Magasinsgatan
Pedestrian-friendly old-town street of courtyards, boutiques and cafés, named for a royal grain store.
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This guide to Magasinsgatan in Gothenburg follows Bengt Lidner, the eighteenth-century poet born on this street, and the strange schoolroom episode that gave Swedish a phrase still in use. It weighs a boy's own account of his mind against the doubts it has always drawn, and trails him from Lund University to a ship bound for China. Best heard strolling past the courtyards while you scan the facades for his plaque.
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