Viktor Rydberg (1828-1895) was one of Sweden’s most important authors in the 19th century, between Almqvist and Strindberg. The novel De vandrande djäknarne constitutes the former half of volume III of fourteen in Skrifter av Viktor Rydberg (”collected works”), which appeared in the decades following the author’s death. The Novel was first published in serial form in a daily Newspaper in Sweden under the pseudonym “Agricola”, and tells about how two Students, during a Summer, wandering in the country, and about their Pranks and their meetings with people, and how this Summer changes their lives.

“Walthers äfventyr” (The adventures of Walther) is a series of childrens’ stories about Walther, a rather naughty six-year old boy written by Zacharias Topelius (1818-1898), a prominent 19th-century Fenno-Swedish author. The stories comprise chapters one through eight of volume four of his “Läsning för barn” (Reading for Children). They are generally seen as highly influenced by the author’s own childhood memories.