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Lund

2 of the 7 encyclopedias on this shelf carry an entry for Lund. Both are reproduced below, so you can see where they agree and where they differ.

Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)

a city of Gothland, in the extreme S. of Sweden, 374 miles S. W. of Stockholm and 10 N. E. of Malmö. The principal building is the fine Romanesque cathedral, dating from the 11th century, with an imposing crypt. Lund owes its revival to the founding of a university in 1668 by Charles XI. It was attended in 1911 by 1,405 students, and has a library of 120,000 volumes and 3,000 MSS., an excellent zoological museum, and a botanic garden. Tegnér was a professor from 1813 to 1826, and here he composed his masterpiece "Frithjof." In the 10th century Lund was a large and powerful city, was made a bishopric in 1048, and an archbishopric in 1104. The archbishop claimed ecclesiastical supremacy over the whole of Scandinavia. At the same period Lund was the chief seat of the Danish power in the Scandinavian peninsula, and for a long period the capital of the Danish kingdom; at the epoch of its greatest prosperity it is said to have had 200,000 inhabitants. But after the introduction of the Reformation by Christian III. in 1536, the city began to decline, and had sunk down to a mere village before the . Pop. about end of the 17th century 20,000.

Aiton's Encyclopedia (1910)

a historic city of Sweden. It is situated about eight miles inland in the laen of Malmo, twenty-three miles by water and land east of Copenhagen. There are about 20,000 inhabitants. The surrounding country is agricultural. Glove-making and foundry work are important local industries. Lund is a city of interesting historic associations. It is the Londinum of the Goths. Medieval kings of Scandia were elected on a hill in the vicinity. The cathedral of Lund, a Romanesque structure recently restored, has been pronounced the finest specimen of ecclesiastical architecture in Scandinavia. The University, attended by 700 students, has modern buildings, a museum, and a library of 180,000 volumes. The poet Tegner was a professor at Lund. A statue has been erected in his memory.