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unusual facts about Johan Ludvig Runeberg


Johan Ludvig Runeberg

Every time, he mixes double the amount of bark into his bark bread to stave off starvation and works ever harder to dry off marsh into dryer land that would not be as exposed to the night frost.


Seitsemän Veljestä

Published in 1870, Seven Brothers ended an era dominated by Swedish-speaking authors, most notable of which was J.L. Runeberg, and created a solid basis for new Finnish authors like Minna Canth and Juhani Aho, who were, together with Aleksis Kivi, the first authors to depict ordinary Finns in a realistic way.


see also

Vårt Land

The Swedish title of Maamme, the national anthem of Finland, originally a poem by Johan Ludvig Runeberg.