the basis of a decision taken in 1846. Slavery was legislated in Saint-Barthélemy under the Ordinance concerning the Police of Slaves and free Coloured People dated 30 July 1787, original in French dated 30 June 1787. The last legally owned slaves in the Swedish colony of Saint-Barthélemy were bought and freed by the Swedish state on October 9, 1847. Slaves in Sweden the Migration period Early Swedish history is clouded in mystery and the sources are therefore subjected to much scrutiny and especially the trustworthiness of the Icelandic sagas is in doubt. Because the Swedish monarchs mentioned by foreign sources do not correlate with the monarchs mentioned by Icelandic Sagas. The Swedish king Ongentheow sometimes in Beowulf saga named Angan-Tys which seems to be another version of the name Týs öttungr another word for Eadgils for the same Swedish king Eadgils mentioned in Ynglinga Saga. 500 AD however is mentioned in the Anglo-Saxon poem Widsith describing other known historical Germanic rulers from 500 AD. According to the Icelandic sagas a slave revolt led by the slave Tunne lead to the Swedish king Eadgils getting deposed and forced to flee to the Danes (Germanic tribe). Tunne was the slave responsible for the guard of the royal treasury and weaponry. The Swedish Weaponry was guarded by a slave as mentioned by the Roman historian Tacitus. Later according to the saga crowning himself king of Svitjod. The Swedes probably took the weapons from the royal weaponry forcing the royals and nobles to unbury their ancestors swords and helmets buried close to Gamla Uppsala to fight the slaves and Tunne used the weapons from the royal weaponry to defeat the Swedish army in several battles. The mounds from 500 AD lack weapons in archaeological examinations supporting the story that the slaves or royals took weapons from the grave tumulus to support their rebellion. Later with the help of Danish soldiers, the slave uprising was crushed. Tunne most likely came from the Northlands as the name Tunne is only found on Runestones in the Swedish Northlands. Slaves in the Medieval period in Sweden Slavery was common in the Viking age period and one of the main reasons for the Viking expansion was the search for slaves in other countries. One of the reasons Kievan Rus came to be was that Scandinavian settlers established themselves and traded with captured slaves. Thralls could have some social mobility