Well, I'll make a note about the map too. First a little map, you'll have to copy the link as brinkster refuse direct linking:
Code:
www10.brinkster.com/styrbiorns/sverige.gif
Description: gray lines are modern Län border, red are the old ones (as of 1200). The lines are drawn after maps and descriptions (ie the border went through that hill to that mountain etc).
J is for Jamtaland, R for Ravund (after the 1600s known as Ragunda) and H for Herjeaadalen. I used the old and correct spellings, if you didn't notice
Note that the borders of Härjedalen is late Medievel ones (before that the name only refered to a part of it).
Härjedalen was a part of Norway, sent a representant to the elections of the king etc, while Jämtland was an independent republic up to 1178, when it became an autonomous vassal within the Norwegian realm. Ragunda was a part of the Swedish colonized Hälsingland.
And of course, the seal of Jämtland from 1274:
And lastly, whatever you do, don't spell Jamtland with an 'ä'
