Black Death in Sweden
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The Black Death (Swedish: Digerdöden, 'The Great Death') was present in Sweden between 1350 and 1351.[1] It was a major catastrophe which was said to have killed a third of the population, and Sweden was not to recover fully for three hundred years.
The Black Death in Sweden is only mentioned directly in few contemporary documents; in a letter from the king, in a sermon by Saint Bridget of Sweden, in a letter from the city council in Visby to their colleagues in Lübeck, and in a letter from the Pope, replying to a letter from the Swedish king.[1] There is, however, indirect contemporary information, as well as later descriptions of it.