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Luther's catechism : translated into the American-Virginian language
Kleine katichismus. English
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- Creator
- by Joh. Campanius
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- Language
- Algonquian (Other)
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- [New York, N.Y.] : Swedish American tercentenary association, 1938
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- 2 preliminary leaves, 3-52 pages, 1 . ; 17 cm
- OCLC
- ocm11217621
- "This version of Luther's small catechism as paraphrased in Swedish and translated into the tongue of the Algonquin Indian tribe by Johannes Campanius has been printed ... in one thousand copies, as the first English text of the Indian catechism of 1696 ... commemorating the founding of the colony of New Sweden in the Delaware valley."
- "English version by Rev. Daniel Nystrom, D. D., and E. W. Olson, L. H. D."
- Reprint. Originally published: Stockholm, Sweden : Printed in the Buchardi printery with His Majesty's authority, by J.J. Genath, f. anno MDCXCVI.
- Contents: Foreword. --Catechism. --Vocabulary of the Virginia natives. --Colloquial phrases. --Mahaquassic vocabulary. --Mahaquassic mode of counting