teenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries.

STEGMANN, Bernt. _Hanseatische Chronik._ [In _Scriptores rerum
Prussicarum_, ed. T. Hirsch, M. Toeppen, and E. Strehlke. Leipz.,
1861-1874. 5 vols. 8^o. vol. v. pp. 492-528.]

This chronicle runs to the year 1525. It was probably collected by
Stegmann, a Dantzic burgher of the time of Gustavus, but it seems not to
have been written by him. It is in Low German. Pages 517-528 give the
story of Christiern's cruelties in Sweden, which the writer denounces in
unmeasured terms.

ZIEGLER, Jacob. _Crudelitas Christierni Secundi._ [In _Scriptores rerum
Suecicarum_, vol. iii. sect. 1, pp. 71-77.]

This description of the carnage of 1520 was written at some period
between that year and 1531.

_Chronicon episcoporum Arosiensium._ [In _Scriptores rerum Suecicarum_,
vol. iii. sect. 2, pp. 120-128.]

This consists of some extracts made by Peder Svart from a rhythmic Latin
chronicle of an unknown author. It runs to 1534.

ELIESEN, Povel. _Chronicon Skibyensis._ [In _Scriptorum rerum Danicarum
medii aeui_, ed. J. Langebek. Hafniae, 1772-1878. 9 vols. f^o. vol. ii.
pp. 554-602.]

This chronicle was written by Eliesen in the years 1519-1534, closing
abruptly with the year 1534, though it has been continued by a later
hand to the year 1555. The MS. was found in 1650, in the church at Skiby
in Seeland. Eliesen was a Danish priest, a Catholic, and a vehement
opponent of Christiern II.

PETRI, Olaus. _Svenska kroenika_, ed. G. E. Klemming. Stockh., 1860. 8^o.

Born in 1497; died in 1552. Called the Luther of Sweden. Was a man of
determined character, great eloquence, and common sense. He wrote in a
strong, pure style, and with a critical judgment. His _Svenska kroenika_
is the first history of Sweden written in modern Swedish. It was
completed in 1534, but runs only to the year 1521. It awoke the
hostility of Gustavus because of its leniency to the old bishops and
clergy.

RENSEL, Clement. _Beraettelse hoerande till Konung Gustafs I.'s historia._
[In _Handlingar roerande Skandinaviens historia_. Stockh., 1816-1865. 41
vols. 8^o. vol. ii. pp. 13-54.]

A native of Livonia, came to Sweden in 1521 to enlist under the banner
of Gustavus. He writes like a blunt soldier who revels in the story of a
battle. His _Beraettelse_ seems to have been written for the king. It is
chiefly a chronicle of Swedish wars, running from 1518 to 1536. The
original MS. is in the University Library at Upsala, a