ABSTRACT
WHEN his election as archbishop had been confirmed, the peoples in far-off regions 1 tried with wholehearted eagerness to demonstrate all kinds of obedience and friendliness, 2 but he still strove in every way to surpass their goodwill with his own, so that they might all acknowledge him as the pattern of that true shepherd who knows and feeds his sheep. The amends which people, according to divine law, were accustomed to offer the high priest to atone for their sins, he generously paid out for the needs of the poor, and also aided those who were brought low by loss of their possessions through fire and those who were otherwise oppressed through the ferocity of tyrants. Moreover, to those who suffered intolerably from a lack of salt he not only taught the art of decocting it, a skill he had acquired during his studies abroad, but he also had saltworks and evaporating pans set up on the shores of the sea without any profit to himself, paying out towards this beneficial and needful practice a sum equivalent to 1000 marks of good money.
Kindness of Joh. Magnus, archbishop of Uppsala
From fines he bestows money on the distressed
Finding of salt
Gift of saltpans
