Lions in Leonkopung

Gustav II Adolf/Gustavus Adolphus II/"Gustav Adolphus the Great" (everyone they have titled "the great" has been an empire builder on behalf of them and their goals) "The Lion from the North"/"The Lion King"/"The Golden King"/"The Snow King"/"The father of modern warfare"/ Gustav II Adolf is considered to be uncomparable as the most skilled military leader of the Thiry Year's War. A genious military strategy who was admired by Napoleon, Carl von Clausewitz and Hitler.  Young Lion King.  Adult Fat cat:  "The city shall stand here". Gustavus founded Gothenburg, Sweden's second largest city on the opposite coast of Stockholm. Gustav II Adolf statue, on Gustav Adolf's square in the heart of Stockholm During his reign, Sweden rose from the status of a  Baltic Sea  basin regional power to one of the  great powers  of Europe and a model of  early modern era

I used to, like so many other Swedes, call Sweden by "her" nickname "Mother Svea". I no longer will. You who gets why, gets why. Despite being from and having lived most of my life in Linköping/Leonkopung/Lionborough, I had never seen this statue or heard of the park where it's at, until I googled "Mother" Svea. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Svea Mother Svea in Berga, Linköping. The t ext below the statue reads "On guard/watch for the mother country" "Mother Svea is normally depicted as a powerful female warrior, valkyrie or shieldmaiden, frequently holding a shield and standing beside a lion. Svea is a Swedish female personal name which derives from svea, an old plural genitive form meaning "of the Swedes" or the Swea. It appears in Svea rike, a translation of the old Swedish word Sverige, the Swedish name for Sweden. The popular image is considered to have been created by Swedish writer, Anders Leijo