Posted on 03/19/2023 6:40:54 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
Linköping, as Sweden broke free of Poland and of Catholicism.
Eighty years before, the Swedish Vasa dynasty had established itself by surviving one bloodbath. Now, it would set its greatest scion in line for the throne by inflicting another.
Sigismund was Sweden’s legitimate heir; he was also a characteristic product of dynastic intermarriage whose loyalties were splintered between fiefdoms. But most crucially of all, he had been raised Catholic in a realm turning decisively towards Protestantism.
Born of a Polish-Italian mother, he had secured the Polish-Lithuanian throne by election in 1589; when succession added suzerainty of Sweden, his realm was a personal union stretching across central Europe from the Arctic Circle to the Black Sea.
Which looked better on paper than it would work in practice.
The persecutory stage of the Catholic counter-reformation had been in full throat this past half-century, and the accession of a Catholic prince raised a Scandinavian alarm....
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I lived there once for a few months.
The city has a huge central steam plant which through pipes provides heat to the homes and businesses.
The ground reindeer was good, but almost fat free.
As a protestant, thank you for the information.
Linköping is where a Crime Lab is located...
Linköping: pronounced lin-CHIR-ping...
“The ground reindeer was good, but almost fat free.”
I was working out of Alaska for a few years and I used to get a lot of caribou meat. It had absolutely no flavor except the salt and pepper that I put on it. But you couldn’t ask for a cleaner more natural peace of flesh.
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