Ericsson, John Olof - Robin Hoods Äventyr
By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2020-06-14. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-01-07.
Beginning in the mid-1920s, Stockholm school teacher, poet, travel writer, translator, and writer of children's books, John O. Ericsson,[1] published eleven children's books on Robin Hood that were to become the most frequently translated, adapted, republished and reprinted oeuvre on the outlaw by any Nordic writer. The total number of printings in Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland is well above 100.
Ericsson's Robin Hood books were not only translated but adapted and/or abridged and had their titles changed, deliberately or by mistake. The result is a rather confused situation, which could only be fully cleared up by someone with easy access to all issues of the books. While IRHB feels fairly confident that the later printings, adaptations and translations etc. actually inspected have been connected with the correct Swedish first editions, this cannot be said for items not owned or seen.
Ericsson's first Robin Hood book, Robin Hoods Äventyr: Sägnerna om de Fredlösa i Sherwoodskogen ('Robin Hood's Adventure: the Tales of the Outlaws in Sherwood Forest) was first published in 1924.
Editions
Original language
- Ericsson, John Olof. Robin Hoods Äventyr: Sägnerna om de Fredlösa i Sherwoodskogen (Stockholm, 1924)
- Ericsson, John O. Robin Hoods Äventyr: Sägnerna om de Fredlösa i Sherwoodskogen. 2. upplaga (Stockholm, 1938)
- Ericsson, John O. Robin Hoods Äventyr: Sägnerna om de Fredlösa i Sherwoodskogen. 3rd printing (Stockholm, 1947)
- Ericsson, John O. Robin Hoods Äventyr: Sägnerna om de Fredlösa i Sherwoodskogen. [4th printing] (Stockholm, 1959)
- Ericsson, John O. Robin Hoods Äventyr: Sägnerna om de Fredlösa i Sherwoodskogen. 5th printing (Stockholm, 1975)
- Ericsson, John O. Robin Hoods Äventyr: Sägnerna om de Fredlösa i Sherwoodskogen 6th. printing (Stockholm, 1991)
Danish
Norwegian
Biography
- Wikipedia: John Olof Ericsson (in Swedish).
Other titles by this author
- Långbågarna i Inglewood ('The Longbows in Inglewood') (1928)
- Robin Hoods Hämnd ('Robin Hood's Revenge') (1934)
- Robin Hood och hans Männ ('Robin Hood and his Men') (1951)
- Robin Hood i Fara ('Robin Hood in Danger') (1966)
- Robin Hood och Broder Tuck ('Robin Hood and Friar Tuck') (1967)
- Robin Hood slår till ('Robin Hood strikes') (1968)
- Robin Hood och Fogden ('Robin Hood and the Sheriff') (1969)
- Robin Hood Finner Blodpilarna ('Robin Hood finds the Blood Arrows') (1970)
- Robin Hood och Lille John (Robin Hood and Little John') (1971)
- På Flykt undan Robin Hood ('Hiding from Robin Hood') (1972).
Notes
- ↑ Wikipedia: John Olof Ericsson (in Swedish).
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