1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Afzelius, Arvid August
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1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Afzelius, Arvid August
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AFZELIUS, ARVID AUGUST (1785-1871), Swedish pastor, poet, historian and mythologist, was born on the 8th of
October 1785. From 1828 till his death on the 25th of September 1871 he was parish priest of Enköping. He is mainly known as a
collaborator with the learned historian, Erik Gustaf Geijer, in the great collection of Swedish folk-songs, Svenske folkirsor
från forntiden, 3 vols. (Stockholm, 1814-1816). He published also translations of the Sämunder Edda and
Herwara-Saga, and a history of Sweden to Charles XII. (of which a German translation was published in 1842), as well as
original poems.
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