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A History of the Swedish People 1: From Prehistory to the Renaissance by Vilhelm Moberg; Paul Britten Austin is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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Moberg, a contemporary writer very popular in Sweden, wants to insert into history the Swedish comman man, the peasant, who for 5000 years has cleared that wooded, rocky, inhospitable land. But in this 1st of four volumes (which ends approximately 1400) the "samre folk," the lesser people, have barely a voice among the inchoate mass of anecdotes about nobles, kings & queens, Vikings, plagues, Christianity, villainy & feasts. For the life of the peasantry we must be satisfied to learn that "Medieval people lived out their lives without books or newspapers, without electric light...without telephone or telegraph" but they loved their hearth & found simple happiness in their prayers. Moberg claims he doesn't want to romanticize the peasant but nonetheless reveres him as "the last individualist left in our modern society." When it comes to historical explanation we learn that Viking plundering expeditions were caused by "sheer lust for heroic deeds; a longing for adventure; a dynamic spirit"; why the Nordic peoples suddenly became possessed with such thirst for action remains unsaid. The book--very personal, very idiosyncratic-- sometimes rises above its trivial ramblings & mawkish mor
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- Author
- Vilhelm Moberg; Paul Britten Austin
- Publisher
- Pantheon Books
- Published
- 1972
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780394481920
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Humanities
- Rating
- 4.8 / 5 (7 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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