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Caput Mundi: I was in there too: the analyzes of the book "The Tales of Ensign Stål"

Albert Edelfelt's Illustration for the poem "Sven Dufva" (Picture I)       http://kirjabloggaus.blogspot.fi/p/caput-mundi-i-was-in-there-too-analyzes.html Kimmo Huosionmaa Our national writer Johan Ludvig Runeberg used that term in the book named  "The Tales of Ensign Stål". Sometimes I have thought that is this book written in the same purpose, as the "Protocol of the eldest of Zion", what is the most well-known propaganda book, what was written by the political police of Russian Empire. Maybe the "The Tales of Ensign Stål" was also written by the same institution for supporting the emperor's policy in Finland. The "Protocol of the eldest of Zion was written for making the confiscating the property of Jews justified. Maybe the book of Runeberg had the mission to justify the confiscation of the property of Swedish noblemen in Finland.  And maybe he wanted to mention that he was in the same war, as this 1st. Lieutenant,...