The Baptists in Sweden. By Mrs. M.F. Anderson ...

CHAPTER VIII.
DALECARLIA.
A PECULTAR interest attaches itself to the province of Dalecarlia, or Dalarna, as it is often called.
Here the heroic Gustavus Wasa, in the disguise of
an humble peasant, sought a secure retreat after
the massacre at Stockholm, in which his father and
nearly one hundred of the principal nobles of Sweden were slain by command of the sanguinary Christian. In the Dalecarlian mines Gustavus labored
for his daily bread, awaiting the time when he
might rise and rescue his country from the yoke of
the oppressor. Yet even this lowly occupation
and humble disguise was insufficient for his concealment.
A woman with whom he lodged noticed the embroidery on the collars of his under garments, and
soon it was whispered through the mine, and in the
village, that their fellow-workman was a noble in
disguise. The rumor reached the ears of Rankhitta, the lord of the mines. He at once visited
the mines, and quickly recognized Gustavus, who
had been his fellow-student at the University of
Upsala. He generously invited him to his house.
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