held the Bridle, and the King of Norway the Stermess while the King of Sweden mounted his Horse--In the Year of Christ 829 a Bishop
