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I trollskogen

Sveriges Radio's 1959 Christmas calendar

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ10533251 ↗
Source-derived summary

I trollskogen ("In the Troll Forest") is the 1959 edition of Sveriges Radio's Christmas Calendar. For first time, the story was a work of drama/fiction.

Plot

Two children, Birgitta and Jan, go on adventures in a troll-forest. They visit Santa's workshop, meet Mrs. Claus and watch Christmas preparation. Birgitta and Jan return to the workshop every day, hoping to meet Santa Claus. Every time, he's out on a mission. They'll not meet him until Christmas Eve.

Editorial summary

“I trollskogen” enters the record as sveriges Radio's 1959 Christmas calendar. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what trollskogen, Sveriges and Radio's can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1959—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around trollskogen, Sveriges and Radio's.
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Why this record matters

“I trollskogen” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, trollskogen, Sveriges and Radio's provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 28, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q10533251. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1959.

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This entry incorporates text from “I trollskogen” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.