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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.
for obvious reasons still focus on military history, there is today a larger number of articles on the social history of the period. In this respect the society is similar to another Swedish society devoted to the study of the time period of a certain monarch, the Carl Johans-förbundet.
References.
- "Nordisk familjebok", vol. 13 (1910), col. 1133
- "Nordisk familjebok", vol. 36 (suppl., 1924), col. 949
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