Idun (magazine)

Idun was a Swedish magazine published in Sweden from 1887 to 1963.[1][2][3] It was named after the goddess Idun, who appears with her basket of apples on its masthead.

Idun
Title page of the 1910 Christmas issue
FrequencyWeekly
FounderFrithiof Hellberg and C. E. Gernandt
First issue1887 (1887)
Final issue1963 (merged with Vecko-Journalen)
CountrySweden
Based inStockholm
LanguageSwedish
Idun masthead

History and profile

Idun was founded by Frithiof Hellberg and C. E. Gernandt in 1887.[2] The subtitle of the magazine was "A Practical Weekly Magazine for Women and the Home".[2]

Idun focused on literature and gender equality. Several poems were also published in the magazine.[4]

The magazine merged with Åhlén & Åkerlunds's Vecko-Journalen in 1963. The merged magazine was published weekly under the double-barrelled name Idun-Veckojournalen. In 1980, falling circulation figures forced it to a monthly cycle, and it was renamed Månadsjournalen (meaning 'Monthly Record' in English). The magazine ceased publication in 2002.

References

  1. "Tidskrifter Magazines". Foreignlegion (in Swedish). Retrieved 14 January 2017.
  2. Karl Erik Gustafsson; Per Rydén (2010). A History of the Press in Sweden (PDF). Gothenburg: Nordicom. ISBN 978-91-86523-08-4. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 February 2015. Retrieved 13 February 2015.
  3. Pia Lundquist Wanneberg (2019). "The Weight Attached to Dieting: Health, Beauty and Morality in Sweden from the End of the Nineteenth Century to the Present Day". Athens Journal of Health & Medical Sciences. 6 (4): 248. doi:10.30958/ajhms.6-4-4.
  4. Michelle Facos (1998). Nationalism and the Nordic Imagination: Swedish Art of the 1890s. University of California Press. p. 63. ISBN 978-0-520-20626-7. Retrieved 14 November 2014.
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