All the transactions recorded in the Third Book are supposed to have taken place on the evening and night preceding the annual festival of Dalecarlia, a day so memorable in Swedish history.
364.
And icy Meler blush'd with civil gore.
A most bloody engagement took place in 1464, on the lake Meler, when frozen over, between Bishop Catil and the partizans of the twice deposed Canutson. The Bishop was victorious.
371.
Suante.
See the account of Steen Sture, in the note on line 15 of the First Book.
406.
His patriot spirit entered in my breast.
My precedent for this is Lucan, who says of the soul of Pompey,