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Thomas Malm, Photo.

Thomas Malm

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Thomas Malm, Photo.

Drakormens gåta : Om Draken eller Lindormen av Gunnar Olof Hyltén-Cavallius (1885), med inledning, noter, bildurval och efterskrift av Thomas Malm

The Riddle of the Serpent Dragon : On the Dragon or Lindworm by Gunnar Olof Hyltén-Cavallius (1885), with an Introduction, Notes, Selected Illustrations and Postscipt by Thomas Malm

Author

  • Thomas Malm

Summary, in English

"On the Dragon or Lindworm" was first published by Swedish ethnologist Gunnar Olof Hyltén-Cavallius in 1884, and in a second edition in 1885. This third edition includes the whole original text, with 48 accounts by people who claim having seen and in some cases even killed huge snakes called dragons or lindworms. Thomas Malm (herpetologist and human ecologist) has added an introduction, notes, illustrations and a postscript where Hyltén-Cavallius' work and the eyewitness accounts are analysed.

Department/s

  • Human Ecology

Publishing year

2017

Language

Swedish

Publication/Series

Årsbok utgiven av Kronobergs läns Hembygdsförbund

Document type

Book

Publisher

Kronobergs läns hembygdsförbund

Topic

  • Other Social Sciences

Keywords

  • Hyltén-Cavallius, dragons, lindworms, folklore, snakes, herpetology, ethnobiology, Värend, ethnology

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 978-91-86870-23-2