Author: Grönlund, J. U.
Title: Lappska Minnen.
Description: Upsala, P. Hansell, 1848. Small 8vo. (17.0 x 11.0 cm cm). 56 pp. 19th century blue graind quarter cloth over patterned boards. = Two lengthy poems (the second titled: Fiskar-Lappen vid Wojma) being love-songs on Sápmi ("Lapland"), in Swedish. Written by the Swedish author, student of the Sami languages and philosopher Jonas Ulrik Grönlund (1824-1884). These poems won him the Swedish Academy's second award for poetry. Local names and words in a Sami language are translated or explained in foot notes. Boards rubbed. Lacking the front free endpaper. Inscribed in an old hand on the title page; a few light pencil marks, otherwise very good. Very rare.

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