@mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy#olausmagnus dedicated his big book to his powerful colleague Adolf von Schaumburg, the Archbishop of Cologne. In the text of the book itself though, Adolf only features once. This is when Olaus mentions how happy he was when Adolf managed to get a shipment of Norwegian dried cod to the Council […]
@mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gyI'm going to be tooting a lot about #olausmagnus (1490-1557) in the following months as I read his enormous brick of a book from 1555, "Description of the Northern Peoples".
His pen name means Olaus the Great.* His real name in Swedish was Olof Månsson Svinfot. The last name means "pig's […]
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