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well it's quite strange actually yes. Some say that sweden wasn't really a kingdom before gustav vasa but rather a loose grouping of powerful nobility with family ties in which the most favored in the family were chosen king for lifetime while others say that it was indeed a kingdom but that the king himself wasn't very powerful but relied on the nobility to do the military campaigns while he took care of the more peaceful matters at home and another group say that sweden was like any traditional kingdom, however this debate isn't going anywhere and everyone think what they want and since no one teach history of that time anyway were not likely to come to a conclusion at all.
As i said before if you're not fully awake in history class you might get the view of sweden as the area from which the vikings just popped out from and that finland was just a big forest until the vikings came and built villages there and in a decade the vikings turned from barbarous pagans into civilized christians after which history just fast forwarded to the 16th century and gustav vasas fight against the danes.
Seriously had not history been one of my topics of interest i would have had no idea what happened during those 400 years they just skipped in history class, it's as if swedish historians are ashamed of what happened during those years and rather would leave history unknown than educate us about our past which makes no sense if you consider that they used three full months to make sure everyone kept a critical mindset about what is written in the books, analysis on the topic is almost impossible without reading literature specially written about it.
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