The Swedish Nation in Word and Picture - H Lundborg

Excerpt from The Swedish Nation in Word and Picture: Together With Short Summaries of the Contributions by Swedes Within the Fields of Anthropology, Race-Biology, Genetics and Eugenics
Amongst Other Precious Relics, Which Have Been preserved to the present day from the time of the sumptuous Erik XIV, is a valuable tapestry. This shows a life-size representation of the first king of Sweden, according to a Latin inscription. The name of the king is Sven, as one would expect of the progenitor of the Swedes; he was the son of Magog, whom we recognize from the First Book of Moses, as a son of Japhet, and a grandson of Noah.
The tapestry is an illustration of The History of the Gotar and the Svear, published at that time by Archbishop Johannes Magni, according to whom Magog was the first king of the Gotar (Goths), and his son Sven the first king of the Svear. Ubbe, the brother of Sven, succeeded him about 246 years after the Deluge, and built the city of Upsala, according to the Archbishop's history.
The question regarding our forefathers immigration to the North was, 400 years ago, easily responded to, and the answer was very satisfactory: our fore fathers arrived here immediately after the Deluge.
Towards the end of the 17th century, when Sweden was at the height of her political power, this date was not ancient enough for the Swedish people. Olof Rudbeck in the Atlantica informed his delighted contemporaries, that the Swedish peninsula was peopled before the Deluge, and that even then, the inhabitants of Sweden were in a high state of culture. After the Deluge, Japhet ssons Magog and Mesek came to the North. The former founded in Sweden the ancient Gothic, and the latter in Finland, the Finnish Empire. Magog's realm was divided bet ween his sons Sven and Getar, who founded the Svea and Gothic Empires.
We must not forget that this belief was advanced quite seriously, and proof thereof was developed with all the wisdom, invention, and ingenuity, which distinguished Olof Rudbeck, one of the mightiest and most esteemed figures we meet with in the history of Swedish science. The doctrines of the Atlantica delighted both king and people. To deny their truth, was looked upon as a crime against our native country, and the few doubters were compelled to silence by the fear of Charles XI, and Magnus de la Gardie.
The foregoing remarks formed the introduction to an article I published in the first number of the Nordisk Tidskrift for 1884 in which I attempted, as well as I could at that time, to solve the problem: Of the immigration of our forefathers to the North.
I showed that our Germanic forefathers lived in Scandinavia as far back as the later Stone Age, thus about 5, 000 years ago. The grounds for this statement were principally two.
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