Category Archives: Tankar från förr
Memories of heathland belief and cult in Norrlandic place names
How long have Thor, Odin, Seed and other Old Norse gods been worshipped in Norrland? Johan Nordlander's [...]
May
Gällersta ancient farm
Johan Lindström Saxon (1859-1935) writes about Gällersta ancient farm in the Swedish Tourist Association's yearbook 1930. Yet [...]
Mar
I've been dreaming...
A poem from Dan Andersson's collection of poems Black Ballads, published in 1917. [...]
Nov
Winter rest
From Erik Axel Karlfeldt's collection of poems Flora and Bellona published in 1918. [...]
Nov
Mandom, mod och morske män
Richard Dybeck's song, also known as Orsamarsch, in the version from Ny Visbok af B. [...]
Jun
Dalkarla song
Poem written by the military man and member of parliament Gustaf Nyblæus (1816-1902) when he was a lieutenant in the Dal Regiment [...]
May
To a youngster
Poem published in 1810 in the Journal for Literature and Theatre, to which Tegnér sent this poem [...]
May
The hunter's lullaby
A poem from Dan Andersson's collection of poems Black Ballads (1917), published three years before his [...]
Nov
In the long term
A text by the publicist and anti-Nazi Torgny Segerstedt from 12 January 1924, in which he [...]
Sep