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one of the thirteen hundred islands of Lake Malar the vast palace of Drottnings- 

 holm, with an interesting picture gallery. West of it stands the Gripsholm Castle, 

 associated with many stirring events, and containing an historical museum 

 resembling that of Versailles. 



North of Stiiket Sound a house marks tlie site of the old Sigtuna, where, 

 according to the legend, the Chief Sigge caused himself to be proclaimed a god, 



Fiff. 70. — Cathedral of Upsala. 



and raised a temi^le to himself, the first built by the Svear after settling in these 

 reo-ions. Still farther north is shown the unfinished but magnificent castle of 

 Skokloster, with a fine armory and a library. From this point a winding fiord 

 30 miles long leads north to the river Fyris at Ujmila, one of the former capitals, 

 and in pagan times the " High Hall," or Walhalla, of the Scandinavian gods. 

 But of the Gamla-Upsala, or old town of Odin, which lay north of the modern 

 town, nothing remains except a little church, said to stand on the foundations of a 



