TRAGIC LOVE STORY
THEME OF SWEDISH POETS} EPISODE OF LONG AGO (Received 20th December, 10 a.m.) LONDON, 19th December. A tragic love story of 1677 is recalled by the burial in Falun (Sweden) Churchyard to-day of a miner named Metts. In 1677 Metts, despite the entreaties of his sweetheart, descended into the deep shaft of the Falun copper mine and never returned. Half a century later, his body, preserved in youthful appearance by the chemical action of the waters, was recovered. His fiance, true to his memory, had noi married, and recognised the corpsa immediately. Tho petrified body has since been kept in a glass-covered coffin in the Mining Museum. Metts was tho subject of scores «f Swedish poems and stories.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 148, 20 December 1930, Page 9
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121TRAGIC LOVE STORY Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 148, 20 December 1930, Page 9
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