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When God Save the Queen was national anthem in Finland

On 13 May 1848, at a student spring party, the Finnish national anthem (Maamme/Vårt land) was performed for the first time. Johan Ludvig Runeberg (him in the picture) had written the lyrics a few years earlier, and they had been set to music several times. These efforts were not particularly successful until the Hannover-born FredrikContinue reading “When God Save the Queen was national anthem in Finland”