MAGNI, Olaus. _Historia de gentibus Septentrionalibus, earumque diuersis statibus, conditionibus, moribus, ritibus, superstitionibus, disciplinis, exercitiis, regimine, uictu, bellis, fructuris, instrumentis, ac mineris metallicis, et rebus mirabilibus, necnon uniuersis pene animalibus in Septentrione degentibus, eorumque natura._ Romae, 1555. 6^o.
Author was a brother of Archbishop Johannes Magni. Born in 1490, travelled through the northern portions of Scandinavia in 1518 and 1519 on a papal mission. As a canon of Upsala and Linköping was employed by Gustavus Vasa in several missions, being sent to Rome in 1523 to obtain papal confirmation of his brother's election to the archbishopric. After his brother's disgrace he followed him, as his secretary, to Rome, and at his brother's death was appointed archbishop of Upsala by the pope, but never attempted to assert his right. Died in Rome in 1558. He was a man of remarkable memory, and possessed strong powers of observation; but he lacked his brother's even temper. His _Hist. de gent. Sept._ is one of the most singular books ever written. It is an encyclopædia of Sweden in the sixteenth century; and though filled with errors and barefaced exaggerations, is invaluable to any student of Swedish history.
MAGNI, Johannes. _Historia pontificum metropolitanae ecclesiae Upsaliensis in regnis Suetiae et Gothiae._ [In _Scriptores rerum Suecicarum_, vol. iii. sect. 2, pp. 5-97.]
This work was first printed at Rome in 1557, with a preface by Olaus Magni. Reprinted at Rome in 1560.
PETRI, Laurentius. _Then Svenska chrönikan._ [In _Scriptores rerum Suecicarum_, vol. ii. sect. 2, pp. 3-151.]
Born 1499, died 1573. First Protestant archbishop of Sweden, and brother of Olaus Petri. Lacked his brother's eloquence, but surpassed him and indeed all men of his time as a writer of Swedish prose. This work is nothing but his brother's _Svenska krönika_, wholly revised, with the omission of certain manifest errors. Like his brother's work, it runs only to the year 1521, and is believed to have been completed about 1559.
SVANING, Hans. _Refutatio calumniarum cuiusdam Ioannis Magni Gothi Upsalensis, quibus in historia sua ac famosa oratione Danicam gentem incensit._ 1560. 4^o.