Uppsala Cathedral
Another bell, now called Thornan, was taken from ToruĊ as war booty in 1703 by Swedish forces of Carl XII during the Great Northern War. It hangs in the northern tower of Uppsala Cathedral, having replaced bells destroyed in the Uppsala Fire of 1702.
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