by birgitta_hjalmarson_admin | Jul 16, 2019 | Journal
Eugenics. The Darker Side of Sweden. In August of 1904, the University of Lund gave its first summer lecture. The topic was whether or not the Germanic tribes had originated in Skåne, the southernmost province of Sweden, where Lund had been founded about 990, the...
by birgitta_hjalmarson_admin | Jul 15, 2019 | Journal
Fylgia Chapter One Excerpt Chapter One Excerpt I STILL GO to the grave. My younger self runs ahead. I follow, cutting through the forest and staying away from the country road. An old woman in a beret and a tweed jacket. Anemones cover the graveyard in the spring....
by birgitta_hjalmarson_admin | Jul 11, 2019 | Journal
She Sat the Whole Time Cold The castle in Stockholm was cold. Descartes had died here in 1650, supposedly freezing to death. Queen Kristina, whom he had come to tutor, would abdicate and flee to Rome. In 1891, when Victoria arrived from her native Germany, the old...
