Idun_(magazine) Knowpia

*Idun*
	Title page of the 1910 Christmas issue
Frequency	Weekly
Founder	Frithiof Hellberg [sv] and C. E. Gernandt
First issue	1887; 137 years ago
Final issue	1963 (merged with Vecko-Journalen)
Country	Sweden
Based in	Stockholm
Language	Swedish

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.

History and profile edit

Idun was founded by Frithiof Hellberg [sv] 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 edit

^ "Tidskrifter Magazines". Foreignlegion (in Swedish). Retrieved 14 January 2017.
^ ^a ^b ^c 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.
^ 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.
^ 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.