196 SUMMARY OF HIS AFTER-LIFE. 



fulness, and in company with the messengers lost no time in 

 retracing his steps. 



My story is now soon told. Were I to narrate all 

 Gustavus' after-exploits it would fill volumes ; suffice it 

 therefore to say, that the men of Mora and the adjoining 

 provinces received him on his return with reverence and 

 rejoicing ; that they swore fidelity to him, and placed several 

 hundred men at his disposal; that very many of the out- 

 lawed Swedish nobility and others, who had distinguished 

 themselves in the wars of the Stures, flocked to his standard, 

 and essentially aided him in drilling his little army, which 

 soon numbered about three thousand men ; that with this 

 small force he shortly afterwards commenced the campaign 

 against Christian ; that though he met with vicissitudes, he 

 eventually succeeded mainly through the instrumentality 

 of his faithful friends, the Dalecarlians in driving the 

 Tyrant out of his kingdom ; that by the unanimous con- 

 sent of the nation, the crown was placed on his own head ; 

 that the Reformation amongst other remarkable events, 

 was introduced into Sweden during his reign ; that he 

 ruled long and gloriously, and was gathered to his fathers 

 in a green old age ; and finally, that some of the most 

 extraordinary men the world has ever seen were numbered 

 amongst his successors. 



As we have followed Gustavus throughout his wanderings, 

 it may not be without interest to record the fate of his 

 bitter and implacable enemies, King Christian and Arch- 

 bishop Trolle. 



