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44: 36: 138: 299: 28: 237:), including the Geatish provinces. It was thus a sort of federation where the king started with his election at Mora Thing and then travelled throughout the kingdom to have the election confirmed by the local assemblies. Beginning in 1362 also representatives from Finland took part in the election. 201:
The detail that the Swedes were not only entitled to elect their king, but that they also had the right to depose him was institutionalized a long time before, as attested by Snorri Sturlason's (died 1241) accounts of Swedish history (the speech of
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referring to a stone on which the newly elected king stood after his election. With later monuments in stone commemorating different elections, the name changed to the plural form.
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The Stone of Mora and many stones which flanked it with inscriptions commemorating the elections of earlier kings, were probably destroyed in 1515 during the civil war against the
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of Uppland and then by all his subordinate lawspeakers in the rest of the kingdom, one by one.
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The building where the fragments are now contained was constructed by local military officer
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The newly elected king also had to go on a traditional journey around Sweden (
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Mora sten och Mora stenar: en vägledning till ett märkligt nationalmonument
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are said to have tried to reconstruct the Stones of Mora without success.
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Finnish commemorative stamp from 1962 featuring Stones of Mora
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The creation of a Scandinavian provincial law: how was it done
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The Stones of Mora were originally named in singular as
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The building which contains the remaining fragments
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Fragments of commemorative stones from the monument
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Stone of Mora



Swedish
Knivsta
Uppsala
Knivsta Municipality
Uppsala
Mora
Things
folklands
Attundaland
Tiundaland
Thing

law of Uppland
Södermanland
folklands
Tiundaland
Attundaland
Fjärdhundraland
lawspeaker
Westrogothic law
Geats
Swedes
Torgny the Lawspeaker
Domalde
Egil
Aun

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