Important addition. Here I will mostly publish texts connected to the history of ideas, but not many about the unicorn. I also write mainly in Swedish, but if I get really carried away (or receive a request), I might try to write in English.

Svensk och finsk nationalistisk självbild föredrar tragiska hjältar framom trist realism. Läs min essä genom att följa länken nedan.

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1/3 I am Walter Fortelius, a Finnish-Swedish scholar working in intellectual history, with a special interest in how tales and narratives illustrate social interaction through the ages.