SWEDISH LOVE STORY
TRAGEDY OF 1677 BURIAL OF PRESERVED BODY Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, December 19. (Received December 20, at 10.30 a.m.) A tragic love story of 1677 is recalled by the burial in Falun (Sweden) Churchyard to-day of a miner named Metis. In 1677 Metis, despite the entreaties of his sweetheart, descended the deep shaft of tlie Falun .copper mine. He never returned. Half a century later his body, which had been preserved in its youthful appearance by the vitriolic waters, was recovered. His fiancee, true ~to his memory, had not married, and r recognised the corpse immediately. The petrified body has since been kept in a glass-covered coffin in the mining museum. Metts, was the subieW of scores of Swedish poems and stories.
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Evening Star, Issue 20672, 20 December 1930, Page 17
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125SWEDISH LOVE STORY Evening Star, Issue 20672, 20 December 1930, Page 17
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