ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

As Isaac Newton once said, inspired by Bernard of Chartres, ‘If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.’

That goes for this book as well. The thoughts, research and writings of other hard-working people laid the foundation for my essays about Sweden. Lawmakers, hymnologists, poets, and researchers in all sorts of fields have contributed to such an extent that I hereby thank them all collectively. No one mentioned but no one forgotten — as we say in Sweden.

Special thanks to my publisher, Philip Gwyn Jones, who encouraged me to transform this originally Swedish book about Sweden into a special English edition, and to all you brilliant people at Scribe, London, for your support and skill. Thank you.

—Elisabeth Åsbrink, December 2018