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The Latin and the Swedish Versions of J. Widekindi’s Historia Belli Sveco-Moscovitici Decennalis: the Nature of the Differences

Johannes Widekindi (c. 1620–78) was a Swedish historiographer of the Realm. His main work Historia Belli Sveco-Moscovitici Decennalis was published both in Latin and in Swedish (as Thet Swenska i Ryssland Tijo ahrs Krijgz-Historie). Although the Swedish edition appeared one year earlier than the Latin one, the latter is in no way a translation of the former. The textological relationship between the two versions is an intricate one, and they are far from identical in contents. The paper seeks to classify and to explain the differences. They turn out to be caused partly by the character of Widekindi’s work with his sources in different languages (some were Latin, others Swedish and German), partly by stylistic considerations.