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...studied at Uppsala for 20 years-at Aunt Hildur's private school, where he learned the three Rs and collected bugs in a bottle; at the sternly classical high school, where one of his classmates was Jarl Hjalmarson, now the leader of the Swedish Conservative Party. At Uppsala University Dag took a B.A., majoring in philosophy and French literature. He is also a bachelor of laws and a doctor of economics. Dag was a brilliant scholar; he had little time for social life. In his 205, he wrote a paper called Konjunktur-spridningen (The Spread of the Business Cycle...
...Historic Gamle† Oslo was founded by potent Harold Haardraada about 1050, and petite Princess Martha comes to reign-eventually-over a proud little city which was already old when her own rich and extensive Stockholm was founded upon mud flats and granite in 1255 by Birger, Jarl (Earl) of Bjelbo. Last week, on the very site of the Jarl's first great hall, in a palace blazing with made-in-Sweden light bulbs, the preliminary, pre-nuptial ball was given by Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden. Over from Oslo for this event dashed Norway's spruce...
...second act of the play is laid on the North American coast in the early fall of the year 1001. The Indians see the Viking ship approaching. It draws near, and Leif, who with Tyrker, Sigurd and a crew of Vikings, has sailed from the village of Magnus Jarl in Norway to seek America, comes to the shore. At the invitation of Po-ko hokit, Leif and Tyrker go to see the Indian village...
...Toburn, a Chicago wheat king, becomes interested and wishes to obtain Leif as a husband for his niece. Leif insists that he is engaged to the Norwegian Sylvia, daughter of Magnus Jarl, but he is told that she has been dead nearly nine hundred years. The Duke of Dedbroke, who wishes to wed Sylvia Dukehunter, causes a great deal of trouble, but finally, with the aid of Arnstormer, the Duke is thwarted and the young lady is betrothed to Leif...
Leif asks aid of Minna, the prophetess, that he may gain the Jarl's consent to his suit. Accordingly Minna tells Magnus that his daughter must marry Leif. Magnus does not dare to thwart the decree of the prophetness and accepts Leif as Sylvia's lover. The Jarl then buys Bjarne's ship and the act closes as Leif sets sail across the Atlantic. Sigurd goes with him, hoping that he can cause the crew to mutiny, kill Leif, and return to win Sylvia...