Throne of a Thousand Years
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Throne of a Thousand Years is a non-fiction
Non-fiction
Non-fiction is the form of any narrative, account, or other communicative work whose assertions and descriptions are understood to be fact...

 book, written by Jacob Truedson Demitz
Jacob Truedson Demitz
Jacob Truedson Demitz is a Swedish-American writer and entertainment director known for his 1996 book about Scandinavian kings and, as Lars Jacob, for hundreds of cabaret shows in the United States and Europe from 1972 to 2004...

 and published in 1996, and is the first English-language historical account of the kings and queens of Sweden.

It details their personal histories, the impact of their reigns on Scandinavia
Scandinavia
Scandinavia is a cultural, historical and ethno-linguistic region in northern Europe that includes the three kingdoms of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, characterized by their common ethno-cultural heritage and language. Modern Norway and Sweden proper are situated on the Scandinavian Peninsula,...

n history, and the political implications of disclosed dynastic ties in Europe.

Sponsored mainly by Ericsson
Ericsson
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, ABB and the Swedish Postal Service, the account was published by Ristesson Ent in Ludvika
Ludvika
Ludvika is a bimunicipal locality and the seat of Ludvika Municipality, Dalarna County, Sweden, with 14,018 inhabitants in 2005.-Overview:The conurbation of Ludvika extends over the border of Smedjebacken Municipality, where about 400 inhabitants live....

 and Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
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. A fictional chronicler called Erik, Son of Riste relates the factual story, which is followed by fact boxes about each of the 66 monarchs covered and a number of ancestry charts. Illustrations (if not otherwise noted in the book) are portrait drawings by the author made from the 1960s to the 1990s, and 3 differently sorted lists of persons are included as well as an appended text rendition in Swedish
Swedish language
Swedish is a North Germanic language, spoken by approximately 10 million people, predominantly in Sweden and parts of Finland, especially along its coast and on the Åland islands. It is largely mutually intelligible with Norwegian and Danish...

.

There is a nine-page list of bibliography
Bibliography
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 on pages 181-189.

Reception

Throne of a Thousand Years was particularly praised by Dala-Demokraten for its English-language name forms, exonyms for pre-20th-century Swedish royalty, and a "refreshing" lack of nationalism, and by Nya Ludvika Tidning
Nya Ludvika Tidning
Nya Ludvika Tidning is a local Swedish daily newspaper with distribution in Ludvika and Smedjebacken municipalities. It has a circulation of 9,100 copies , according to Tidningsstatistik AB.In February 2002 it was purchased by Dalarnas Tidningar....

for its general interest and for easy access to hard-to-find facts.
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