[kempe]

It was not a big deal in Sweden. The government was acting fast to quarantine the areas. Mostly only children bellow 14 died. A few years later however most families had new children. All in all it was not a big deal for that point in time. Remember that back in those days most people had more children per person and death was a larger part of life than now.

[frozenport]

This isn't true:

>>In the middle of the 14th century, Sweden was struck by the Black Death.[28] The population of Sweden and most of Europe was seriously decimated. And the population (at same territory) as existed by 1348 did not reach the same numbers again until the beginning of the 19th century. One third of the population died during 1349–1351.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden [2] http://staff.harrisonburg.k12.va.us/~cwalton/walton/SOLPics/...

[kempe]

You are wrong. Read Olle Larsson and Andreas Marklunds book Svensk Historia. http://www.bokus.com/bok/9789175452531/svensk-historia/

[BorisVSchmid]

Authors can be wrong in interpreting the available (or lack of available) information. According to Ole Benedictow, there is little or no surviving records of plague in Sweden, but I would be curious to know why Larsson and Marklunds interpret that as that there was little plague there?

Ole Benedictow's chapter on Sweden (mainly discussing the lack of evidence, except for church donations) https://books.google.no/books?id=ZtjwPOB7aMkC&pg=PA170&dq=%2...

Stockholm in 1710-1711 had no problem in being rather brutally infected, with at its peak 1500 burials per week.

The Last plague in the Baltic Region from Frandsen: https://books.google.no/books?id=F3bNWrVRMb8C&pg=PA65&dq=%22...

[kempe]

True. Also I'm not saying people didnt die. But from what I've read, it was not such a huge deal as it has been painted out to be in Sweden. Remember, health care back in those days meant people died from all sorts of things. Perhaps there is a lack of information or it simply was not a big deal. Different people are also more or less sensitive to different bacteria and viruses.