Editing Ydre Municipality (section)

==History==
===Trolls, jättar and Christianization===
There are various tales of [[jötunn|jättar]] and [[troll]]s opposing the spread of Christianity in Ydre.<ref name=nykristet>{{cite book |last1=Filén |first1=Thure|chapter=När Ydre blev kristet och de första kyrkorna byggdes |title=Ydreboken |date=1960|language=sv|pages=147–160}}</ref> Likely church building followed a tradition that "the king" should begin the building, and then the local populace finish it. This was later codified in [[Östgötalagen]].<ref name=nykristet/> It is not known when the first churches around the lake were built. For comparison, the church in nearby [[Tidersrum]] was built in 1300, and [[Leonhard Fredrik Rääf]] asserts that the church in [[Sund, Ydre|Sund]] was built in the 12th century.<ref name=nykristet/>{{efn-ua|This church is described by Rääf as having stone arches, however it burned down in arson in 1631 and was rebuilt shortly afterward.<ref name=nykristet/>}}

===Reformation and wars===
{{See also|Dacke War}}
As [[Nils Dacke]]'s and his army advanced north through Ydre in 1542, local priests from Sund and Asby, and the populace in general, welcomed the rebellion as they were rejected church reforms imposed on them by [[Gustav Vasa]].<ref name=Filen1960dacke>{{cite book |last1=Filén |first1=Thure |title=Ydre-Boken |date=1960 |location=Linköping |pages=167–170|chapter=Om Dackefejden och då kyrkoherdarna i Sund och Norra Vi predikade uppror mot kungen|editor-last=Filén|editor-first=Thure|language=sv}}</ref> In particular, the priest of [[Sund, Ydre|Sund]] and [[Norra Vi]] preached uprising.<ref name=Filen1960dacke/> However local aristocrat [[Måns Johansson]] [[Natt och Dag]] who owned the [[Manorialism|manor]] of Ringshult{{efn-ua|Later the manor was renamed Liljeholmen and while it belonged once to the Ydre hundred it is now within of [[Boxholm Municipality]].}} sided with the king despite having a troublesome relation to him. He was put in charge of an army to suppress the rebellion.<ref name=Filen1960b>{{cite book |last1=Filén |first1=Thure |title=Ydre-Boken |date=1960 |location=Linköping |pages=274–275|chapter=Liljeholmen|editor-last=Filén|editor-first=Thure|language=sv}}</ref> As Dacke's troops continued their advance north reaching as far as [[Mjölby]] the area around lake Sommen was spared from war. Skirmishes did occur near Kisa, tens of kilometers northeast of Sommen.<ref name=Filen1960dacke/> Unrest in Ydre continued well after the death of Dacke and ended only after Gustav Vasa sent a force of 400 men to pacify the [[Hundreds of Sweden|hundred]].<ref name=Filen1960dacke/>

Despite earlier defense of Catholicism at the [[Uppsala Synod]] in 1593 church representatives from Ydre voted to adopt the [[Lutheranism|Lutheran creed]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Filén |first1=Thure|chapter=När ärkebiskop Abraham Angermannus höll räfst i Eksjö med Ydreborna |title=Ydreboken |date=1960|language=sv|pages=171–172}}</ref>