Język szwedzki w epoce stormaktstiden: ideologia i narzędzia
The Swedish Language in the Stormaktstiden Era: Ideology and Tools

Summary/Abstract: In the history of Sweden the years 1611–1718 are the so-called great power era(Swedish: stormaktstiden), the period of geographic and economic expansion, as well as theformation of a romantic image of own nation, state and language. In this age, the foundationsof today’s Old Norse studies were shaped, and the interest in the language and history of thelanguage took peculiar forms in nationalist glottogony, as in Olof von Rudbeck, the authorof a popular work Atland eller Manheim, in which he pointed out that the Swedish languageis in fact the language that Adam used in Eden. Strong nationalist tendencies and a growinginterest in the native language were accompanied by the unusual situation of the publishingmarket in the history of the Swedish language, as this was the only time when native texts,not translations definitively prevailed.

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