I haven't been writing much here lately, but some new things are up on Schaatshistorie.nl: Two videos from my new Evolution of Skating series: Bone skates and Archetype skates. Those links are to the English versions, they are also in Dutch here and there."Whither bone skates research?", a short article summarizing the state of research… Continue reading New publications
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Johan Ekeblad
Johan Ekeblad. Courtesyof Wikimedia Commons. Johan Ekeblad (1629--1697) was a prolific Swedish letter-writer who spent a lot of time on the Continent. According to the Swedish Academy, publisher of a great dictionary that's rather like the Swedish version of the OED, he was the first to use the word skridsko in Swedish. This word is… Continue reading Johan Ekeblad