Talk:Erik Lönnroth
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[edit] Borges' Lönnrot
A fictional detective by the name Erik Lönnrot (no -h at the end) appears in the short story Death and the Compass (1942) by Jorge Luis Borges. In the style of Borges, he invents a character and reuses a wellknown surname, in this case perhaps that of 19th century philologist Elias Lönnrot. (In another case the fictional theologian Nils Runeberg reuses the surname of 19th century poet Johan Ludvig Runeberg.) It seems unlikely that Borges should have known about the young Swedish historian Erik Lönnroth at the time of writing. --LA2 20:41, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
