STRANGE SWEDISH ROMANCE
petrified body of miner.
LOVE STORY OF 1677 RECALLED.
■By'Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. .’■?.. i London, Dec. 19.
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 the deep shaft of the Falun copper mine. He never returned. Hilf 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 hot married and recognised the immediately? The petrified body has since been kept in a glass .coffin in 'the Mining Museum. Metts was the . subject of scores, of Swedish .poems, and. stories. • llvI Iv- v Z--- rt :
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Taranaki Daily News, 22 December 1930, Page 11
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