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The Freebooter of the Baltic

novel by Viktor Rydberg

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 14, 2025
Entity authorityQ7735214 ↗
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The Freebooter of the Baltic (Swedish: Fribytaren på Östersjön, 1857) is an early novel by the Swedish romantic novelist Viktor Rydberg. The adventure is set in 17th century Sweden and is a swashbuckling tale of piracy on the high seas, with political overtones. Several historical people are portrayed in the book, such as Bengt Skytte, Maria Skytte, Christina Anna Skytte and Gustav Skytte.

The novel was translated into English by Caroline L. Broomall in 1891.

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The public source identifies “The Freebooter of the Baltic” as novel by Viktor Rydberg. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Freebooter, Baltic and novel.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1857, 1891—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Freebooter, Baltic and novel providing the first useful test.
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Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 14, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q7735214. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1857 and 1891.

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This entry incorporates text from “The Freebooter of the Baltic” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.