Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Foreword V
3. Contents VII
4. Introduction 1
5. Phoenix going Bananas. The Swedish Appropriation of a Classical Myth, and its Demise in Botanical Scholarship (Engelbert Kaempfer, Carl Linnaeus) 17
6. Olof Rudbeck the Younger’s Oförgripelige tankar om amerikanska språket 47
7. Petrus Lagerlöf Instructing on Gothicism 63
8. Language Comparison before Comparative Linguistics: Theories of Language Change and Classification in Olof Rudbeck’s Atlantica 77
9. »Musta minä muiden nähden / walkia oman emännän, id est niger ego aliis, candidus propriae uxori videor«. Daniel Juslenius zur finnischen Kulturgeschichte 95
10. She »lät illa i sömnen«!? How Eric Julius Biörner can still be read with profit – and even delight 107
11. Ablaze in the Northern Sky Tears of Amber and the Relocation of Ovidian Myth to the Baltic Sea 137
12. Goths, Gauls and Franks in Antoine Garissoles’ Adolphid (1649): How to rewrite the ancient history of Sweden 175
13. The Fauna of Fallen Babylon – Carl Aurivillius on the Animals in Isaiah 13:21 and the Task of Bible Hermeneutics 187
14. Rudbeck and Oriental Studies: How Sanscrit studies transformed national myth 221
15. Index 243