Got a fun question about 19th century Swedish song lyrics from my colleague's charming wife. Turns out the word she wonders about, a bird named "vakan", was last attested in a 1915 poem by a Finland Swede. Their dialect is highly archaic.
#language
Martin Rundkvist
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