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kareina ([personal profile] kareina) wrote2023-10-25 09:27 am
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early book on runes

 Did you know that the goal of the first ABC book in Swedish was to teach people runes? The first edition of Runa ABC was printed in 1611, written by Johannes Bureus, a Swedish polymath, antiquarian, mystic, royal librarian, poet, and tutor and adviser of King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden.

Johannes Bureus, 1627



He had an awesome beard!

Oh the things one can learn when one opens the Riksantikvarieämbetet web page looking for how best to translate that term that into English... It turns out that they have an interesting web page article on the history of the The Swedish National Heritage Board, which is one of Sweden’s oldest government agencies, having been instituted on 20 May 1630 by King Gustavus Adolphus.

Ok, but now I have the term I
 need, back to writing. One month till submission deadline. I can do this.

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[personal profile] beanolc 2023-10-25 02:34 pm (UTC)(link)
That's pretty cool! I love rabbit holes like this, but I truly admire your ability to get back to writing.