The universal geography : earth and its inhabitants

SWEDISH TOWNS. 133one of the thirteen hundred islands of Lake Miliar the vast palace of Drottningsholm,with an interesting picture gallery. West of it stands the Gripsholm Castle,associated with many stirring events, and containing an historical museumresembling that of Versailles.Xorth of Stiiket Sound a house marks the site of the old Sigtuna, where,according to the legend, the Chief Sigge caused himself to be proclaimed a god,Fig. 70. Cathedral of Upsala.and raised a temple to himself, the first built by the Svear after settling in theseregions. Still farther north is shown the unfinished but magnificent castle ofSkokloster, with a fine armory and a library. From this point a winding fiord30 miles long leads north to the river Fyris at Upsala, 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 moderntown, nothing remains except a little church, said to stand on the foundations of a