TRAGIC LOVE STORY
RECALLED BY RECOVERED BODY. [United Press Association—By CableCopyright.) (Received 20, 9.50 a.m.) London, Dec. 19. A tragic love story of 1677 is recalled by the burial in the Falun (Sweden) churchyard to-day of a miner named Metts. In 1677 Mett?, despite the entreaties of his sweetheart, descended the deep shaft of the Falun copper mine. He never returned. Half 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 not married, and recognised the corpse immediately. The petrified body has since been kept in a glass-covered coffin in the mining museum.
Metts wa? the subject of scores of Swedish poems and stories.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXI, Issue 8, 20 December 1930, Page 7
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121TRAGIC LOVE STORY Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXI, Issue 8, 20 December 1930, Page 7
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