Hero tales of the far North,
Title:
Hero tales of the far North,
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by Jacob A. Riis.
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Publication Information:
New York, Macmillan Co., 1910.
Physical Description:
xiv, 328 p. front., plates, ports. 20 cm.
Contents:
A knight errant of the sea [Tordenakjold] - Hans Egede, the apostle to Greenland. - Gustav Vasa, the father of Sweden. - Absalon, warrior bishop of the North. - King Valdemar, and the story of the Dannebrog. - How the ghost of the heath was laid. - King Christian IV. - Gustav Adolf, the snow-king. - King and sailor, heroes of Copenhagen. - The trooper who won a war alone [Jens Kofoed] - Carl Linné, king of the flowers. - Niels Finsen, the wolfslayer.