Re: CHAT: Ave Maria

At 17:30 01.7.2000 -0700, DOUGLAS KOLLER wrote:

> > Wow, that must be the Karl XII Bible!  It has been doubly superceded, in
>fact!
>
>I'm quite sure I don't know. It proclaims to be a "Sjelf-förklarande Svensk
>Bibel", published in 1889 in Philadelphia (illuminated to the nines). How
>that fits in to contemporary Swedish Bible history, I don't know.
Fits very well.  The Karl XII was in force (the Bible, not Karl himself...)
from ca. 1700 until 1917, when there appeared a new translation that was
replaced only this year.  It seems the text you have had been updated
according to the early 19th century spelling reform (1812 IIRC).  By then
Sweden had already for some time had an Academy issuing prescriptions in
such matters...

>published here in the States around the turn of the
>century, presumably for newly arrived Swedish Americans.
Swedish Americans clung to old spelling, fraktur and all that. long after
it was changed here in 1907, and I guess quite a few clung to the old Bible
too.  Publishing activity was very high around 1900, with several
newspapers both in Chicago and in the older Swedish settlements.  BTW my
own grandparents were there for a stint in the 20's, but returned here when
depression hit.

>Konung Oskar II: Hans Lif och Verksamhet,
Oh yes.  King Gustaf V had half-siblings all over the place, or perhaps
they mean some other "verksamhet"...

>I had started
>studying Swedish on my own before this little coup, out of deference to the
>ancestry and the fact that I'm a linguophile, but doubting that perusing
>Swedish archaisms is a springboard into linguistic competency, I try to
>balance it by reading stuff that's been published in, say, the last thirty
>years.
Ta en titt på <http://www.molndal.se/bibl/xh.htm>!  Länkar med en svensk
flagga intill går till svensk litteratur på nätet.  Hela sajten är väl värd
ett besök: <http://www.molndal.se/bibl/default.htm>  Engelsk version finns
också, men är inte fullt så intressant...  Mest användbar om man kan de
svenska bibliotekens klassifikationssystem -- om inte se tooltips vid
bokstavskoderna på startsidan, eller klicka på
<http://www.molndal.se/bibl/subject.htm>.

For an English version of this paragraph mailto:bpj@netg.se! :-)





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