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