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Nordisk familjebok
Nordisk familjebok (, "Nordic Family Book") is a Swedish encyclopedia that was published in print form between 1876 and 1957, and that is now fully available in digital form via Project Runeberg at Linköping University.
History.
History Print editions.
The first edition of "Nordisk familjebok" was published in 20 volumes between 1876 and 1899, and is known as the "Idun edition" because it bears a picture of Idun, the Norse mythologic goddess of spring and rejuvenation, on its cover.
- "Nordisk familjebok" first edition 20 volumes 1876–1899 (of which the two last ones are supplementary volumes)
- "Nordisk familjebok" second edition 38 volumes 1904–1926 (of which the last four and a part of number 34 are supplementary volumes)
- "Nordisk familjebok" third edition 26 volumes 1924–1939 (of which the end of number 25 and the entire 26th volume are supplementary, covering history until summer of 1939. The Spanish Civil War is covered until its end, but nothing on the Second World War