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Nationalencyklopedin
Nationalencyklopedin (; "The National Encyclopedia" in English), abbreviated NE, is a comprehensive contemporary Swedish-language encyclopedia, initiated by a favourable loan from the Government of Sweden of 17 million Swedish kronor in 1980, which was repaid by December 1990. The printed version consists of 20 volumes with 172,000 articles; the Internet version comprises 260,000 articles (as of June 2005).
History.
The project was born in 1980, when a government committee suggested that negotiations be initiated with various publishers. This stage
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Sources and external links.
- Hadenius, Stig; Nilsson, Torbjörn & Åselius, Gunnar. (1996). "Sveriges historia". Centraltryckeriet, Borås.
- Pritsak, Omeljan. (1981). "The origin of Rus'". Cambridge, Mass  Distributed by Harvard University Press for the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute.
- Nationalencyklopedin
- Rundata
- An English Dictionary of Runic Inscriptions of the Younger Futhark, at the university of Nottingham
- An Internet site on the Jarlabanke